Fans of Will & Grace are quite familiar with Leslie Jordan, who won an Emmy for his performance as Mr. Beverly Leslie, Karen Walker's uppity nemesis. Since 1982, the Chattanooga native—who's only 4'11"—has appeared in many major TV shows (Boston Legal, Murphy Brown, Lois & Clark, Dharma & Greg, Star Trek: Voyager), offbeat films (Farm Sluts, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday) and the southern-fried sordidness of playwright Del Shores' stage works (Southern Baptist Sissies, etc.). In addition, Jordan has penned his own plays (Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies, Like a Dog on Linoleum), which have toured successfully, and is also the author of a recent autobiography, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, which provides the source material for this new one-man show. Jordan discusses being an openly gay actor but also takes many side trips through his angst-ridden Southern Baptist upbringing, his adolescent sexual awakenings, his struggles with substance abuse and getting on the road to recovery. It won't all be effete one-liners, but expect enough of that to keep things light.
Mon., Sept. 8, 8 p.m., 2008
