Margaret Cho
June 24 - Friday 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.
The Paramount - $27-$42.50 at www.ticketmaster.com or
at the Paramount box office

Margaret Cho makes another highly welcomed return to Seattle with her new Assassin tour, featuring Cho's groundbreaking, controversial and hilarious brand of comedy. The show is tailored after her last small tour, "State of Emergency," where she changes the show throughout the tour to comment on the daily changes in the world of politics and pop culture. Says Cho, "It's a raw interpretation of what's happening daily in our ever-evolving or devolving state of the union."

If you are unfamiliar with the brilliant Margaret Cho it would be a good idea to check out her first concert film, I'm The One That I Want which chronicles the life and death of her ill-fated sitcom "All-American Girl." The show perfectly represents everything about Cho that her fans have come to love. It's a social comment on race, gender, sexuality, hope and dreams
which is masterfully unfolded as a story that will keep you in stitches through the entire performance. Her next tour and concert film was the hilarious Notorious C.H.O. that brought Cho even more critical acclaim and showed that she had indeed acquired an enormous fan base, with a 37 city tour that ended with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. Aside from her concert performances, she has recently written and starred in a film that should release in late 2005, titled BamBam and Celeste. Cho describes the comedy
as a "fag and fag-hag dumb and dumber." Check out Margaret's website at www.margaretcho.com for more on what should be a hilarious fall indie hit.

Margaret Cho is a truly unique performer who has insisted on being herself and has refused to be made over by mainstream media. Her audience consists mostly of anyone who feels invisible and unrecognized by the world; gays and lesbians, Asians, people of
color, people of weight and anyone else who tries to stick to their own identity and not the image that we are force-fed. It's extremely exciting to have her here to kick-off our Seattle Pride Weekend and a fantastic way to start your Friday night celebrating. And who knows...maybe we will be graced with Margaret's presence at one of the gay bars later that
night...let's keep our fingers crossed.

Don't forget that there is some construction around the Paramount right now so allow some time for parking if you are driving in. Visit www.theparamount.com for parking info.

Pre-concert DVD recommendations: I'm The One That I Want, Notorious C.H.O. and
Revolution