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• Apr 27, 2024 - Apr 27, 2024

John C. Reilly recently planned a concert schedule coming to select areas in North America. As one of the best Comedy live performers currently, John C. Reilly will eventually show up on stage again for fans to enjoy. Take a look at the itinerary below and locate an event to attend. Then, you can view the event details, say you're going through Facebook and take a look at a great selection of concert tickets. If you won't be able to attend any of the current performances, sign up for our Concert Tracker to get alerts when John C. Reilly concerts are unveiled in your city. John C. Reilly might plan more North American events, so keep checking back with us for any updates.

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John C. Reilly came on to the Comedy scene with the introduction of tour album "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"", published on N/A. The song immediatley became a success and made John C. Reilly one of the new great concerts to experience. After the appearance of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"", John C. Reilly announced "Chicago - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture" on N/A. Its reasonable to say that "Chicago - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture" was not among the more well known tour albums, although the single did get a resonable amount of distribution and is a big hit at every concert. John C. Reilly has released 6 more tour albums since "Chicago - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture". With over 0 years of albums, John C. Reilly best tour album has been "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"" and some of the best concert songs have been , , and .

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John C. Reilly is Mister Romantic  | 

Pasadena Playhouse presents IN ASSOCIATION WITH LARGO AT THE CORONET:

Please join John C. Reilly as Mister Romantic for an evening of love, longing, laughter and song accompanied by the sweet of sounds of a crackerjack band including Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg, Gabe Witcher, and Charles De Castro. This very special theatrical event includes music, clowning, and connection.

Come alone, with a love, or with a love to be. But please do come and share some magic with ole Mister Cellophane himself. You might just feel a little less alone…

What the world needs now is Love, sweet Love…

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John C. Reilly

John C. Reilly has been acting in theater since he was a child and has been acting in films for the last 30 years.  He is honored to be working here at the legendary Pasadena Playhouse with Danny Feldman and the whole creative team. Some notable films he has appeared in include Casualties of War, State of Grace, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Thin Red Line, The Perfect Storm, Gangs of New York, Chicago, The Hours, A Prairie Home Companion, Talladega Nights, Walk Hard, Step Brothers, Cyrus, Wreck It Ralph, Kong: Skull Island, The Sisters Brothers and Stan and Ollie. Theater credits include Grapes of Wrath (Chicago and Broadway), A Streetcar Named Desire (Chicago and Broadway), True West (Broadway), Exit the King, Little Egypt (Los Angeles). He has been acknowledged by The Academy, The Tonys, The Grammys and The Golden Globes.

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John C. Reilly Joins Sierra Ferrell For Classic Country Covers In L.A. [Watch]

Actor  John C. Reilly  walked hard to  The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday to join singer-songwriter Sierra Ferrell for a pair of country classics. The favorite of indie films and studio comedies alike joined the hardscrabble West Virginian for songs by Hank Williams and  Ray Price .

Ferrell is known for her elegantly antiquated stage outfits that somehow meld old-timey fashion with a Tim Burton dream sequence, and she met her match with Reilly quite literally as he took the stage—presumably after standing backstage thinking about his entire life—with a matching black and red mariachi jacket topped off with an oversized sombrero. Amid cries of “Mike Honcho” and other references to Reilly’s classic 2007 music biopic spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , John and Sierra dueted on Hank Williams’ “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)”. The actor showed that his portrayal of the titular Dewey Cox wasn’t Hollywood make-believe, as the oaky timber of his voice created an idyllic foil to Ferrell’s mountain holler. Reilley previously joined Ferrell on “I Can’t Help It” last fall at the  Los Angeles Folk Festival (they matched then, too).

Between songs, Reilly beckoned the crowd, “The next time you see a busker, be polite!” referencing Ferrell’s years spent performing on the street . Sticking around, Reilly affirmed he did, indeed, want part of this s–t as he and Ferrell shared the single mic yet again on Ray Price’s 1956 career-making hit “Crazy Arms”, which has been covered by everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis to  Bing Crosby to  Waylon Jennings and now Sierra Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

Reilly was not the only special guest to appear at Ferrell’s show, as a man in a cow suit danced onstage during her encore cover of  Kris Kristofferson ‘s “Me And Bobby McGee”, and lent some great cowbell work. Ferrell seems to be making the most of her time in Tinseltown, rubbing shoulders with celebrities like Reilly and Post Malone the day prior, as seen on her Instagram story.

Watch Sierra Ferrell and John C. Reilly sing some country classics in L.A. Ferrell will return to the Fonda Theatre tonight, April 4th, for a sold-out show with  Sierra Hull following Ferrell’s free in-store performance at Amoeba Music in Hollywood this afternoon. For tickets and a full list of tour dates visit her website .

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John C. Reilly Wants You to Fall in Love With Him

By David Canfield

John C. Reilly and I have rubbed noses, but only I know that for sure. On a breezy March evening, the actor’s new alter ego, a smiley spirit named Mister Romantic, plucked me from the middle of the Largo theater in Los Angeles during his helpless quest to find a soulmate. He admired my height after I stood up, giddily fantasized about us spending our lives together, and asked my consent for one small thing: to touch noses. Mister Romantic’s face, centimeters from mine, maintained a warmly unbothered grin as he awaited my reply. I said sure. We leaned in. He gave me a card revealing the contents of his heart, instructed me to read it, and, essentially, proposed to me. I politely declined, returned the card, and sat back down. The show went on.

When I meet Reilly inside a busy Century City coffee shop the next afternoon, he doesn’t realize I’m the same David —a surprise, given our intense, prolonged eye (and nose) contact. My hair is a little flatter today, I guess, but I assure him it’s me. His bright blue eyes light up with recognition. “I did not do that on purpose!” he says, his tone somewhere between mortified and delighted. “I was moving down the row and suddenly you were there and you were smiling. I thought you seemed nice.” He preempts one of my lingering questions. “If I said, ‘Want to rub noses with me?’ and you said, ‘No, I really don’t want to do that,’ that’d be okay,” Reilly assures. “I would take that information, and see where that led.”

That’s the most thrilling quality of Mister Romantic: There is no telling where this thing will lead. Reilly has been mounting his vaudeville-tinged show, which intermixes loose comic routines with a musical set list inspired by the Great American Songbook, about once a month for a year now without promotion. “It’s this secret in town,” he says. (Consider us breaking that code by telling you that the next show takes place May 18, again at the Largo. Tickets are on sale now .) That will soon change as he prepares to take Mister Romantic around the country. He also had seven cameras and a crew hidden around a recent Valentine’s Day performance in Pasadena, and tells me a movie version will be released in some capacity.

Mister Romantic with his band.

The premise is deceptively simple. At the top of each show, a band—Reilly’s longtime collaborators David Garza, Sebastian Steinberg, Charles De Castro, and Gabe Witcher —quietly walks onto the stage. Reilly’s genderless and (I think?) pansexual Mister Romantic, hair crazed and voice kind, then pops out of a literal box from another dimension. He tells the audience he’s doomed to go back into the box if someone doesn’t fall in love with him that very night. He sings and serenades and thinks out loud to pass the time. Inevitably, he’s locking himself back up by evening’s end.

Seats have sold out fast thanks to glowing word of mouth. For the show I attended, the only empty seat was the one Reilly eventually stood on right in front of me (pre-nose-rubbing), and the crowd was in stitches throughout. Mister Romantic evolves over its 80-minute run time into a special piece of theater: fiercely funny, deeply weird, comforting if a little sad. Reilly at last feels ready to go public with it. “It’s really the only thing I’ve been doing for the past year,” he says in his first extended interview about Mister Romantic. “I kind of wanted to see, Are people even interested in this kind of music? Are they even interested in this type of performance?”

Depending on how you want to look at it, Reilly has been working on Mister Romantic since the pandemic, the mid-2000s, or the age of eight. Growing up in Chicago, he regularly starred in musicals as a kid. “That’s all I did,” he says, “just one after the other.” After high school, he was accepted into the acting program at DePaul University and shifted gears: “I just decided, like, Oh, that’s not what serious actors do.”

In his 20s and early 30s, Reilly established himself as an everyman with gravitas, with key roles in hit indies like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Boogie Nights. Then he was cast in Chicago to play Amos, a.k.a. Mister Cellophane. His soulful performance earned him an Oscar nomination.

“I realized, Wow, I can already do this—I grew up doing this—and not only is it worthwhile and a valid thing to do, but you have to be pretty fucking talented to do this,” Reilly says. “It’s not something that every dramatic Method actor can do. It gave me this deeper appreciation for it.” When filming finished, Reilly felt incomplete. He couldn’t just jump from movie-musical to movie-musical—they don’t make enough of those, though he’s long dreamed of playing Sweeney Todd—and he had a thriving film career. He’d awakened this quiet side of himself, and had nowhere to put it.

Even as he became John C. Reilly, screen star—taking on Adam McKay ’s studio comedies Talladega Nights and Step Brothers , leading a parody classic in Walk Hard, letting his freak flag fly in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as the unhinged newscaster Dr. Steve Brule—he started focusing on music. He formed a few bands, and at one point, sang Irving Berlin’s 1923 heartbreaker “What’ll I Do” at the Largo. He was moved by the experience of performing a song about eternal love, the same way he felt doing “Mr. Cellophane” in Chicago . So he collected songs like it, one by one, and built a set list. Two, actually.

Reilly had to wait, though, to finish the biggest acting commitment of his career. For two seasons on HBO’s Winning Time, he played the lead role of Lakers owner Jerry Buss, a process that took longer than he expected due to COVID delays. He filmed the second season finale (which turned out to be the series finale ) on a Friday early last year, and performed his first show of Mister Romantic that Monday. “It’s the longest I’d ever been employed by anyone, and I was really itching to just be free again and express myself,” he says. “And also, I just felt like the world had gotten so hard to deal with. I felt like there was this real crisis of empathy, or lack of empathy.”

Reilly carries an earnestness that’s exceedingly unusual in Hollywood. “All I’ve ever known how to do is be sincere with my acting, and it’s never let me down,” he says. “You might not like what it is, but you can’t say it’s not real. You can’t say it's not true.” This goes even for his silliest characters, like Walk Hard ’s Dewey Cox or Tim and Eric ’s Steve Brule. It’s a way of getting out of his own way. “I’ve always been someone who doesn’t really like myself, my own personality, my own thoughts. I’m always more comfortable hiding behind a character.”

As we’re deep into discussing matters of characterization and motivation, the café’s young barista approaches. He tells Reilly that his family recreates images from their favorite movies for their annual Christmas cards, and shows the actor one featuring him and his brother standing in for Reilly’s and Will Ferrell ’s Step Brothers man-children. Reilly compliments the artwork before assuring me of the fan encounter, “That wasn’t a plant.” He then connects that film’s endurance to Mister Romantic .

“So much of my own childhood is in that movie. You might not necessarily recognize that at first, but if you know me, and where I grew up, and how my brother was about his drums, it’s all there,” Reilly says. “Obviously, a lot of those stories were from me when I was a kid, but I’m playing a 45-year-old guy, and they’re ridiculous when you’re an older person. But my proudest moments are always when you really do put your own identity, your own experience, and your own feelings into something.”

Mister Romantic “came from a place of real despair and joy in equal measure,” Reilly says. His character arrives on the scene from oblivion, operating somewhere on the spectrum from angel to demon. After belting out swoony American classics as well as the occasional “La vie en rose”—Reilly, it must be noted, is a hell of a singer—he wanders through the theater, getting to know audience members and asking for their love. He fosters a strangely intimate and convivial atmosphere.

Recently, Reilly’s old buddy Will Ferrell came to see the show and approached him in awe afterward. “Johnny—no net!” he raved. “No net!” Ferrell was referring to the show’s delicate, improvised dance of taking everyone on the same surreal ride. “If you say to the audience, ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen next,’ it puts us all together,” Reilly says.

Despite his success and longevity, Reilly has consistently expressed anxiety about running out of work, or falling out of favor in the industry. He’s finding himself, at last, relaxing into a new mode. “It’s very empowering, just getting someone to agree to let you come and bring your band—you don’t need a producer, you don’t need an agent, you don’t need a costume designer,” he says. “It’s kind of thrilling to just be like, No, it’s me and these four guys I know.” This marks a sharp contrast from the typecasting he’s faced as a screen actor: “The business always wants to pull you back, like, ‘Well, can you do this again?’ I’m just trying to push it forward.” The tradition of vaudeville, that system of charging a ticket and performing a show and going from town to town, oddly felt like the freshest pivot, a claim for agency “in this age of diminishing returns for musicians and actors.”

But Reilly thinks about that “no net” compliment from Ferrell from time to time—the reality that it’s all on him, every show. “It really takes a special effort to keep the self-doubt at bay,” Reilly says. “There have been times over the past year where I thought, Oh, I wish a big movie would swoop in and send me off to somewhere else in the world to make a bajillion dollars.” After all, he’s not doing Mister Romantic for the cash. “I don’t really make any money doing this thing,” he says. “I don’t need to be any more famous. That’s a part of my life that I actually don’t really get much out of.”

I suggest to Reilly that Mister Romantic feels like a culmination of his work on screen and stage, a seamless and singular meld of his approaches to comedy, drama, music, and fame. “In some ways, I think that’s just panic,” he replies with a laugh. “You’re just trying to deliver for people. Some part of you has to be really like, Oh, fuck it, I’m going to throw it out there. What’s the worst that could happen?” Every night that he takes the stage, Mister Romantic learns that the worst outcome, for him, is unrequited love. The irony is that as Reilly locks himself back into that mystery box and the band leaves the stage, the room is filled with love—just what he was looking for.

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South Bay & Santa Cruz Wine Tasting Tours

Tours of 3 wineries! 

If you’re booking within 48 hours of the tour date desired, it’s best that you call to confirm availability for that date prior to booking. This applies to ALL tours. Please call (408) 316-5337.

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• Hour Glass 4.5 Hours (3 Wineries)

Grape Escape Wineries Tour

Enjoy the great wineries in the Santa Cruz Mountains, including a selection of 8-9 beautiful historic wineries in the area!

Pick-ups and Drop-offs originate in the Los Gatos and Santa Clara areas for this tour. Please call us to confirm if your location is within our area range.

• Hour Glass 4.5 Hours (3 Breweries)

Brewery Tour

Book our all-inclusive brewery tour! You will stop at 3-4 popular breweries in the Los Gatos area. At each stop you will receive a flight of beer to sample. Lunch and snacks also provided. Call for Quote (408) 316-5337

Saratoga Wine Trail Tour

Join us for a tour of the best wineries on the Saratoga Wine Trail north of San Jose! We offer both public and private tours to suit your needs.

Morgan Hill/Gilroy Wine Tour

Discover the most amazing wine with us in Santa Clara and enjoy a selection of 8-9 beautiful historic wineries in the area!

Pick-ups and Drop-offs originate in the Morgan Hill and Gilroy areas for this tour. Please call us to confirm if your location is within our area range, if you should desire a different tour outside of this geographical area. Additional charges may be applied.

The Corralito’s Wine Trail Tour (3 Winery Tour)

Take in the stunning beauty of Santa Cruz’s south coastal end with a tour of the famous Corralitos Wine Trail. Don’t miss this pleasant experience!  Tours available Saturday and Sunday. *Wineries are limited during Monday-Friday.

Pick-ups and Drop-offs originate in the Santa Cruz greater area for this tour – which includes the Summit, Soquel and Aptos. Los Gatos Pick-up points also apply for this tour. Please call us to confirm if your location is within our area range .

• Hour Glass 5.5 Hours (3 & 4 Wineries)

Los Gatos Summit Wine Tour

Discover the beautiful vineyards and idyllic grape growing area of the Los Gatos Soquel region along Santa Cruz’s southern coast with our expert guides. Saturday and Sunday only!

Pick-ups and Drop-offs originate in the Los Gatos and Santa Clara geographical area for this tour. Please call us to confirm if your location is within our area range.

Our custom-tailored wine tasting tours are fantastic celebrations for any occasion such as bachelorette parties, birthday parties, corporate events, and everything in between. We are not just your standard company that just drops you off at a bunch of wineries. Booking with us means you will get a VIP experience at each of the winery tasting rooms.

You will have professional winery designated staff on hand to serve and pour you their best wines and give you a behind-the-scenes look at the winery. And we start our tours at 10:00 a.m. to provide optional time to provide the best experience as wineries tend to get more busy later in the day and you will receive more undivided attention by staff – and we can make many flexible stops. We do not encourage guests to drive their own vehicle. You must arrive at the wineries at the same time the bus does if you have to drive. Add this to each tour page as we want to dissuade people from driving themselves.

We can host groups from 6 to even 20+ people on our wine tours in order to cater to any large corporate events. Just select whether you’d like a tour that visits 3 or 4 wineries! Book your wine tasting experience online today. If you are already a member of a local winery, please let us know so we can take you to another winery!