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John Waters is an iconic figure in the entertainment industry, renowned for his distinct and audacious style. As a film director, screenwriter, author, and stand-up comedian, Waters has made an indelible mark on pop culture. His unique blend of satirical humor, edgy themes, and provocative storytelling has earned him a cult following. His most famous work, the 1988 film "Hairspray," was transformed into a Tony award-winning Broadway musical, further cementing his influence in the arts. Waters' live performances are characterized by his razor-sharp wit and irreverent commentary, making him a must-see act for fans of unconventional humor. ConcertFix is proud to provide fans with up-to-date information on John Waters' upcoming performances. Whether you're a long-time admirer or a new fan, experiencing John Waters live is an unforgettable experience. Stay tuned to ConcertFix for all the latest news and updates on this legendary entertainer.

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Trash-culture legend John Waters presents sold-out Christmas show at Great American

By Dave Pehling

Updated on: November 26, 2023 / 1:21 PM PST / CBS San Francisco

Pencil-mustached film director, author and revered trash-culture icon John Waters brings his bawdy annual one-man Christmas show to the Great American Music Hall for a sold-out performance Thursday night.  

Something of a Bay Area institution despite his continuing connection with his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland -- Waters maintains an apartment in San Francisco and has been delivering hilarious, off-color band introductions at the annual Mosswood Meltdown punk festivals for years -- Waters has made San Francisco a regular stop for his speaking engagements and book tours.     

Expelled from NYU where he was studying film in the 1960s, Waters rose to notoriety thanks to his string of '70s campy midnight movies including  Pink Flamingos ,  Female Trouble  and  Desperate Living . Making up what the director termed his "Trash Trilogy," the films shredded the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship with outrageous dialog and action as well as establishing drag queen Divine -- Waters' childhood friend and muse, Harris Glenn Milstead -- as an actor and cult figure.  

Waters would eventually go on to more mainstream success with his later films like  Hairspray ( which inspired the Broadway musical and movie adaptation), the Johnny Depp film  Cry-Baby  and the scathing satire  Serial Mom , but he has remained an icon of trash culture between his b-movie appearances, books and  This Filthy World  is a one-man stage show exploring his artistic origins. Though he has not directed a new film since he made A Dirty Shame  in 2004, Waters has found other creative outlets.

Waters first started publishing books related to his films and collecting stories and essays written for magazines in the 1980s and has ramped up his writing over the past decade, including the travelogue "Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America" the memoir/essay collection "Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdon of a Filth Elder," and his first novel, "Liarmouth...A Feel Bad Romance" last year. Waters has also extensively explored visual arts with mixed media and manipulated photo exhibits that by his own admission aim to inspire disgust with the viewer. This year, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles staged an exhibition of costumes, props, scripts, drawings, correspondence, photography and other oddball ephemera related John Waters' filmography. 

A longtime champion of Christmas who curated a holiday compilation of bizarre and kitschy seasonal songs that was released almost 20 years ago, Waters promises celebrity blow up dolls and kindergarten detention drag shows in the latest edition of his onstage Christmas spectacular. For the tour's sold-out Thursday night stop at the Great American Music Hall , popular SF selector DJ Omar (Popscene, Leisure) warms up the crowd with a mix of left-field Christmas tunes.  

A John Waters Christmas: Let's Blow it Up     Thursday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m. $67.50-$135 Great American Music Hall  

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Dave Pehling started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and producer for KTVU.com in 2003. He moved to CBS to work as the station website's managing editor in 2015.

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We talked about Christmas with John Waters and can't repeat any of it in a headline

John Waters is like Santa Claus. Even if you're not personally familiar with his work, you know what his whole deal is about. This is good news for a purveyor of shocking moments like Waters, the iconic Baltimore filmmaker and author affectionately dubbed "the pope of trash" by his followers.

It is especially good news when he tours an annual Christmas show around the country.

"They know what they're getting into," Waters tells the American-Statesman about audiences at "A John Waters Christmas," a one-man show now in its 25th year and coming to Austin's Paramount Theatre on Dec. 6. "I don't think anybody comes expecting to see Peter Pan and gets me talking about reindeer dingleberries."

You heard the man. Waters, 75, has made a good reputation for pushing the limits of bad taste over the decades, mostly through films like "Female Trouble," "Hairspray" and "Pink Flamingos." That last one, a 1972 underground movie that's become one of the director's biggest cult sensations, infamously features a character — played by the late drag queen and frequent Waters collaborator Divine — eating a substance we're still not comfortable printing in 2021.

You know. What. You're getting. Into.

We talked with Waters over the phone before the Austin stop of his Christmas tour. This interview has been edited for length, clarity and taste, but y'know. Only so much we can do.

American-Statesman: You're touring the country, and I saw an event promoter refer to it as “the booster shot that you need.” Is going out after pandemic lockdown feeling like a boost to your spirits?  

John Waters: I lost 50 speaking engagements to COVID last year, and they're pretty much all back. Now I'm on the road more than I've ever been. It's a little scary, because all the planes are packed.

But it was great to walk out with an audience and see people, how happy they are to be out again. You know, I joke I'm addicted to the shots. I've had every one of them 50 times. I’ve mainlined ‘em, I'm skin-popped 'em, I even got that pill and stuck it up my (expletive) in a suppository. 

Speaking of our current disease dystopia: Has that provided you at all with some creative inspiration for this show? 

I knew that the Christmas show, everything's different. COVID has infected every part of every person's life. The amazing thing about it: It's the same, every single place in the world. It is a universal thing that that certainly cannot be ignored, and at the same time, has been joked about to death. But in other words, I'm trying to think of how it affected things that we don't talk about, like sex, Christmas, porn.  

Sex, Christmas and porn, the holy trinity.  What can people expect from the show? 

If you've never been, you don't have to have seen my movies. It helps. I only talk about them in a way that fits in with COVID or what's happening, or at the most, obscure kind of jokes about details of them that I've never shared.

It seems to me these films that keep coming back out — Criterion, God bless them, keeps rereleasing them, so they're easier to see than they ever were before. Certainly, all my films are pretty much, from "Pink Flamingos” on, they're pretty easy to see. They weren't when they first came out, and they're all still around.  

I think the best review you can ever get is that young people are still interested in it. They seem to be, so thank them for letting me get away with this for 50 years. 

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I mean, I just saw a repertory screening of “Polyester” the other day. 

Great. Did they have the Odorama cards?  

( Editor’s note: Waters’ 1981 movie "Polyester," starring Divine and Tab Hunter, originally was released along with scratch-and-sniff cards that synched up with the action of the film, featuring smells like roses and flatulence. ) 

They did not have the Odorama cards, no, sadly. 

They have them in the brand new DVD release that Criterion put out. ... Maybe they should do older films and Odorama. Imagine, what would suicide smell like with Bergman’s "Wild Strawberries”? 

We can only guess. For the Christmas show, what is the format?  

It’s one man, me, talking for 70 minutes with no notes, completely written, completely memorized. And then 20-some minutes of questions, which believe me, my audience comes up with some lulus, I promise you.  

I can imagine. 

I couldn't even imagine some of them. Once a girl said, “My father told me he almost went home with you in a bar.” What do you say to that? I said, "Tell him hi.”

You were very close to being her stepmother, maybe. 

( Laughs ) Oh, God. 

I know you have a genuine love of the holidays, and you devoted a chapter in your 1986 book "Crackpot” to it. 

That’s how it started, really. “Why I Love Christmas,” that essay in “Crackpot,” is really what led to me first doing a stage show about Christmas. That was the gateway drug. 

Tell me a little bit about the origins of this show, then. 

First of all, I grew up watching vaudeville ... I always liked personal appearances. And then I used to travel with Divine all around the country to colleges and introduced myself. That was really the only place you could see weirdo art movies (back then). ... We would cause riots at the colleges sometimes.  

I'm always a writer. I've written all my movies. I'd never make a movie I didn't write. I write all my books. ... I just need to tell stories, and this is one of the ways I do it.  

Do you find new things to appreciate, or denigrate, about the holidays every year?  

Oh, I hope so. I try to imagine how it affects things, like how does COVID affect sex at Christmas? And what are you allowed to do now? You know, when I grew up, people had sex with somebody different every night. Now you need five lawyers to ask somebody for a date. Things are very, very different. I always think I make fun of the rules of the people I agree with, so that's maybe why I get away with it. 

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I believe you've brought the tour to Austin before. 

Oh, yeah. ... The very first time I ever went to Austin, it was to give a show, and I met Tobe Hooper. It was right after he made (1974 horror film “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”). He gave me a skull that I still have sitting on my desk right here.  

Does it have a name?  

No, it's just like a little skull (from an) animal. But it was on the set. 

“Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is our sort of Texas national Halloween movie. 

I think it's the best horror movie I ever saw, and I think it continues to be so. 

Switching back to Christmas, how do you remember the holiday growing up? It's such a nostalgic time. 

It was functional and everything. I mean, I've said the joke a lot: The Christmas tree did fall over on my grandmother (like a scene in Waters’ 1974 film “Female Trouble”), but it wasn't that traumatic. She didn’t go to the hospital or anything. She thought it was funny later that I had it in the movie.

But other people have told me it happens a lot. It's usually liquor, or the dog is involved. I've heard some horror stories about it happening, and then some fall over and catch on fire. ... I think you should rig your own so it falls over right at the moment of everybody opening their main present. ... Put it all away and go on to Valentine's Day. Actually, what comes next is the Feast of the Circumcision, which is Jan. 1. 

Is it really? I didn’t know.   

I talked a lot about the Feast of the Circumcision in my show. 

I'm not familiar with all of the feast days. 

Well, I'll give you more than you'd want to know. 

I was raised very sort of Southern evangelical, and we don't really do that. 

So evangelicals don't get circumcised? 

We get circumcised. We just don't have feast days. 

I think it's extreme no matter what religion you are. 

Well, are there any hallmarks of the holidays that you find less wholesome than we’re led to believe? 

In my show, I go through every single holiday, how I want to reinvent them.  I think most of them all need reinvention. How can they possibly have Christopher Columbus Day anymore? I mean, he was a racist monster, exploited people. They would tear down the statue for him, but yet people get off from work for it? I don't know. 

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What about Santa Clauses at the shopping mall? What's your take on that? 

Children are probably the biggest spreaders right now, because a lot of them haven't gotten the shot yet. Basically, I feel sorry for Santa (with) thousands of little spreaders breathing on him. Maybe the alcohol will kill some of it. Don't complain if Santa is drunk in the mall now. He's trying to get rid of germs on your children. 

I know you curated the “A John Waters Christmas” album, a music compilation. Do you hear from fans still who say that's a standard for them? 

They usually play it before my show. I could do another one, but I wanted to do every holiday, like Groundhog Day, and they'd really be obscure. I mean, it would be easy to do a great Halloween one, but you know, Thanksgiving -- are there any songs about (sticking your hand up) the turkey? I don't know. I mean, that always given me the creeps, stuffing. 

It seems unsanitary. 

And sexual in a way that I never wanted to try. 

For this tour, you're going around the U.S. on all these December dates. Do you feel like you miss out on holiday fun with friends?  

It is weird. I mean, I used to always have a Christmas party. I'm not having it this year, because I'm not gonna have 200 people in here without masks drinking.  

When I'm in malls and in the hotel and go, “Oh, it really is Christmas” — to me, it's just fodder for the show I do. ... When do I Christmas shop? It's almost impossible to, and I can't lug presents around with me to 16 cities. I guess I do notice it going on, and it just makes it feel even weirder to me. I still like Christmas, and I still do it when I come home. I have Christmas morning and see my family and all that. 

But I don't really have time at Christmas. I'm like a drag queen on Halloween. I'm working. 

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When: 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show on Dec. 6.

Where: Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Ave.

Tickets: $20-$48

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John Waters: Devil’s Advocate (LIVE AT THE WEST) October 26th

October 26, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm.

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John Waters. Is he a cautionary contrarian, a reactionary radical, or a true Devil’s Advocate? In this all-new, fast-moving, part-confessional, part-inquisitional comic spoken word show, the filth elder known for his “transgressive” films and his “subversive” books salutes the new gender-guerilla generation of today for doing the impossible — actually making him nervous. Together, he demands, we must form a new rainbow of rancid colors and seize back the sexual revolution from the self-righteousness of the left and the intolerance of the right.

A new middle-of-the-road madness that uses humor as terrorism, wit as ammunition. A happy family of all-age, cuckoo crossover: hip-hop hippies, pansy punks, queer gangstas, down-low hos, and shit-kicking skeezers.

We’re here. We sneer. Don’t get used to us. John Waters – he’s the Devil’s Advocate and his questions must be answered.

Get set for a wild ride of the comically absurd.

There will be LIVE music to start the evening chock full of tricks and treats.

John Waters is a man of many monikers: The Prince of Puke, The Duke of Dirt, The Sultan of Sleaze. Any way you put it, John Waters is famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Serial Mom, Cecil B. Demented and Hairspray.

Devil’s Advocate is the next chapter in Waters’ rapid-fire one-man spoken word Vaudevillean act, This Filthy World, celebrating the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.”

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For years, Waters’ Christmas party was a highlight of the holiday season for those lucky enough to go – “one of the city’s most coveted invites,” as  The New York Post  once put it.  Longtime friends of Waters mixed with celebrities from his movies and the art world and others for an event that celebrated both the holiday season and the end of his multi-city spoken-word “John Waters Christmas” tour.

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The Eccentric King of Cult John Waters Plays Devil’s Advocate in New Solo Show

Vic Shuttee October 10, 2023 4:00AM

The entertainment industry takes its knocks, but at its very best it helps produce true originals. Few have flown their freak flag longer and stronger that freewheeling director, artist and personality John Waters.

From his days making uproarious movies that broke boundaries of both representation and good taste, to his current place on the throne of pop culture, commenting on the world with a sharp wit and a skewed view – Waters never misses. He’s written a new show called Devil’s Advocate  (previously: The End of the World ) and lucky for Houston, we will be seeing it on the perfect spooky night, Friday, October 13 , through Performing Arts Houston. “I didn’t even think about that,” the smooth voice snarkster says. “But yeah, we did the John Waters Camp, it was a sleep away camp and that would have been weird if it went all Friday the 13 th ! I am not superstitious, but I don’t purposefully walk under a ladder, you know? I don’t tempt fate. I won’t lunge after a black cat. But good, the witches will be out, this is perfect for this show.”

With a lifetime of wild celebrity run-ins, Waters always has something surprising to say. “I always re-write my show once a year. So you will be seeing my brand new show Devil’s Advocate and it is really new, really up to date and I have only done it once before at the John Waters Summer Camp to test it. It’s about how the new generation is even surprising me. It’s a fully written 70-minute monologue that I write and memorize, no notes. It is about everything  — my career, politics, sex, fashion, parents. It is certainly my opinions, and it is part autobiographical but also part futuristic, part advice, part me sharing how I have navigated my whole life to get away with it.”

In addition to the main show, Water vows to take audience questions for the final 20 minutes of the night – seemingly a brilliant way to get new material. “I have had every kind of question,” he laughs. “I’ve been doing this for 50 years. The strangest one: one person said my father almost went home with you from the bar one night. That was a new one. I said to tell him hi. I have gotten so many strange questions, I can’t even imagine. I say bring it on, I am open to anything.”

The acclaimed director of Hairspray and Pink Flamingos has been a reflective mood the past month it seems. Despite ups and downs, in September he was honored with a big one: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In his speech, he cracked: “Here I am, closer to the gutter than ever!”

On the momentous occasion, Waters is sincere. “The whole week was astonishing. It was at the Academy Awards museum. It was really thrilling and I was really happy to be alive to experience it. A lot of time you get it when you’re dead, if you ever get it. My family was there, my oldest friends. It was like being on the TV show from the ‘50s This Is Your Life – I was expecting them to bring out my baby sitter from when I was in junior high. It was really thrilling, it was very nice and dramatic and hilarious and well... it wasn’t funny but a tour bus blew up two blocks away in the middle of my star thing! I don’t know what happened, but fire trucks came and everything. And since my family business was fire protection, I thought my late father is making an appearance. It did go off and we heard it. There were fire engines and everything and lot of the fans posted me talking with a shot of the burning truck up the street.”

Between his contributions to cinema and memorable performances on projects as diverse as The Simpsons, RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Marvelous Ms. Maisel , the artist seems to be insatiable. He fires back: “Obviously, people say to me: haven’t you had enough? Are you so insecure that you need to keep finding strangers to tell you how good you are? All people in show business, there’s something the matter with them. Why do they keep doing this? It gets addictive. I’ve never been this busy in my whole life. In my old show, I said if I retired I’d probably drop dead and if I drop dead on stage, you can take selfies.”

He continues: “I like back-up jobs. That’s why when all these strikes were going on, I could hit the road and do my show. I could write a book. I could do Broadway. I have been doing all this for all this time. I don’t know if I could everything, but I was willing to try. Everything, but singing. But I do have two Grammy nominations for Best Spoken Word... that rotten Joan Rivers died and beat me, even thought she was a friend. Michelle Obama beat me the second time.”

But Water’s greatest gift may be the most obvious: as a keeper of wild and irreverent stories. With the randomness of a Madlib, Waters has seemingly interacted with every great creator of the late 20 th and early 21 st century.

Speaking with him on the eve of the New York premiere of the new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon , Waters was pleased to see his old directing friend again. “We know each other some — he makes really wonderful movies. Often I’ll hear the number one movie in the country and I’ve never even heard of it. But I think that’s more because I miss movie marketing, they don’t have it anymore. I miss it, because I vote in everything and I am obviously an Academy member. David Lynch is my sponsor. I have met everyone, but – and I say this in every interview, but I’ll say it again – but the only person who I haven’t met and I want to is Eminem. He has no interest in meeting me, but that’s why I want to meet him. I’ve been to Grammy parties – but he didn’t get nominated! Even still, I am not gonna rush him. But who knows? I asked Don Knotts for a date once, so who knows.”

The conversation ends, but ‘who knows’ is the perfect way to say it all. Who knows what icon of your youth will have had an encounter with the self-styled raconteur next?

John Waters will appear at Jones Hall at 615 Louisiana on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 713-227-4772 or visit Performing Arts Houston at performingartshouston.org $29-$109.

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Be inspired by the legendary filmmaker, author, actor and artist with John Waters tickets. Most known for films like Hairspray and Cry-Baby , John Waters is a multi-talent with a storied career making him an icon of pop culture.

Waters’ filmmaking career is most recognized for his unique, off-kilter sensibilities. His earliest work being considered in the transgressive cult film genre. His earliest works include the films Mondo Trash, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos.

Of his more mainstream works,  Hairspray is the most notable, as it has been turned into a massively successful Broadway Musical. Waters also acted as co-producer on the 2007 remake of the film. Other films in this era of his work include Cry-Baby (an early role for Johnny Depp), Serial Mom, Pecker, and Cecil B. Demented.  Hear the stories behind the films from the man himself with John Waters tickets.

Along with writing and directing, Waters has also acted in a number of films including a number of his own works as well as movies like Seed of Chucky, Jackass Number Two, and Suburban Gothic . His one-man show, This Filthy World, was turned into a feature film by Jeff Garlin.

John Waters Ticket Prices

The price of John Waters tickets may vary between each performance. John Waters ticket prices are based on the capacity of the venue, ticket inventory and the number of tickets you’re looking to purchase. Prices are generally pretty reasonable unless you are looking for VIP seating next to the stage.

How much are John Waters tickets?

Tickets to one of John Waters comedy shows can range in price for each venue and the location of your seats. John Waters live tickets typically start around the $53 range but depending on the performance and venue can exceed $129 per ticket. Secure seats that fit your budget today with TicketSmarter.

Enjoy laughing along to John Waters hilarious comedy for just $164.12 a ticket. On average, you'll pay $164.12 to secure your spot at one of John Waters hit live shows. The most expensive seats to the show cost $164.12 a ticket.

John Waters Tour Dates & Show Schedule

John Waters continues to be one of the busiest comedians in the entertainment industry. John Waters tour dates across most of the United States and some Canadian venues on the tour schedule every year. You may be able to catch a performance at hit theaters like the Terry Fator Theatre at the Mirage in Las Vegas or the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Columbus. Make you are there every year for the New York Comedy Festival . Don’t miss your chance to see a great stand-up comedy show in your city. Use the event calendar above today to see what is available near you.

Prepare yourself for a night packed with sidesplitting laughter because John Waters is performing 1 comedy shows in 2024. John Waters is bringing their comedy act to New York on April 22nd, 2024 at 8:00pm. This laugh-out-load performance is taking place at the City Winery - NY at 155 Varick Street, New York, NY. Tickets to this comedy act range from $164.12 - $164.12 a ticket. Get your John Waters tickets now because there are only 2 tickets available to see this popular comedian.

When do John Waters tickets go on sale?

John Waters tour tickets go on sale around three to six months before a tour is announced. Fans can purchase comedy show tickets after cities, venues, dates and times are announced. Use the event calendar above to be the first to secure seats when a new date is released.

John Waters Seating Chart

The seating arrangement for a John Waters show varies between each venue. Most performances are at small theaters and arenas. These usually have the capacity to seat under 1,000 to 3,000 audience members. Premium views of the stage can be found in the main floor orchestra sections. Great views are also available in the balcony section overlooking the stage. Or, be there for the Boston Comedy Festival . Discover which layout your venue is using with the interactive seating chart above.

Reserve a seat today to see John Waters live on April 22nd, 2024 at 8:00pm at the City Winery - NY at 155 Varick Street, New York, NY. Seats to this show cost between $164.12 - $164.12. Choose the seats that are right for you now because there are only 2 John Waters tickets left for this comedy show.

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Songs from the John Waters Tour Setlist

John Waters's setlist while performing in Sydney , NSW at “Riverside Theatre” included the following songs:

• Scouser's Lament
• Liverpool Lullaby
• A Day in the Life
• Glass Onion
• You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
• Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
• Working Class Hero
• How Do You Sleep?
• Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
• All You Need Is Love
• I'm So Tired
• Come Together
• Strawberry Fields Forever
• Nowhere Man
• Cold Turkey
• The Ballad of John and Yoko
• Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
• Crippled Inside
• Jealous Guy
• Watching the Wheels
• Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

Source: Setlist.fm

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