Comedy & Pop Culture Icons Cheech & Chong Confirm 2010 North American Tour: Cheech & Chong: Get It Legal
November 16 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
'Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin are the rock gods of stoner comedy.'
Cleveland Plain Dealer LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Comedy
visionaries Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong announce their 2010 North
American Tour, Cheech & Chong: Get It Legal, partnering with
the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) to promote policy change through
laughter. The Live Nation-produced tour will kick off on January
16, 2010 in Boulder, Colorado at the Macky Auditorium. Tickets for
this must-see comedy tour of the year go on sale in select markets
beginning at 4:20 p.m. on November 20, 2009 at LiveNation.com.
Cheech & Chong: Get It Legal is the follow-up to their hugely
successful reunion tour, Cheech & Chong: Light Up America,
where they performed together for the first time in over 25 years.
The pop culture duo performed for more than 100 audiences and
quickly became one of the most sought after shows of 2008-2009.
Additionally, their performance in San Antonio, Texas was filmed by
the Weinstein Company and will be released as Cheech and Chong's:
Hey Watch This on 4/20 of next year. "We had an amazing time last
year reconnecting with each other and our fans in a way that felt
like it was part of our DNA, we were meant to be together," said
Cheech Marin. "In 2010 we are looking forward to doing more classic
material that people haven't seen for years and years, performing
more of our songs and introducing some new bits. We've had material
brewing separately for the past 25 years," said Tommy Chong. The
Cheech & Chong: Get It Legal tour is scheduled to make 17 stops
across North America including Boulder, Indianapolis, Baltimore,
Bellingham, Portland, Santa Barbara, Tampa, Minneapolis, Rockford,
Detroit, Louisville, DC, Bakersfield, Phoenix, and Fort Worth with
Canadian stops in Regina, and Saskatoon. Additional dates to be
announced soon. Chong's wife and comedy partner, Shelby Chong, will
open all dates on the tour as well as DJ-Joey Mojo. Fan club
members will have access to presale tickets beginning November 17th
at CheechandChongTour.com. Successful beyond their wildest dreams,
Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong defined an era with their
hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred
comedy routines. Together, they represent a lifestyle and are the
originators of the "stoner film" as a genre. Their phenomenal
success included nine hit comedy albums and eight hit films,
breaking box office records, shattering comedy album sales,
garnering multiple Grammy nominations and mesmerizing fans for more
than a decade. Because of the recent attention surrounding the laws
in respect to marijuana, Cheech and Chong decided to name their
upcoming tour "Get It Legal" in order to raise awareness for this
important topic. By teaming up with a marijuana policy reform group
such as MPP, Cheech and Chong are fusing comedy and activism as a
means of bringing attention to the harm caused by marijuana
prohibition and the urgent need for different, more sensible
marijuana laws. "Want to make a change? Come to a Cheech and Chong
show," says Tommy Chong. "It's time to get it legal, before it's
too late." Complete ticket, tour and on sale information is
available at CheechandChongTour.com and LiveNation.com. About the
Marijuana Policy Project With more than 29,000 members and 100,000
e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the
largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States.
MPP believes the best way to minimize the harm associated with
marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.
Additional information about MPP can be found at
http://www.mpp.org/. About Live Nation Live Nation's mission is to
maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is
producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our
global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live
concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for
1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over
50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique
visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert
business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and
building the industry's first artist-to-fan vertically integrated
concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles,
California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading
under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company,
please visit http://www.livenation.com/investors. CHEECH &
CHONG: GET IT LEGAL 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES Jan-16 Boulder,
CO Macky Auditorium Concert Hall Jan-22 Indianapolis, IN Murat
Theatre Jan-23 Baltimore, MD Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Jan-30
Saskatoon, SK TCU Place Jan-31 Regina, SK Conexus Arts Centre
Feb-11 Bellingham, WA Mount Baker Theatre Feb-12 Portland, OR
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Mar-5 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington
Theatre Mar-12 Tampa, FL Tampa Performing Arts Center Mar-26
Minneapolis, MN State Theatre Mar-27 Rockford, IL Coronado
Performing Arts Center Apr-03 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater Apr-09
Louisville, KY Palace Theatre Apr-10 Washington, DC Warner Theatre
Apr-23 Bakersfield, CA Fox Theatre Apr-24 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
Apr-30 Ft. Worth, TX Bass Performance Hall DATASOURCE: Live Nation
CONTACT: Stacey Pokluda of Integrated PR, +1-323-446-8669, ext. 1,
, for Cheech & Chong; or Mike Meno of Marijuana Policy Project,
+1-202-462-5747, ext. 2030, ; or Liz Morentin of Live Nation,
+1-310-975-6860, Web Site: http://www.livenation.com/
http://www.mpp.org/
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