The Renaldo The Ensemble with Aldo Perez

The Renaldo The Ensemble is a New York City based band/absurdist theater collective fronted by renowned local impresario Aldo Perez. The colorful Ensemble visits opera, rock, jazz, tango and country, all with equal aplomb, as flamenco guitar, percussion, clarinet, tuba, and toy piano comprise the instrumentation for this virtuosic and unusual, yet irresistible group. Known for his infamously wacky, compelling live performance, Perez has held the much-coveted Saturday night residency at The Living Room in Manhattan for over eight years. Aldo Perez (Renaldo The himself), the guitarist, songwriter, and actor extraordinaire, is the founding member of the NYC art-rock band Psycho The Clown, and originator of performance character Renaldo The. Perez has composed for theater and film, and has written three Off-Broadway pieces to much critical acclaim; 69 The Musical, The Curse of the Mystic Renaldo The (at 3LD), and American Hallucinations. A student of music and philosophy, Aldo has studied privately with composer John Corigliano, and guitar masters Jorge Morel, Julio Prol and Tuck Andress. Perez also has formal theater training at Ensemble Studio Theater NYC. One can expect flutes being played through the nose, singing with razors, opera and cigarettes, and talking paintings in a typical set from The Renaldo The Ensemble. This Kurt Weill-esque, art-rock troupe has been called “wonderfully weird” by Backstage and “marvelously odd” by Time Out New York. Steven McElroy from the New York Times says of Perez, “Renaldo’s free-associative monologues and a series of hallucinatory vignettes mix with rock music interludes, courtesy of Mr. Perez and members of his band.” Jenny Lee Mitchell is Renaldo's opera singing, clarinet playing, ballad crooning, bongo beating maid. She has performed all over the world as a singer, vaudevillian and musician, and last year performed for thousands in Shanghai at the first International KimTom clown and vaudeville festival. In New York, she wowed audiences as the wind-up maid in The Curse Of The Mystic Renaldo The at 3LD, then joined forces with Perez to create TheaterTHE. European theatre credits include: the Dance Of The Vampires world premiere in Vienna (directed by Roman Polanski), Fame, Falsettos, Jekyll And Hyde, Ludwig II and Mozart. Critics have called Jenny “sexy and hilarious; she is like Frankstein’s creation from Lucy and Vampira in a maid’s uniform.” Rounding out The Renaldo The Ensembles’ line-up is long-time cohort Richard Ginocchio, who performs the duties of manservant for the infantile Perez, and bangs on various toys and percussion. Ginocchio was featured in Perez’s Off-Broadway show CURSE of The Mystic Renaldo The. New York City natives Perez, Mitchell and Ginocchio are joined by transplants Professor Matthew Talmage on drums, the inimitable Christian-rocker Johnathon Roberts ..boards, and Atheist Matt Muszynski on tuba. “The Curse of the Mystic Renaldo defies description…there’s live rock, hilarious vaudevillian slapstick, both high and low art, free popcorn, free regular and light beer, side-splitting ribaldry and, above all, the virtuoso performance of Aldo Perez, the show’s charismatic creator.” - John Del Signore, The Gothamist For more on The Renaldo The Ensemble, Aldo Perez, his band, or to see examples of their dark, creative genius, please visit www.TheaterTHE.com, which features their Videos, Music, Photos, Press, and Tour Dates.