Parrots at the Pagoda

Ruben Florés stars as the trail-flaming Puerto Rican female impersonator, singer and club owner Johnny Rodríguez—the older brother of the world-famous 1950s singer and bandleader Tito "El Inolvidable" Rodríguez—in a bioshow written and directed by Jorge B. Merced and featuring music by by Rodríguez himself (who died in 1997). Fernando Contreras, Bryan J. Cortés, Samy Figaredo, Khalid Rivera, Ansi A. Rodriguez and Sebastian Treviño are also in the cast of the show's world premiere at the venerable Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, where Merced is Associate Artistic Director.