Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias Joins Legendary List of Performers With Dodger Stadium Performances
variety.comAndrew Barker Senior Features WriterLos Angeles has no shortage of historic, culturally monolithic concert venues. But none have as oversized and as specific a place in local culture as Dodger Stadium, where Gabriel Iglesias will soon become the first stand-up comic to perform two sold-out shows.From its sheer size, to its panoramic views of the entire city, to its status as the third-oldest Major League Baseball park still in use, there’s something quintessentially Los Angeles about the venue.
And its history as a sports venue encompasses so much of the city’s character, from the tragic — such as the Chavez Ravine Latino community that was infamously evicted in the decade prior to the stadium’s construction — to the indelible, including Kirk Gibson’s famous World Series walk-off home run straight into the right field bleachers in 1988.
The Hollywood Bowl may be classier; the Troubadour may have a deeper history; the Rose Bowl may be bigger; and the Coliseum may be older.
But the stadium is second to none in terms of local lore. Inaugurated in 1962 (the Dodgers themselves spent their first years at the Coliseum after moving from Brooklyn to L.A.
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