(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) presents Rita Rudner and Louie Anderson, Saturday May 2nd 2015 at 8PM. Purchase tickets to see the two comedic talents in one night at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.
Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner brings her trademark epigrammatic style and longest-running Las Vegas solo running comedy show to the bergenPAC stage. Over the course of a fourteen year run and 2,000 plus shows, she has sold one and a half million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. She has been named Las Vegas’s Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet’s Woman Of The Year Award.
A frequent guest on both Late Night With Letterman and The Tonight Show, Rita also appeared often on HBO. She performed all over the country, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles twice. She also performed sell-out tours of Australia and England.
Rita has written five books, including two fiction novels. She has also collaborated on successful screenplays with her writer/producer husband Martin Bergman.
Louie Anderson
Louie Anderson is one of the most versatile and successful comedians working in Hollywood today. Sharing the ups and downs of his childhood experiences as one of eleven children in Minnesota, Louie has crafted comedy routines that ring true for his audiences while reducing them to helpless fits of laughter.
Louie has performed on Johnny Carson, Leno, Letterman, "Comic Relief", Showtime, and HBO. He has guest-starred in sitcoms like "Grace Under Fire" and dramas like "Touched by an Angel" and "Chicago Hope," and he has had memorable featured roles in film comedies like "Coming to America," opposite of Eddie Murphy, and the classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." He is also host of the hilarious "Comedy Showcase," the late-night series that follows "Saturday Night Live," and “Life with Louie,” his stint as host of “Family Feud”, as well as writing best-selling books, and performing for standing room only crowds in Las Vegas, all with his trademark touching and outrageous humor.
About bergenPAC
Founded in 2003, the 1,367-seat Bergen Performing Arts Center, or bergenPAC, is the area’s cultural mecca. Housed in a historic Art Deco-style theater, located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, bergenPAC boasts one of the finest acoustic halls in the United States, bergenPAC attracts a stellar roster of world-class entertainment. The jewel in our crown is The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC – the innovative, educational performing arts initiative that reaches more than 30,000 students annually. The Performing Arts School provides community youth, age 2 months to 21 years, with unique, “hands-on” training in music, dance and theater by industry professionals. It is through the ongoing generosity of sponsors, donors, members, and patrons that the not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation bergenPAC and The Performing Arts School are able to thrive and enrich our community.
