Comedy Superstar Rita Rudner Coming to 54 Below in August

By: Apr. 16, 2015
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54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents comedy superstar Rita Rudner for three performances only, August 20, 21 and 22 at 7PM. This stand-up comedy event will mark Rudner's 54 Below debut and her first New York City engagement in nearly a decade. Tickets will go on sale to Club 54 members on April 16. To apply for Club 54, click here. Tickets will go on sale to our Insider list on April 20. To sign up for our Insider email list, click here. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on April 23. Cover charge is $55 - $65 (with an additional $5 if purchased at the door). $25 food and beverage minimum. Doors open at 5:15PM. For reservations and information, visit www.54Below.com.

"I'm so excited to be coming to New York and 54 Below," says Rudner. "It has been a while. The last time I performed in New York, Matt Lauer had hair."

One of Las Vegas' most popular entertainers since she opened in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. 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, even being named Las Vegas' Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row.

Rita Rudner moved to New York at the age of fifteen to become a dancer on Broadway appearing in the original productions of Promises, Promises; Follies; Mack and Mabel; and The Magic Show. While appearing as Lily St. Regis in Annie on Broadway, she began exploring the comedy clubs of Manhattan before making the full-time leap from chorus lines to punch lines in the early '80s. Rudner soon became a regular guest on both "Late Night With David Letterman" and "The Tonight Show." Rita's first solo HBO special, "Rita Rudner's One Night Stand," was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. Rudner's two one-hour specials for HBO filled Carnegie Hall in New York three times and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles twice. In 2008, Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS's first ever stand-up comedy special.



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