Joy Behar 'Lights' Up Lincoln Center with 'Winter's Eve' Celebration, 11/30

By: Nov. 10, 2009
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Television personality, Broadway concert vet Joy Behar is set to light the Winter's Eve Christmas Tree Eve at Lincoln Square, on Monday, November 30. The tree-lighting will kick-off a night full of free events at 5:30pm.

In full holiday spirit, the night will features free entertainment, food tastings, in-store activities and shopping around and about the vibrant Lincoln Center neighborhood. Stores, restaurants, cultural organizations and public spaces in the district will be buzzing with activities for both children and adults.

At the same time, sidewalks along Broadway from Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle to 68th Street will be alive with performers, street musicians, jugglers, stilt-walkers, and more.

The list of featured performers will include afro-beat orchestra Antibalas, The Flaming Idiots, indie songters and comedians KiDROCKERS, jazz musician Ben Allison, Andy Akiho Foundry Percussion Trio, the Hungry March Band, Harlem Samba, Alice Farley Dance Theater, God's Generation Choir, and Puppeteers Cooperative.

For more information visit: www.WintersEve.org.

Joy Behar is perhaps known best for her daily appearance on "The View", though her life's work has spanned the gamut from stand-up comedienne to her latest venture, "The Joy Behar Show" which premiers on CNN's sister network, HLN.  She has appeared on Broadway in The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken Benefit, and in the variety series Comedy Tonight. Behar has appeared in a number of films including Cookie, This Is My Life, Baby Boom, and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery. Behar has also made theater appearances in The Food Chain and The Vagina Monologues. Behar wrote a book of humorous essays and stories called Joy Shtick - Or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments?, published in 1999. She has also written a children's book called Sheetzucacapoopoo: My Kind of Dog, published in 2006.


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