Joan Rivers Comes To Gramercy Theatre For One Show Only 6/25

Joan Rivers Brings Stand-Up Act to Off Broadway's Gramercy Theater One Show Only! Thursday, June 25.

Legendary comedian and Celebrity Apprentice winner Joan Rivers brings her live stand-up act to Off-Broadway's Gramercy Theater on Thursday, June 25 -- timed to coincide with New York City's annual Gay Pride Week. Rivers presents an evening of her newest and most outrageous riffs on Celebrity Apprentice, Hollywood, pop culture, celebrities, reality TV and award show fashion. For Joan's show, the historic venue had been transformed into an intimate nightclub with cabaret tables in the orchestra section, a full bar and waiter service. Rising indie drag band She-Dick will serve as Joan's opening act. Tickets are $25-$125 with net proceeds going to Rivers' favorite charities: God's Love We Deliver and Guide Dogs for the Blind. Tickets are available at 212-352-3101 or www.SpinCycleNYC.com. Showtime is at 7:30 PM; doors open one hour before showtime. The Gramercy Theatre is located at 127 East 23rd Street (at Lexington Avenue; accessible from the #6, N, R, W trains at 23rd St.).

Described as a post-menopausal Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers delivers a raunchy, politically incorrect evening of stand-up comedy. One of the hardest working women in show business, she is a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host, jewelry designer, business woman and mother to "what's-her-name" Melissa. She is on the board of God's Love We Deliver, National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and gives lectures around the world on suicide prevention and survival. With her trademark mix of outspoken wit, savvy and compassion, she continues to be one of America's most admired first ladies of comedy.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Joan Rivers "made the rounds" in New York during the '50s, appearing in a few off-off Broadway plays (including one where she played a lesbian opposite an equally unknown Barbra Streisand), surviving sleazy agents, tawdry clubs, and hostile audiences. A 1965 booking on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" led to her hosting one of the first syndicated talk shows on daytime TV, "That Show with Joan Rivers" in 1968. In the '70s Joan wrote the TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To (starring Stockard Channing) and then wrote and directed her first feature film Rabbit Test, casting Billy Crystal in the lead. In 1983 Joan became the permanent guest host on "The Tonight Show." Later, she headlined in Las Vegas, sold out Carnegie Hall, produced a Grammy nominated comedy album, and wrote two best-selling books. In 1989 the Tribune Corporation launched Joan in her own syndicated daytime talk show. She won an Emmy and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994 she wrote and starred on Broadway in Sally Marr and Her Escorts, for which she received a Best Actress Tony nomination. Since then, Joan has written three more best-selling books, maintains her own jewelry line on QVC, provided fashion commentaries for E! and The TV Guide Channel, and filmed a special for Bravo. Currently, she has two new books on sale (Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery and Murder at the Academy Awards). She just finished a winning stint on Celebrity Apprentice 2. In July, The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers will be taped. In August, she premieres Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress by a Life In Progress at The Edinburgh Comedy Festival. And in the fall, she will host the new reality TV series How'd You Get So Rich? on TV Land .

 

 

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