'Mo Rocca 'Cross America' at Birdland 4/28

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to host America's comedic treasure Mo Rocca in "Mo Rocca 'CROSS AMERICA" Monday, April 28, 2008 at 7:00pm, as part of the long-running, critically-heralded and popular concert series Broadway at Birdland. Performing along with Mo Rocca will be Charles Osgood (Host of Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood), Annaleigh Ashford ("Wicked"), Stanley Bahorek ("Spelling Bee"), Julian Fleisher (singer-songwriter-host) and Brian O'Brien ("Spamalot").

 
Mo Rocca asks "Who would beg to differ with Lee Greenwood when he sang "I'm Proud to be An American"? No one, except perhaps those freaky secessionists up in northern Vermont. But sometimes in loving America, we forget to love our individual states.  Each has its own state bird, flower, tree, even soil and seashell. (Oregon's is the Hairy Triton.  Gross)." In "Mo Rocca 'CROSS AMERICA", humorist and actor Mo Rocca pays tribute to the specialness of our states.  It's an evening of fun, factoids, prize giveaways and song, as MO'S friends sing about their home states.  Country Roads, Take Me Home To ... California, Here I Come, Right Back ...Home Again in Indiana!  As any singer can tell you, a nation is only as strong as its weakest state.

Mo Rocca is a contributor to NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS's Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and is known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. His "Five Minutes With …" segment is featured weekly on LXTV's First Look New York. A former correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he can be heard regularly on NPR's hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me as well as All Things Considered. Creator and host of AOL's Mo Rocca 180° (www.morocca180.com), ROCCA'S blog provides side-splitting and insightful observations on everything from the Presidential election to pop culture news.

 PERFORMANCE DETAILS

When: Monday, April 28, 2008, at 7:00pm.

Where: Birdland, 315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves), New York City

Tickets: $30.00 + $10.00 Food/Drink Minimum (Per Person)

Tickets can be purchased Online: www.BIRDLANDJAZZ.com; or by Telephone: 212.581.3080.

 

Created by acclaimed performer, writer, producer & presenter Jim Caruso, BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND is a weekly concert series on Sunday and Monday evenings, showcasing legendary Broadway performers and composers, as well as up-and-coming musical theater talents. Started as a companion piece to the hugely popular and hilarious weekly impromptu variety show Jim Caruso's Cast Party (which follows Mondays at 9:30pm). BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND has recently hosted such diverse performers as Jason Robert Brown, Lucie Arnaz, Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, and Melissa Errico – as well as the benefit concert Chita Rivera LOVES BROADWAY CARES, which sold out two shows in record time.

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