Robert Klein & Freddie Roman Coming to bergenPAC, 4/3
For more than forty years, Robert Klein has entertained audiences, and he continues to have an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film. Born in the Bronx, he was a member of the famed "Second City" theatrical troupe in Chicago. He was nominated twice for Grammy Awards for "Best Comedy Album of the Year" for his albums "Child of the Fifties" and "Mind Over Matter."
He received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor, and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in the hit Neil Simon musical, "They're Playing Our Song." In 1993, Klein won an Obie and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in Wendy Wasserstein's, "The Sisters Rosensweig."
Currently living in Fort Lee, NJ, Freddie Roman is best known for his frequent appearances at "Borscht Belt" hotels. Dubbed "king of one-liners", he is currently the Dean of the New York Friars' Club. A master entertainer, Freddie stands at the peak of his comedy profession garnering high praise and huge laughs in any Venue he performs.
As the creator, packager and star of the ground-breaking Catskills on Broadway, he would bring the mountains to Broadway. The show offered a nostalgic and laugh-packed salute to the upstate New York region whose hotels spawned scores of America's foremost performers, writers and directors. His personable style and "everyman's" outlook at the world around him has won him both fans and friends around the world.
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