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Year 28, No. 48
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Comic Lisa Lampanelli Brings Her Delaware County Symphony Announces New Show to Philly “Skinny Bitch: NOT A Stand-Up Comedy Show” October 10 - 13 immel Center for the Performing Arts will host a developmental production of a new onewoman show, Skinny Bitch: NOT A Stand-Up Comedy Show, starring selftitled equal opportunity offender, Lisa Lampanelli. The production, which is written by Ms. Lampanelli and 700 Sundays writer Alan Zweibel, will be helmed by Tony Awardwinning director John Rando. The production will play the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio for four nights only: October 10 - 12 at 8 p.m. and October 13 at 3 p.m. Lisa Lampanelli has become famous by roasting everyone from Betty White to Flavor Flav, as well as taking no prisoners on the fifth season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice. In her first theatrical production, Lisa will reveal the woman behind the comic, and her struggle with food, men and body image. In turns hilariously funny, surprisingly touching and totally relatable, Skinny Bitch: NOT a StandUp Comedy Show will show a side to Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean that few would guess exists. Tickets for Skinny Bitch: NOT a StandUp Comedy Show are available at $38 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce streets (open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Lisa Lampanelli has become a house-
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hold name as a standout contestant on the fifth season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice. Lisa appeared in the David Chasedirected feature film, Not Fade Away. She is See per formances of “Skinny Bitch: NOT A StandUp Comedy Show,” starring Lisa Lampanelli October 10 - 13. Photo/ Andrew Coppa currently starring as a series regular on Bounty Hunters, CMT’s first-ever animated show, airing Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. This Grammynominated equal opportunity offender is a regular on late-night television, the Comedy Central Roasts, and is a frequent guest and guest host on Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite radio shows. Lisa has also appeared on EXTRA as a guest correspondent, is a frequent guest and cohost on TMZ, and has sold out theaters across the country, including NYC’s Radio City Music Hall, the Chicago Theatre, and Carnegie Hall. Lampanelli joined the ranks of comedy greats with her 2009 HBO comedy special, Long Live the Queen, and that same year, released her autobiography, Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat and Freaks.
Nina Vieru performs on a Nicolo Gagliano violin given to her by a Foundation in California in recognition of her technical artistry. The maker of the violin is Nicolo Gagliano (b.1740-d.1780) who worked in the same small Italian village in the workshop of the famed violinmaker Stradivari. Photo/Joel Perlish he Board of Directors of the Delaware County Symphony announce the appointment of Ms. Nina Vieru as Concertmaster to the Symphony. Vieru is a professional musician who brings a wealth of technical brilliance as an artist and a broad spectrum of international performances to the symphony. Vieru has performed on many of the most prominent stages in Romania, always playing an original Nicolo Gagliano violin. She was guest soloist with the Galati Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra, and has twice appeared in concert at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Nina has successfully participated in more than 35 national and international violin competitions. She won the Temple University Concerto Competition in 2011 NS the
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WXPN Presents Free Funky Blues Finale and Dance Party Featuring Performance by Blues Artist James Cotton WXPN’S Mississippi Blues Proo cap off its year-long Misject is a concert series and onsissippi Blues Project (visit line interactive initiative supporthttp://mississippibluesproed by The Pew Center for Arts ject.org) in style, WXPN will pre& Heritage that was created to sent a free Funky Blues Finale and showcase the Mississippi blues as Dance Party on Friday, Septema vibrant folk art form. Through ber 6 at the TLA in Philadelphia, a series of concert performances for which doors will open at 4:30 p.m. The world-renowned, multiple From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Funky GRAMMY®-nominated harmonica Fri day host David Dye will spin player James Cotton will close danceable funky tunes that will be the free Funky Blues Finale and followed by an hour of toe-tapping Dance Party with a live perforblues music spun by “Blues Master” mance from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Jonny Meister, host of The Blues on September 6. Show. The world-renowned, mulPhoto/Christopher Durst tiple GRAMMY ®-nominated harmonica player James Cotton, who starting in August 2012, the Mishails from Tunica, Mississippi, will sissippi Blues Project (MBP) has close the event with a live perforbrought greater exposure for the mance from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. blues to audiences in the Great“Having James Cotton, one of er Philadelphia area, and has also the genre’s greatest harmonica been available online to listeners players from the 1950s to the prearound the nation. In addition sent, for the final performance of to WXPN’s year of special on-air, our Mississippi Blues Project ensures that it ends on a perfect blue note,” said Meister, whose blogs through- online and special event programs, NPR Music also dedicated a stream to out the project have helped shine a larger spotlight on Mississippi Blues. See “Funky Blues Finale and Dance Party” on page 7
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