Terry Fator

Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM at Palace Theater

It’s a long journey from Corsicana Texas to the Las Vegas stage, but Terry Fator made it to the top as the headliner at the Mirage Hotel in Vegas for the past 10 years.

Terry can impersonate over 100 voices with favorites being Karen Carpenter, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Justin Timberlake, Elvis, Meghan Trainor and Bruno Mars. His cast of characters includes: Winston the Impersonating Turtle; the World’s Greatest Elvis Impersonator; Elton John; Vicki the Cougar; President Donald Trump and annoying neighbor Duggie.

But even with all his time performing, he always finds time to enjoy life with his beautiful wife Angie and to give of his time to the cause he passionately believes in, helping America’s veterans.

Tammy Pescatelli

Friday, January 17, 2020 at 8:00 PM at SOPAC

Tammy Pescatelli brings brassy sexiness with a bold female voice of witty sarcasm to her audiences, holding her own on the topics of sports, television, dating and family life using tongue-in-cheek humor. She is relatable to every audience member, male or female. After seeing her perform, nearly everyone wishes she was their best friend or sister!

Recently signed to Git R’ Done Records, the label of Larry the Cable Guy, Tammy looks back in time with her newest album, #tbt Throwback Tammy which debuted at #2 Comedy Album on the iTunes charts. “Have you ever put something away for safe keeping and then forgot where you put it? I did that with this entire album! It’s a true #LaughFromThePast!” said Pescatelli.

Pescatelli’s Way After School Special was filmed in early 2018 and is a highly anticipated follow up to her award-winning one-hour Netflix (now Amazon Prime) special, Finding the Funny.

Some of Pescatelli’s recent appearances include The View, Guy’s Grocery Games: Comics Compete and The Howard Stern Show. She was also recently selected by Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg to be a part of their Dirty, Sexy, Funny franchise that included a hilarious all-female slate of standup comedians in a comedy special on EPIX/ Hulu, a touring live show and a pilot for A&E.

With a slew of other accolades under her belt, including co- creating, executive producing, writing and starring in her own reality show, A Stand-Up Mother on the WeTV Network, Pescatelli has appeared on television shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, A&E’s Donnie Loves Jenny, Bravo’s Rocco’s Dinner Party, CBS’s The Talk, NBC’s Last Comic Standing: The Best of the Best, her own Comedy Central Present Special that won that year’s Comedy Central’s Standup Showdown and many, many more.

Pescatelli’s career jump-started after appearing, and being one of the Final 5, on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Her season played out to more than 17 million viewers, garnering her a mass of loyal new fans that found themselves alongside the others she had created by years of touring the comedy clubs. It solidified her as one of the sharpest women in the comedy world.

Pescatelli appeared a few times on the syndicated Comics Unleashed show and was chosen for their “Best of the Best” that was a world-wide top selling DVD. Internationally, she was featured on the Best of the Just For Laughs, in Montreal, Quebec Canada and The World Stands Up & The Laugh Factory in Europe and Australia.

Pescatelli’s material is a currently a fixture on the comedy channels of Sirius XM Radio and she is a regular guest of: The Howard Stern Wrap Up Show, Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty, Sexy, Funny (where she often co-hosts), TapOut, Opie and Anthony and Bennington. She has made frequent appearances on the syndicated The Bob & Tom Show.

The comedienne recently starred as the flawed, yet lovable lead in in That’s Amore, an independent “grown up rom-com” that will be released at the end of 2019. Other film credits include: Made in Brooklyn, I Am Battle Comic, Single: A Documentary Film and Everybody Wants to Be Italian.

As a regular on USO Comedy tours, Tammy is honored and humbled to have been privileged to have entertained our troops all over the world.

Randy Rainbow

Friday, January 17, 2020 at 8:00 PM at Garde Arts Center

Please Note: This performance was rescheduled from November 9, 2019. If you previously purchased a ticket for that date, it will be good for the same seat at  the January 17 performance.  You do not need to exchange your ticket.  If you have questions, call the Box office at 860-444-7373 ext 1. 

Randy Rainbow (yes, real name) is a comedian, actor, writer, host and Internet sensation best known for his viral comedy videos. His popular series of political spoofs and song parodies have garnered international acclaim and over a hundred million views.  He’s been called “the best thing about the 2016 GOP race” by Dan Savage and his musical tribute to the first presidential debate of 2016 (“BRAGGADOCIOUS!”) received 28 million views in its first two days. He was subsequently asked by the cast of TV’s Will & Grace to parody a song which they performed during a political fundraiser for the 2016 election.

Randy has also written for comedian Kathy Griffin and hosted and performed in numerous theatrical events for the Broadway, cabaret and gay communities, as well as for the Tony Awards and some of New York City’s most popular night spots including 54 Below, Birdland Jazz Club, XL Nightclub and Therapy NYC where his own weekly show ran for two years.

He’s been seen as a talking head on VH1 and has been heard regularly as both a guest and co-host on Sirius XM Radio. He is the creator and star of the long-running BroadwayWorld.com web series Chewing the Scenery with Randy Rainbow and Last Minute with Randy Rainbow. 

Bringing comedy to the stage for over 3 decades, SINBAD comes to SOPAC!

Ranked by Comedy Central as one of the “100 Greatest Standups of All Time,” actor and comedian Sinbad has had audiences laughing for over three decades.

Born David Adkins, Sinbad is one of six children and grew up in a religious household. At six feet five inches tall, Adkins made an impressive figure on the basketball court, and his first career ambition was to play professionally.

Adkins ended up playing basketball for the University of Denver, but he quit his studies just weeks before his graduation in 1978. He ended up in the U.S. Air Force, where he eventually wowed audiences with his comedic skills at a talent show. After leaving the service, Adkins pursued a career as a stand-up comedian. Along the way, he took the stage name Sinbad, explaining to Ebony magazine, “Sinbad was a leader . . . . He wasn’t the biggest guy, but he was clever and resourceful.”

In the early 1980s, he caught his first big break as a contestant on Star Search, winning 10 times on the show. Before long, he was an in- demand performer and landed a role on the The Redd Foxx Show, playing Foxx’s son on the short-lived series. He then landed a recurring role on The Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World, which ran 1987-1991. In addition to acting, he continued to perform his stand-up comedy. He became known for his offbeat yet clean approach to humor.

Sinbad went on to star his own sitcom, The Sinbad Show, in 1993. On the series, he played a single foster father to two children. Over the years, he also made a number of film appearances, costarring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1996 holiday comedy Jingle All the Way and with Phil Hartman in Houseguest (1995). Around this time, he also wrote Sinbad’s Guide to Life: Because I Know Everything.

Sinbad remains a popular live performer, landing a number of stand-up gigs each year. He also continues to appear on television and in films and lent his voice to the animated series Slacker Cats. He was a competitor on Celebrity Apprentice in 2010. In 2011, he had his own reality show with Sinbad: It’s Just Family, focused on his domestic life with his wife, Meredith, daughter Paige and son Royce.

Gary Gulman | Oct 21st | 8 PM

South Orange Performing Arts Center

Versatile doesn’t even begin to describe Gary Gulman, whose resume is a bountiful smorgasbord of life-experiences. Gary has been a scholarship college football player, an accountant, a barista, a doorman, a waiter and a high school teacher. Now, he is one of the most popular touring comics in the country today. Add funnyman to that list.

Boston’s Gary Gulman has appeared on just about every television show a young stand-up comedian can appear on, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman. While Gary has been a headlining comedian for several years, he is well known for his breakthrough success on NBC’s hit stand-up Showcase, Last Comic Standing. He was a finalist two years in a row! He’s a pro at leaving his audiences in stitches every chance he can

His charm and talent also caught the attention of Showtime, Comedy Central, and Netflix who have featured him in several comedy projects. His comedy album No Can Defend debuted at number 18 on iTunes and his one-hour comedy special, Gary Gulman: In This Economy? was recognized as one of the 5 best comedy specials currently airing on Netflix.  His new special It’s About Time is now streaming on Netflix.

Gary Gulman marked his 20-year anniversary in stand-up with the It’s About Time tour, selling out theaters throughout the country. It’s no wonder The New York Times wrote: “Gary is finally being recognized as one of the country’s strongest comedians.”

“Gary Gulman will be the next giant ex-Bostonian comic to break huge, CK, Burr, Gulman: You heard it here first!” –Village Voice

Don’t miss this funny man who will have you laughing out loud and rolling in the aisles!

Louie Anderson at Landmark on Main Street

June 16th | 8PM

Iconic comedian Louie Anderson, the three-time Emmy Award® winner, is one of the country’s most recognized and adored comics; named by Comedy Central as “One of 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time.” His career has spanned more than 30 years. He is a best-selling author, star of his own stand-up specials and sitcoms and he continues to tour the country performing to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.

In 2016 Anderson was cast to co-star along with Zach Galifianakis and Martha Kelly in the hit FX comedy series Baskets. Anderson plays the extraordinary role of Christine, the matriarch of the Baskets clan. He based the character on his mother and his five sisters who were all a major presence in his life. Anderson won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Christine Baskets in 2016. “I’m not as nice in the character as my mom was as a person. It really is an extension of my mom, Anderson says, adding that he always aims to make his performance “as real as possible” without “affecting or cartooning it up. It felt like it was divine intervention when I got the call to be on the show, that somehow my mom, from the great beyond, was finally getting herself into show business where she truly belonged in the first place.”

Sharing the ups and downs of his childhood experiences as one of eleven children in Minnesota, Louie crafted comedy routines that rang true for his early club audiences while reducing them to helpless fits of laughter, routines that led him from his career as a counselor to troubled children to the first--place trophy at the 1981 Midwest Comedy Competition. Henny Youngman, who hosted the competition, recognized the diamond-in-the-rough genius of the young comic and hired him as a writer, providing invaluable experience that soon put Louie in his own spotlight on comedy stages all over the country. Johnny Carson, the comedy icon for generations of rising stars, invited Louie to make his national television debut on the “The Tonight Show” in 1984, and the rest is history. Leno, Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, “Comic Relief” and Showtime, HBO and CMT specials followed, including hosting the legendary game show, Family Feud, making Louie a household name and opening doors for him as an actor. He has guest starred in sitcoms like “Grace Under Fire” and dramas like “Touched by an Angel” and “Chicago Hope,” and he has had memorable featured roles in film comedies like “Coming to America,” opposite of Eddie Murphy, and the classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” In 2013, he took a dive on the ABC reality series, “Splash” where he conquered his own fears while becoming an inspiration of hope. His standup Special, “Big Baby Boomer” premiered on CMT, in 2013. Also in that year, he competed and inspired on the ABC reality competition show, Splash.

In 1995 Louie put his creative energies to work on the Saturday morning animated series “Life with Louie.” The long--running series based on Louie’s own childhood and his life with his father won three Humanitas Prizes for writing on a children’s’ animated series, making him the only three--time recipient of this award. It also earned a Genesis Award for its depiction of the proper treatment of animals and, most significantly, two Emmy Awards.

His best-selling books include “Dear Dad – Letters From An Adult Child”, a collection of alternately touching and outrageous letters from Louie to his late father, and “Good-bye Jumbo...Hello Cruel World”, self-help for those who struggle with self-esteem issues, and his latest installment on family, “The F Word, How To Survive Your Family.”

When not in production, Louie continues to tour, traveling the States doing what Louie loves to do, Stand-Up Comedy. Louie again delivers to his fans his inimitable brand of humor and warmth

Celebrity performers RALPH MACCHIO, JANEANE GAROFALO, MARIO CANTONE and JENNIFER TILLY in this all-star cast !!!!! at Landmark on Main Street 3/4 at 8PM

As seen on Bravo TV, audiences will enjoy a night of non-stop laughter as they experience the jaw-dropping vignettes performed from celebrity tell-alls: How Vanna White flips her panels ... how Tiger Woods strokes his putter....Mr. T's acting tips..., to the most famous love triangle in Hollywood history (A "He Said, She Said" account ) - Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Other major "tell -alls" featured in Celebrity Autobiography include the words of Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, The Kardashians, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Ricky Martin, Madonna, Britney Spears, One Direction and more!

Our all-star cast is headed by creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel!

Jennifer Tilly, Academy Award nominated actress (Bullets Over Broadway), World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner, is the latest addition to our cast. She joins Mario Cantone (Sex and the City)Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid and My Cousin Vinny) and comedienne and film star, Janeane Garofalo, to act out the memoirs of Kris Jenner Kardashian, Melissa Gilbert, Justin Bieber and David Hasselhoff ...among others!

Running for eight sold-out years in New York City, Celebrity Autobiography won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and is one of the most critically acclaimed, most "buzzed about shows" of recent years ( Entertainment Weekly). Created by Emmy Award-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography has also been profiled in virtually every major media outlet including Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, NPR's All Things Considered and The View. The show was the toast of the Edinburgh Festival , London's West End and Australia's Sydney Opera House. It has garnered rave reviews across the board-- from The New York Times to Rolling Stone to Time Magazine.

Audiences will leave the show asking "Did those celebrities really write that?" The answer is: You could not make this stuff up!

With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country finding success in film, television and radio as well as on the live stage. He is host of the hit podcast and SiriusXM show, Come to Papa, a weekly, hour-long show featuring Tom Papa exploring the funny side of life, occasionally with guests like Mel Brooks, Ray Romano, Carl Reiner and Jerry Seinfeld.

Several times a year in New York and Los Angeles, Tom hosts a live Come To Papa scripted radio play that is recorded live for the podcast and SiriusXM show.  With residencies at Largo in Los Angeles and The Village Underground in NYC, Tom Papa writes the script for each live radio show and casts top actors and comedians to play the roles or perform stand-up, all backed by a live band. Past performers have included Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman, Joel McHale, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Kevin Nealon, Kevin Pollack and many more.

The New Jersey born-and-raised comedian has guest starred on The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land, on Colin Quinn’s web series, Cop Show, and in two episodes of Steven Soderbergh’s Cinemax series, The Knick. He appears in Chris Rock’s film, Top Five, in Analyze That, opposite Robert DeNiro, and alongside Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the HBO film, Behind the Candelabra which was directed by Steven Soderbergh and won 11 Emmys. He starred opposite Matt Damon in the Steven Soderbergh film, The Informant, and starred opposite Paul Giamatti in Rob Zombie’s animated feature, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, as the voice of El Superbeasto.

Tom Papa was also seen in the hit Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer. Personally chosen by Jerry Seinfeld, he hosted the NBC series, The Marriage Ref, which ran for two seasons.  He had a recurring role opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS series, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and starred in his own NBC series, Come to Papa.

Opening Artist: Stavros Halkias

Tom Papa Live at Landmark on Main Street

With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country, finding success in film, television and radio as well as on the live stage. He is host of the hit podcast and SiriusXM show, Come to Papa, a weekly, hour-long show with guests like Mel Brooks, Ray Romano, Carl Reiner and Jerry Seinfeld.
Several times a year, Tom hosts a live Come To Papa scripted radio play that is recorded live for the podcast and SiriusXM show. With residencies at Largo in Los Angeles and The Village Underground in NYC, Tom Papa writes the script for each live radio show and casts top actors and comedians to play the roles or perform stand-up, all backed by a live band. Past performers have included Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman, Joel McHale, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Kevin Nealon, Kevin Pollack and many more.
The New Jersey born-and-raised comedian has guest starred on The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land, on Colin Quinn's web series, Cop Show, and in two episodes of Steven Soderbergh's Cinemax series, The Knick. He appears in Chris Rock's film, Top Five, in Analyze That, opposite Robert DeNiro, and alongside Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the HBO film, Behind the Candelabra which was directed by Steven Soderbergh and won 11 Emmys. He starred opposite Matt Damon in the Steven Soderbergh film, The Informant, and starred opposite Paul Giamatti in Rob Zombie's animated feature, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, as the voice of El Superbeasto.
Tom Papa was also seen in the hit Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer. Personally chosen by Jerry Seinfeld, he hosted the NBC series, The Marriage Ref, which ran for two seasons. He had a recurring role opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS series, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and starred in his own NBC series, Come to Papa.

Tom's newest TV special, Human Mule, premieres on EPIX-TV Friday, December 9. Click the link for a quick preview, followed by a clip of Tom Papa Live at the Gotham Comedy Club.