Joan Rivers Takes The Stage At Andrew Jackson Hall 2/4/2011

Comedic icon Joan Rivers will grace the stage of Andrew Jackson Hall for one performance only, February 4, 2011.

An entertainment legend of unparalleled accomplishment and talent, Joan Rivers is an internationally renowned comedienne, Emmy-winning television talk show host, Tony-nominated actress, best-selling author, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, syndicated radio host, jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur, red carpet fashion laureate, businesswoman -- and most importantly, a proud mother and grandmother.

Joan Rivers is a true pioneer: she created her own brand of irreverent, unconventional comedy and forged her remarkable rise to stardom in the entertainment world. Enduring humiliation and deprivation for nearly a decade playing tawdry clubs, Borscht Belt hotels, and Greenwich Village cabarets ("I was insanely persistent," she says.), her career skyrocketed in 1968 when she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Within three years she was hosting That Show with Joan Rivers, one of the first syndicated daytime shows. She soon made television history as the first sole guest host of The Tonight Show. Her own The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers helped launch the Fox Network in 1986. In 1989, she returned to daytime television with The Joan Rivers Show, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host and her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Joan has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning more than four decades in the entertainment industry and beyond, and as her recent accomplishments reveal, she's as robust and hard-working as ever. In April 2002, she brought her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival one-woman show, Broke and Alone, to London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, where she received rave reviews and the theatre's first standing ovation in fourteen years. One of the most naturally style-savvy women on the planet, Joan consistently appears on Best Dressed lists around the world. Along with her daughter, Melissa, she hosted E!'s red-carpet events from 1996-2004. From 2004-2007, they continued their "must-see" red-carpet coverage of the Emmys and other awards ceremonies for the TV Guide Channel, garnering the highest ratings ever for the channel. In 2009, she starred in NBC's hit reality series The Celebrity Apprentice along with her daughter Melissa where she emerged as the Season Two winner.

Ticket prices range from $25 to $70 and are available at the TPAC box office 505 Deaderick Street (downtown). Order online by visiting tpac.org or by calling 615-782-4040.

 

Photo Credit: Walter McBride/WM Photos

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