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Articles
about the Show
5/20/2004,
Grove City News,Laughing for Life,
by Kristin Campbell
5/27/2004,
Grove City News, Laugh line up: Changes
by Kristin Campbell
6/03/2004,
The Columbus Dispatch Weekender: 'Life Event'
by Gary Budzak
Story below:
‘ Life ’ event
"Laughing for Life" — an evening of
stand-up and improvisational comedy, skits and music — will be
offered at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Little Theater Off Broadway, 3981
Broadway, Grove City.
Performers will include cutups Rhonda
Carling-Rodgers, Dawn Holley, Rebecca Krefting and Yvette Weems;
guitarist Jeff Reed; and song parodist Dan Orr of WLVQ (96.3 FM).
The show will benefit the "Relay for
Life" campaign of the American Cancer Society next week at
Grove City High School.
Tickets cost $12. Call the theater at
614-875-3919.
gbudzak@dispatch.com
Door
Prizes provided by:
Door Prizes provided by:
The
Funnybone (Easton)
The
Dan Orr Project
Nora’s Coffee Corner
Planks on Broadway
Lilly’s on Broadway
Sommer House Gallery
Michael’s Salon
Frankie’s Café
Action
Special Tees
Art Haven Small Print Shop
Natural State Wines
Hometown Sports
1UP
"Make it Personal"
The UPS Store (Grove City)
Flyers Pizza & Subs (Grove City)
W.G. Grinders (Grove City)
Caroline
Marcum, Grove City One-Hour Cleaners, cancer survivor
Joan
Reed, cancer survivor
Cafe Comedy will present
Laughing for Life Saturday, June 5, a special benefit show
to help the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life fundraising
campaign.
Cafe Comedy will stage a
PG-13 version of its popular mix of stand-up and improv at the
Little Theater Off Broadway (LTOB), 3981 Broadway, in Grove City's
Town Center.
Sponsored by LTOB and
Nora's Coffee Corner, the 7 p.m. show will include door prizes
and parody songs by Dan Orr of QFM 96, whose songs are heard on
the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show, along with stand-up
by Rhonda Carling-Rogers, Yvette Weems, Dawn Holley and Rebecca
Krefting and improv by Holley, Carling-Rogers and guests. In
addition, guitarist Jeff Reed will perform original music.
"This will be a
joyful, life-affirming show for a good cause, featuring a group of
comics who are among Cafe Comedy's favorite performers and special
guest Dan Orr," said Holley, Cafe Comedy founder and producer.
The $12 tickets can be
purchased at Nora's Coffee Corner, LTOB and from Relay for Life
volunteers. In the event of a sellout a second show at 9 p.m. will
be added.
Relay for Life in Grove
City takes place at Grove City High School June 11-12.
Cafe Comedy also will
present its regular monthly shows June 10-12 at Nora's Coffee
Corner.
For more
information about Cafe Comedy and the June 5 event, log on to www.dawnholley.com.
For tickets, call Nora's Coffee Corner, 614-801-1622 or LTOB at
875-3919.
"Lighting candles reaffirmed my
commitment to this benefit," said Laughing for Life producer
Dawn Holley. "At the Relay for Life kick-off ceremony,
everyone was asked to light a candle to honor people we know
with cancer. As I lit candle after candle, I was struck by
how much cancer, in all its varieties, has attacked so many
people in my life, from my parents, in-laws and sister, to so many
other family members and friends, most of whom are survivors.
We're here to raise money and hope through laughter. As they say,
laughter's the best medicine."
"Yvette, Rhonda and Rebecca have
performed numerous times at
Cafe' Comedy, to the delight of our audiences.
With Dan Orr joining the line-up, this guarantees to be
a very
special show."
About the performers
Rebecca Krefting*
She is wrapping
a year of study at Ohio State, as a student teacher working
on her masters. She's very funny and a cancer survivor.
She's transferring to study in the Boston area. Her work will
include helping kids put on their own comedy shows.
*Rebecca
Krefting, cancer survivor,
was hospitalized earlier this week and was not able to participate in this show.
Rhonda Carling Rogers
She has
performed comedy extensively throughout her native Australia, in
Singapore and on cruise ships, and she's acted on television
and in film. Rhonda was the featured comedian in the May
27th issue of The Columbus Dispatch Weekender
Yvette Weems
She was recognized in 2003 as
Best New Comedian
at the Robin's Nest Club in
Cleveland.
Special Guest
Dan Orr
96 QFM radio
personality/producer, his band, the Dan Orr Project, has produced 4
CDs
of song parodies. Many of their songs have been heard nationally on Dr. Demento.
Click on chicken below to see complete
program.
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presents
June 5,
2004
7 p.m.
Little Theater Off Broadway
Grove City OH
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Laughing
for Life