Rita Rudner
August 20 – 22, 2015
Cover charge: $60 – $75
Premiums: $120 – $125
Food & Beverage Minimum $25
| Thu, Aug 20 | 7:00 pm | Doors 5:15pm | $65/70/75/125 | Tickets |
| Fri, Aug 21 | 7:00 pm | Doors 5:15pm | $60/65/70/120 | Tickets |
| Sat, Aug 22 | 7:00 pm | Doors 5:15pm | $60/65/70/120 | Tickets |
Join Rita Rudner for her 54 Below debut!
A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a fourteen year run and 2,000 plus shows, she has sold one and a half million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas, even being named Las Vegas’ Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row.
Rita Rudner moved to New York at the age of fifteen to become a dancer on Broadway. She appeared in several shows, including the original productions of Follies and Mack and Mabel. It was while in Annie on Broadway that she began exploring the comedy clubs of Manhattan. In the early ‘80s, Rudner took a full-time leap from chorus lines to punch lines and was soon a regular guest on both Late Night With David Letterman and The Tonight Show.
Rita’s first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. Rudner’s two one-hour specials for HBO filled Carnegie Hall in New York three times and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles twice. In 2008, Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS’s first ever stand-up comedy special.
Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of twenty six years, Martin Bergman. The couple’s first play – Room 776 – ran as part of the 2008 season of the Las Vegas Little Theatre. Their second play, based on Rita’s first novel Tickled Pink, premiered at the Laguna Playhouse in April 2012. In 2016 Rita will again perform at the Playhouse in a new play, Act Three by David Ambrose.
