An Evening with BRUCE VILANCH and JUDY GOLD = Laughter & Fun – A Comedy Double Header

Oscar audiences will know Bruce Vilanch’s hysterical, Emmy Award-winning writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and other hosts for more than 20 years. He’s written many other award shows, television series, and variety specials. His stand-up comedy routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider.

Judy Gold is also an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.”
Together,

Bruce and Judy will fill the BIG and TALL order of making you laugh and laugh!

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Oscar audiences will know Bruce Vilanch’s hysterical, Emmy Award-winning writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and other hosts for more than 20 years. He’s written many other award shows, television series, and variety specials. His stand-up comedy routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider.

Judy Gold is also an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.”

Together, Bruce and Judy will fill the BIG and TALL order of making you laugh and laugh!

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Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Announces 2018-19 Season. The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center is located at 3385 N.E. 188 Street in Aventura.

Ticketmaster is the only official ticketing service of the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Buy tickets online at aventuracenter.org, by phone at 877.311.7469 or 954.462.0222, or in person at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center box office Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to each performance. For Group Sales, please call 954.660.6307.

Please note that not all shows scheduled for the 2018-19 season are currently on sale and additional performances will be added throughout the season. Print quality images of select performances from the upcoming season, representing all genres, may be downloaded at https://tinyurl.com/yacz7vw5.

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts manages the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, a 14,864-square-foot, 330-seat waterfront complex that hosts performing arts, cultural and educational programming for all ages.

Performance Schedule at a Glance Page 2

Aventura International Film Series Page 4

Broadway Concert Series and Theater Page 7

Classical Music Page 10

Comedy and Variety Page 12

Concerts and Popular Music Page 17

Dance Page 22

Family Entertainment Theater Page 24

NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Speaker Series Page 27

Aventura Arts & Cultural Center 2018-19 Season

Oct. 5 Bruce Vilanch: Click Here For Ticket Information & Tickets

Oct. 6-7 Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: Firebird, Le Spectre de la Rose, Pentimento

Oct. 9 Aventura International Film Series: English Vinglish

Oct. 14 Yamandu Costa

Oct. 19 The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

Oct. 19 The Long Run-Eagles Tribute

Oct. 20 Giggle, Giggle Quack

Oct. 20 Three Hysterical Broads Off Their Medication

Oct. 23-28 Menopause the Musical

Nov. 2 New World Dance Ensemble

Nov. 3 Luis Chataing-Nuevamente (Spanish language)

Nov. 4 Aventura Marketing Council Young Stars Showcase

Nov. 6 Aventura International Film Series: The Cakemaker

Nov. 10 Bobby Collins

Nov. 13 NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Speaker Series:

Charles Zelden, PhD – A Postmortem of the 2018 Midterm Elections

Nov. 17 Top of the World-A Carpenters Tribute Featuring Debbie Taylor

Nov. 18 Miami International Piano Festival: Francesco Libetta

Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Dec. 4 Aventura International Film Series: The Divine Order

Dec. 7-9 Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: The Nutcracker

Dec. 16 Jake Ehrenreich’s A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs

Dec. 22 Sarge’s Chanukah Chutzpah Tour…Kiss My Mezuzah

Dec. 29-30 Steve Solomon’s Home for the Holidays

Jan. 3-4 Forbidden Broadway

Jan. 5 Mary Gaines Bernard Celebrates the Life and Music of Donna Summer

Jan. 12 Mike Super: Magic & Illusion

Jan. 13 Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner

Jan. 15 Aventura International Film Series: The Guilty

Jan. 18 Judy Gold

Jan. 20 Miami International Piano Festival: Julien Libeer

Jan. 23-24 An Acoustic Evening with Matisyahu

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It’s a Golden Opportunity to support The Playhouse at the Judy Gold show! Donate your gold and silver rings, bracelets and necklaces to The Ridgefield Playhouse at the Gold and Silver Give Back Event before the Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch show on January 27! Veteran jeweler Steve Delzio of The Mexican Shack will be in the lobby from 6:30-8pm to accept your jewelry as a fundraiser for The Ridgefield Playhouse, which is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit.

From 6:30 – 8pm, patrons will have the opportunity to donate real gold or silver jewelry that they no longer want and 100% of the donation will benefit The Ridgefield Playhouse. Mr. Delzio is unable to accept donations of diamonds, precious gems, or gold or silver-plated jewelry at this time. Patrons can bring their real gold or silver jewelry to his table for an appraisal. He’ll remove any precious gems and return them, and then weigh the precious metal and tell them the value of the piece. All donors will receive a tax donation letter for their records.

Mr. Delzio will also showcase some of his own jewelry, which will be available for purchase. Mr. Delzio has been in the jewelry and precious metals business for more than 43 years and sells both fine jewelry and Native-American inspired jewelry at The Mexican Shack in Somers, New York.

A full cash bar will be open in the lobby of The Playhouse during the Gold and Silver Give Back Event and donors are welcome to enjoy a cocktail hour in the lobby and stay for the comedy show, which begins at 8pm. For tickets ($39.50), call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.

JUDY GOLD is an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. Judy recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” can be seen on the new Showtime series “I’m Dying Up Here” and Netflix’s “Friends From College.” She has recurring roles on Pop TV’s “NightCap!” and TBS’s “Search Party.” Judy is the host of the hit podcast “Kill Me Now” on CBS’ play.it and iTunes.

BRUCE VILANCH is a six-time Emmy Award-winning comic who’s best known for his four-year stint as a celebrity participant on “Hollywood Squares.” His stand-up routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider and earned him the role of head writer for the Oscars — writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and others. He’s also worked as a comedy writer for other award shows, television series and variety specials.

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When you’re talking comedy greats today, Judy Gold is truly worthy of her last name. Whether it was as writer and producer of the Rosie O’Donnell show, starring in two acclaimed Off Broadway one-woman shows (“The Judy Show — My Life as a Sitcom” and “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother”) or just the nearly 25 years she has been doing standup, the comedian delivers a gold-medal performance at every turn.

On Jan. 27, Gold will be teaming with fellow NSFW (not safe for work) comedian Bruce Vilanch for a show at the Ridgefield Playhouse titled “Big and Small.” Gold spoke with us about her upcoming show and getting her start in standup.

Keith Loria: Preview a little of what we can expect from you on the night.

Judy Gold: I’ll be ranting and going off on how much I hate everyone, which seems to be the theme of my act now. It’s going to be a really fun night.

KL: How do you and Bruce complement each other on stage?

JG: I love doing this show. Bruce is like a joke machine. He has worked with everyone and he knows stuff about all of them. It’s really fun to hear about Hollywood from someone who has made other people look funny for so long. We are so different. He tells these incredible stories about Hollywood, and I’m just me. I think we really complement each other and are funny in different ways. We’ve known each other for years.

KL: With such different styles, why did you think the pairing would work?

JG: We’re both gay, both Jews and both large! We’re both from New Jersey and were both very close with our mothers. There’s just a kinship. We just had an immediate connection.

KL: How did you know that comedy was something you wanted to do with your life?

JG: I knew I would never be happy if I didn’t follow my dream. Yet, I come from the most conservative family when it comes to risk taking. My father was a tax attorney, my mother a secretary, my sister is in insurance and my brother is a CPA. To them, my dream was crazy.

KL: You came up through the comedy ranks alongside notable comics like Ray Romano and Wanda Sykes. What was it like back then?

JG: It’s like we were all in the same platoon. We share this bond that can never be broken. When I was on the road in the ’80s and early ’90s, we wrote all day and then we hung out all night. We were each other’s family and standup became so important to me.

KL: How has Donald Trump becoming president changed your act this past year?

JG: It is like the orange elephant in the room all the time. It’s on everyone’s mind all the time. I remember the days when I would watch Jeopardy! but now I have to have MSNBC on every night. It’s turned into a dangerous reality show. My relationships with some people have changed and my audiences have changed. He just brings out the worst of people.

KL: You host a successful blog — Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. What do you enjoy about that experience?

JG: I find people really interesting and I want to know what makes people tick and what makes them different. To be in this horrible show business, you have to be ill in some way because it’s such a crap shoot. I really love finding out the stuff they don’t normally talk about.

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