Max Winfrey: Stunt Comedian at Avenel Art Center
Show Dates and Times
April 22, 2022, at 8:00 pm * April 23, 2022, at 8:00 pm*April 24, 2022, at 3:00 pm
Ticket Price $39.50
About The Show
THINK FAST! You’d better if you’re going to sit within sight of Max Winfrey at his show.
That can come in handy if you see a bowling ball flying toward your head. Or–When you find yourself on stage in the world’s only audience participatory knife throwing act. With a gift for high-speed wit and off-the-wall skills like kitchen sink juggling, Max has carved out a unique niche as a Stunt Comedian. Most recently he was chosen from a group of over 70,000 acts to be a semifinalist on the hit NBC show, “America’s Got Talent“. Get ready for a crazy show! Max had a gift for this in school. After graduation, he decided to turn pro. He embarked on a journey that has left a trail of laughs and gasps from the streets of Walt Disney World all the way to television. When Max isn’t headlining Corporate Shows or Cruises, he likes to spend his down time with his wife and 3 daughters at their home in Orlando, Florida. He enjoys hiking, fitness, and sight-seeing in their RV. Max has toured all over the U.S. and Canada and has performed for many of the top Fortune 500 Companies. He has made numerous appearances on national television and was recently a semifinalist on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.
FOR TICKETS CALL 732-314-0500 or go to info@avenelarts.com
Enjoy Pre & Post-Show Dinner & Drinks at Curtains Bar and Restaurant!
Call ahead for a reservation: (732) 582-4595 Located inside the Avenel Performing Arts Center150 Avenel Street, Avenel NJ
Woodbridge Public Library Announces Online Library Card Registration Portal
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WOODBRIDGE – Woodbridge Public Library has enabled online library card registration to improve resident access to library services. Residents fill out a simple form on the WPL website or from the app, “WPL on the Go,” and immediately receive a temporary digital library card in their email. The digital card can be used to access a wide range of digital content from books, audiobooks, magazines, online classes, video based tutors and more.
Library Director, Monica Eppinger, explained, “We are doing what we can to make it convenient for residents to get a library card so they can use all of our terrific resources.”
The temporary card will be valid for nintey days so any digital items that were checked out will continue to be available. Once library staff process the online application a permanent card will be mailed to the resident’s address with a welcome packet. Residents can use their permanent card at three Woodbridge Township locations, the Main Library, 1 George Frederick Plaza, Woodbridge, the Iselin Branch, 1081 Green Street, Iselin and the Fords Branch, 211 Ford Avenue, Fords, and 50 area libraries in the MURAL system in Middlesex and Union Counties.
Contact the Main Library, 732-634-4450, x5, for more information or visit the Woodbridge Public Library website, woodbridgelibrary.org to “Ask-A-Librarian” by e-mail or chat.
Vince Valentine’s Comedy Collective
Show Times
- February 12, 2021 8:00 pm
- February 13, 2021 8:00 pm
Ticket Price $29.50
About The Show
Join us for night of laugher with some of New York’s finest comedians! Adult Content- enjoyable for adults ages 18 & up.
VINCE VALENTINE
Vince Valentine has been touring nationally with Broadway’s longest one person show ‘Defending The Caveman“ since 2003. A member of NYDT since 2001 and has played in the lead in “The Soapranos” a parody of the hit HBO series. As a writer and performer, he as also appeared in the Philly Fringe Festival as a member of the Comedy Improv Troupe , “ Skitzoids” and won acclaim in his role is Anthony in The New York International Theater Festival “ What Fools We Lover Be”
He is in production with his latest project “ As Youse Like It” a South Philly Fable , based on the Philly CheeseSteak Wars. Vince is a native of Philadelphia, where he teaches a very successful Stand Up Comedy Class for beginners at Camden County College.
PAUL LYONS
Paul’s comedy is inspired, inventive, and a pure delight. For over twenty years he has performed in every state, as well as overseas in England and Australia.
“A deviously creative funnyman”, says the Denver Rocky Mountain News. “Wonderfully wholesome and significantly different”, adds Silver Friedman, the owner of the Original Improvisation. His more than two dozen TV appearances include Comedy Central, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Showtime. The New York post sums him up this way, “Pure gold, very funny and illuminating.”
As a stand up comic, Paul has headlined in every state as well as overseas in London, England and Sydney, Australia. As an essayist Paul’s inspiring, peculiar pieces appear regularly in Playgirl, TV Guide, and Details.
JULIA SCOTTI
Julia is a nationally headlining comedian, former teacher, author, speaker, and woman of transgendered experience. She was a quarter-finalist and fan favorite on season 11 of America’s Got Talent on NBC in 2016.
Originally from Fairview, New Jersey, for the first 48 years she was better known as comedian Rick Scotti. She toured the country, appearing at venues all over the United States and Canada, both as a headliner in comedy clubs and as an opening act for artists such as Lou Rawls, Chicago, and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Julia has appeared on numerous television and radio shows as well as commercials.
In 2000, Julia left comedy to begin her life altering transition, and also to begin her new career as a teacher, where she remained for seven years. She was self-employed for a time, but in 2011, after a ten year layoff from comedy, Julia returned to the stage. Her new brand of comedy is fierce, honest, and fearless. She has been described as a “force of nature”, “a cross between Sam Kinison and Mrs. Doubtfire”, and like a “chainsaw flying through the room”.
Julia was a quarter-finalist on season 11 America’s Got Talent in 2016. She was a judge’s favorite with Simon Cowell saying “you genuinely made me laugh”, and Howie Mandel quoted as saying “you have so much to offer, you are a joy.”
COMEDY NIGHT OUT
Join us for 2 nights of laugher with some of New York’s finest comedians! Adult Content- enjoyable for adults ages 18 & up.
$29.50
FRIDAY, February 5th 2021 8PM
MARION GRODIN – Host
RICH ARONOVITCH – Headliner
w/Special Guest BILL MCCARTY
SATURDAY, February 6th 2021 8PM
MARION GRODIN – Host
RICHIE BRYNE – Headliner
w/Special Guest ROBIN FOX
A SLIGHTLY Wicked Christmas
Join stars from WICKED, HOLIDAY INN,THE CHER SHOW and HELLO, DOLLY, as they sing songs, banter with the audience and put a fresh spin on the Holidays.
Tickets: $49.50
Dates:
December 20, 2020 3:00 pm
December 20, 2020 7:00 pm
My Big Gay Italian Mid Life Crisis Come To The Avenel Art Center
Buy Tickets Show Times October 1, 2020
...READ MOREWHS PRESENTS THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
It’s a comedy! It’s a musical! It’s a comedy about a musical! It’s The Drowsy Chaperone and Woodbridge High School is presenting this joyful entertainment on Thursday March 19th, Friday March 20th, Saturday March 21st (all at 7:00 pm), and Sunday, March 22nd (at 2 pm). The Drowsy Chaperone gives you two shows in one: a silly, happy, old-fashioned musical comedy set in the 1920s (like Anything Goes or The Boy Friend), and at the same time a modern day, meta-satirical look at show business and the crazy people who make it. The original Broadway production, starring Sutton Foster, Danny Burstein, and Beth Leavel, won five Tony Awards (including Best Score and Best Book) in 2006.
Woodbridge’s production of Drowsy Chaperone features 36 cast members and more than a dozen crew members and backstage support volunteers, along with student musicians in the pit. Another dozen art students are painting sets/props to create the style of the roaring twenties. These are dedicated WHS students giving their time, talent and energy to make a heart-warming story which Woodbridge audiences will adore.
This is a show-within-a-show. We first meet the Man-in-chair (Lenny Sharpe), an everyman living in a basic NYC apartment. He breaks the “fourth wall” as he chats with the audience about life. As he plays his favorite old record, the show magically comes to life in front of our eyes. And what a show! We meet a gorgeous and talented star (Alyssa Molnar) who’s considering giving up show business to marry a dashing Gatsby-type millionaire (Dan Nebus), a pair of gangsters (Chris Torres & Gabriella Gangemi) posing as pastry chefs to invade a Long Island mansion overseen by the rich, ditsy host (Julia Bialy) and her trusted butler (Kevin Catalon), a Latin lothario (Daniel Tajes), a gold-digging chorine (Rosie Pilla) and her frustrated producer (Michael Trujillo), a frenzied best man trying to make the wedding run smoothly (Joe Golden), an Amelia Earhardt-style female aviator (Haley Resta), and, of course, the title character, a “drowsy” confidante and chaperone (Lauren Padden). What more could you want for an evening’s entertainment?
The Drowsy Chaperone has a tuneful score by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a smart book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar (Slings and Arrows on TV).
The directors are Kelly Terrell and Tom Lynch, the musical directors are Jason Kohn and Lisa Romero. Choreography is by Mr. Quienzell Bunch, and Tom O’Shaughnessy.
Tickets can be obtained at the door ($13) or in advance from any cast member, or the main office at the high school ($10 in advance). For more information, call 732-602-8600.
For more info: Kelly Terrell 646-279-7137 or Tom Lynch 732-910-2155
