An Evening with Elyane Boosler in Parkville

An Evening with Elyane Boosler

No host. No feature act. All Elyane Boosler, literally the First Lady of Comedy in her one-woman show, "An Evening with Elayne Boosler".

ABOUT ELAYNE
Elayne Boosler has been a touring standup comedian since 1973. She explains her burning desire to graduate from performing in clubs to performing her one woman concert in theaters: “I really wanted to be able to deliver a full circle, rich evening of entertainment to the audience without distractions, and I also wanted to get off work early enough to be able to get food.”

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. right around the time the Dodgers were leaving, her first memories are of grown men crying. Not understanding, she felt responsible, and decided to go into comedy. Her most recent memories are also of grown men crying. Different story. Her tool-and-die-maker father and her escaped Russian ballerina mother encouraged her from an early age to leave them alone. She attended public school in Brooklyn, plus a nefarious (a word she did not learn in public school in Brooklyn) year or so at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she avoided class, has no credits on file, and swallowed many strange substances while she watched her hands multiply and listened to Janis Joplin albums....(for more visit http://www.elayneboosler.com/bio.php )

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