AIDS ACTION BALTIMORE AND THE HIPPO PRESENT SANDRA BERNHARD
by: AIDS Action Baltimore, OIA Newswire

On Friday, May 2,
2008, AIDS Action Baltimore and The Hippo will host two
performances by the legendary Sandra
Bernhard. The shows will be held at The Hippo, One West Eager Street,
at 8pm and 10pm. A Champagne Reception will be held at 7pm, preceding the 8pm
show. Tickets for either show are available for $55 for reserved
seating (sold in tables of four), or $30 for standing room.
Tickets for the Champagne Reception, which will feature an appearance by Ms. Bernhard, will include
reserved seats for the 8
PM show and are available for $100. Proceeds will benefit AIDS Action
Baltimore.

This will be Sandra Bernhard’s Baltimore debut. Well known as a gay icon,
her talents are many and varied. “For
the last 25 years, Sandra Bernhard has been challenging fans and critics with
her knife-edged humor, satire and emotive performances on film, television and
the stage.” UCLA Live

Her credits include Martin Scorseses’, The King of Comedy with Robert De Niro, Inside Monkey Zetterland, Hudson Hawk and more recently Dinner Rush with Danny Aiello. Her television roles include Nancy on Roseanne, as well as guest roles on AllyMcBeal, Chicago Hope and Will
& Grace. She has also appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Rosie
O’Donnell and The
View. She has also hosted the
season premiere of MadTV and her
own talk show for the A&E Network, The
Sandra Bernhard Experience.

Ms. Bernhard made her publishing debut in 1987 with Confessions of a Pretty Lady, followed by Love, Love, and Love and May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra?
She is featured in the April issue of Vanity
Fair as part of their cover story, Who
Says Women Aren’t Funny? She has also starred on Broadway in
her acclaimed one-woman show, I’m
Still Here…Damn It! Her San Francisco Bay
area performance of this show was
filmed for an original HBO special in 1998. More
recently, she starred on stage in the musical Everything
Bad and Beautiful and Hero Worship,
in which she was accompanied by a five-piece band in this September 11th
tribute to Bernhard’s commitment to irony. (For more information on Ms.
Bernhard’s career and upcoming performances visit her web site at www.sandrabernhard.com).

“We are thrilled
to have Sandra Bernhard appearing at our spring benefit at The Hippo”,
said AIDS Action Baltimore’s Executive Director Lynda Dee. “Ms.
Bernhard’s diverse talents are nothing less than extraordinary. We are
all very excited about her upcoming performances at our event. We were very
lucky to get her to come to our fair city.”

Tickets for the 7pm Champagne Reception, which
includes a reserved seat for the 8 PM show are available for $100 per person.
Reserved seating is available for $55 per person (sold in tables of four), and
standing room tickets are available for $30. Reserved seating and standing
room tickets are available for both the 8pm and 10pm shows. To purchase
tickets, contact AIDS Action Baltimore at 410.837.2438 or online at
www.aidsactionbaltimore.org.


AIDS Action Baltimore is a local community-based,
IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit HIV/AIDS service organization. Since 1986, AAB has
provided over two million dollars in financial assistance to needy people with
HIV/AIDS and their families in the Baltimore
metropolitan area. AAB is also dedicated to HIV research and treatment
advocacy. AAB works nationally with community coalitions,
scientific researchers, government and the pharmaceutical industry to formulate
policy that will expedite drug approval and access to safe new HIV drugs at a
reasonable cost.
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