Mark Nizer's Outrageous Comedy + Expert Juggling = BrillianT show

Media Contact:

Kristen Gleason
Director of Marketing
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.979.1922 ext. 103
kristen@theparamount.net

For Immediate Release

August 6, 2008

With a unique performance combining original comedy, world-class juggling, movement, music, and technology in a spellbinding series of incredible feats, Mark Nizer is “nothing less than brilliant” (Performance Magazine), and changes the way people view the world.

Making a repeat Paramount performance for audience members of all ages, Mark Nizer brings his outrageous comedy antics and expertly-crafted juggling feats to the historic theater’s stage on Saturday, August 23 at 7 pm.

Tickets are $23.50, $26.50, $29.50 and $34.50, with a Youth/Child price of $19.50 available to those aged 12 and under, and may be purchased online or through The Paramount’s Box Office at 434.979.1333. Half-price student rush tickets and group discounts are also available.

Special Media Sponsors for this performance are AlbemarleFamily and WHTJ Charlottesville PBS.

Since winning First Place in the International Juggling Championships, Collegiate Entertainer of the Year, and Comedy Entertainer of the Year, Mark Nizer has been making the impossible possible. His appearances have taken him to hundreds of theaters, colleges, and corporate settings across the country -- but probably none as far away as Harare, Zimbabwe, where Nizer shared his unique style of entertainment in three sold-out performances at the Harare International Festival of the Arts this past spring.

Whether juggling four brilliant lasers at 1,000 revolutions per minute, throwing five ping pong balls 20 feet in the air using only his mouth, or even juggling a burning propane tank with a running electric carving knife and a 16-pound bowling ball, audiences discover that Mark Nizer is "the juggler your mother warned you about" ... or should have. t was Nizer’s own mother who enrolled him in a juggling class at age 13, starting him on a journey that’s now enabled him to thrill audiences for more than 20 years.

Nizer has taken his one-man show to venues including The Improv, The Comedy Store, Walt Disney World, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. His exploits have landed him on MTV, HBO’s Just for Laughs, Comic Strip Live, The Arsenio Hall Show, and Bob Hope and Other Young Comedians.

He has opened for Jerry Seinfeld, George Burns, John Byner, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, and Barry Manilow. As said by Entertainment Magazine, "Without a doubt the hottest juggler on the entertainment market, Mark Nizer is simply incredible."

For more information about Mark Nizer, please visit www.nizer.com.