Laugh Out Loud at Standing Up, the Mandell JCC’s Jewish Book Festival Signature Event Featuring Marion Grodin; Saturday, January 25, 2014, 8:00pm

(January 8, 2014, West Hartford, CT) Start the New Year off
with a laugh – or two, or three, at Standing Up, the Mandell JCC’s
Jewish Book Festival signature event featuring standup comedian, Marion Grodin on
Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 8:00pm in the Herbert Gilman Theater at the
Mandell JCC, Zachs Campus, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT. The evening
concludes with a dessert reception, and author book signing.

The event is centered on stories and scenarios from Grodin’s
hilarious autobiography, Standing Up: A
Memoir of a Funny (Not Always) Life, where she shares the details of her
Hollywood childhood, teenage years of drugs and sex, and sober adult life on
the stand-up circuit. Grodin has written for Twentieth Century Fox and has sold
six screenplays. While working on her seventh one, she decided it was time for
her to start saying all these funny things she was writing for other people to
say.

For the last fifteen years, Grodin has been one of the
hottest standup comics in the country and is a favorite at New York City’s top
clubs, including Standup NY and Gotham Comedy Club. She has toured with Linda
Ronstadt, and opened for Lewis Black, as well as having shared the stage with
Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Roseanne Barr, and Robin Williams. In addition,
she has also been seen on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, ABC’s The View,
and CNN’s The Joy Behar Show.

Tickets are $20 per person and are on sale at the Mandell
JCC Box Office, 860-231-6316, tickets@mandelljcc.org and at www.mandelljcc.org, and at the Member
Services Center, 860-236-4571. For more information on the Mandell JCC Jewish
Book Festival, contact Festival Director, Jill Ziplow, 860-231-6339, jziplow@mandelljcc.org.

The Mandell Jewish Community Center is open to
everyone and supported by funds raised by the Jewish Federation of Greater
Hartford, a recipient of funding from the Jewish Community Foundation of
Greater Hartford, and a member of the JCC Association of North America. For
updates, visit www.mandelljcc.org, or
follow the Mandell JCC on Facebook and Twitter. All dates and programs subject
to change.