Posted on: Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 12:00 CDT
By Bill Blankenship
By Bill Blankenship
Topekans will get a chance this summer to help select who they will see performing at a show this autumn at the Topeka Performing Arts Center.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday for NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” Live Tour, which will stop at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at TPAC.
Tickets for the TPAC show will be $48 and $38.
They will be sold in person at the TPAC box office, 214 S.E. 8th, or through Ticketmaster at 234-4545, www.ticketmaster.com or its retail outlets, including the Dillons stores in Topeka at 300 S.W. 29th, 5720 S.W. 21st and 801 N.W. 25th.
The lineup for the comedy tour will depend on who makes it to the finals of Season 6 of “Last Comic Standing,” which premieres at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on NBC.
The show can be viewed locally on KSNT Channel 27, which is seen on Channel 7 on the Cox cable system in Topeka.
The first few shows of this season of the Emmy-nominated series will feature auditions across the United States, as well as tryouts for comics from 20 other countries.
For the first time on the series, a parade of NBC comedy stars from past and present hit shows will join “Last Comic Standing” as talent scouts.
Helping to “find the funny” are talent scouts Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner and Kate Flannery (”The Office”); Dave Foley (”Thank God You’re Here!”"Newsradio”); Neil Flynn (”Scrubs”); George Wendt and John Ratzenberger (”Cheers”); Richard Belzer (”Law & Order: SVU”); Steve Schirripa (”The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”); Kathy Najimy (”Veronica’s Closet”) and French Stewart (”Third Rock From the Sun”).
Josh Gomez (”Chuck”), Lonny Ross and Keith Powell (”30 Rock”) also serve as talent scouts, along with Richard Kind and Fred Willard (”Mad About You”) and Alfonso Ribeiro (”The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”).

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