A winner in NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” reality competition has yet to be decided, but the fate of the top five contestants on the summer television series is already sealed.
The five finalists — comedians Felipe Esparza, Mike Destefano, Myq Kaplan, Roy Wood Jr. and Tommy Johnagin — will tour the nation on a lengthy tour beginning this fall. Fifty-six dates have been confirmed from September 8 at Laxson Auditorium in Chico, CA, through February 20 at Saenger Theatre in Mobile, AL.
Other dates on the comedy tour’s calendar, as compiled by Pollstar, include September 11 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA; October 1 at Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA; October 14 at Nokia Theatre in New York, NY; November 20 at the Music Theatre in Omaha, NE; and December 31 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA.
Booked into the New Year, stops are also set for January 6 at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden, UT, and January 15 at the Community Theatre in Morristown, NJ, among other dates.
The winner of “Last Comic Standing” will be announced during the show’s next live broadcast on August 9 and will receive $250,000 and a talent contract with NBC in addition to a feature spot on the upcoming tour. Select dates of the tour were announced and began public onsales in spring, several weeks before the first episodes of Season Seven began airing on NBC.
But a couple markets on the itinerary do have onsales coming up in early August, according to the tour’s sparse event listings on Ticketmaster.com. A November 19 show in Prior Lake, MN, goes on sale August 14, and the January 8 stop in Denver, CO, has onsales starting August 6. Ticket prices in most markets begin around $29.
This summer signals “Last Comic Standing’s” return to the NBC reality TV lineup. The competition was absent from the network’s 2009 programming schedule, its second cancellation since debuting in 2003.
NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” Tour itinerary:
(Dates are subject to change.)
September 8 | Chico, CA | Laxson Auditorium |
September 9 | Sacramento, CA | Crest Theatre |
September 10 | San Francisco, CA | Warfield Theatre |
September 11 | Los Angeles, CA | Club Nokia |
September 12 | Anaheim, CA | Grove of Anaheim |
September 16 | Flagstaff, AZ | Prochnow Auditorium |
September 17 | Mesa, AZ | Ikeda Theatre |
September 18 | Tucson, AZ | Desert Diamond Casino |
September 19 | San Diego, CA | Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay |
September 23 | Easton, PA | State Theatre Center for the Arts |
September 24 | Worcester, MA | The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts |
September 25 | Lowell, MA | Lowell Memorial Auditorium |
September 26 | Lakeville, PA | Cove Haven Entertainment Resorts |
October 1 | Boston, MA | Wilbur Theatre |
October 2 | Westbury, NY | NYCBTheatre at Westbury |
October 3 | Waterbury, CT | Palace Theater |
October 4 | Princeton, NJ | McCarter Theatre |
October 7 | Cleveland, OH | House of Blues |
October 8 | Waukegan, IL | Genesee Theatre |
October 9 | Merrillville, IN | Star Plaza Theatre |
October 14 | New York, NY | Nokia Theatre Times Square |
October 15 | Red Bank, NJ | Count Basie Theatre |
October 16 | Glenside, PA | Keswick Theatre |
October 17 | Wilmington, DE | Grand Opera House |
October 21 | Eugene, OR | McDonald Theatre |
October 22 | Portland, OR | Aladdin Theater |
October 23 | Tacoma, WA | Emerald Queen Casino |
October 24 | Spokane, WA | Bing Crosby Theater |
October 28 | Charlotte, NC | Knight Theater |
October 29 | Raleigh, NC | Meymandi Concert Hall |
October 30 | Richmond, VA | Carpenter Theatre |
November 4 | Flint, MI | The Whiting |
November 5 | Clinton Township, MI | Macomb Center for the Performing Arts |
November 6 | Jackson, MI | Potter Center |
November 7 | Traverse City, MI | Traverse City Opera House |
November 12 | Milwaukee, WI | Pabst Theater |
November 13 | Effingham, IL | Effingham Performance Center |
November 18 | Saint Joseph, MO | Missouri Theater |
November 19 | Prior Lake, MN | Mystic Lake Casino |
November 20 | Omaha, NE | Omaha Music Theatre |
December 26 | Fort Myers, FL | Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall |
December 27 | West Palm Beach, FL | Kravis Center |
December 29 | ¬Orlando, FL | Hard Rock Live |
December 31 | Atlanta, GA | Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre |
January 6 | Ogden, UT | Peery’s Egyptian Theater |
January 7 | Colorado Springs, CO | Pikes Peak Center |
January 8 | Denver, CO | Gates Concert Hall |
January 9 | Beaver Creek, CO | Vilar Performing Arts Center |
January 13 | Providence, RI | Veterans Memorial Auditorium |
January 14 | Englewood, NJ | Bergen Performing Arts Center |
January 15 | Morristown, NJ | Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts |
January 16 | Northampton, MA | Calvin Theater |
January 21 | Green Bay, WI | Meyer Theatre |
January 22 | Kalamazoo, MI | W. Michigan University |
February 19 | Montgomery, AL | Montgomery Performing Arts Centre |
February 20 | Mobile, AL | Saenger Theatre |
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Some of the best comics you have never heard of hit this tour up. If you get a chance to go, take it, it’s totally worth while.