Night Job Holiday Edition, with Tony winner John Loyd Young, Presented Dec. 20

By Andrew Gans
December 20, 2007

Don't Quit Your Night Job — which was a downtown favorite at Joe's Pub before playing an extended run at the HA! Comedy Club — returns to the Zipper Factory Dec. 20.

The holiday edition of Night Job, described as a "late night happening of improv, music, sketches and stories," is scheduled to feature co-creators Dan Lipton (The Coast of Utopia), Steve Rosen (Spamalot), David Rossmer (Nerds) and Sarah Saltzberg (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) as well as Tony winner John Lloyd Young, Jill Abramovitz, Hank Azaria, Derrick Baskin, Todd Buonopane, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Lisa Jolley, Richard Kind, Maurice Murphy, Noah Weisberg, George Wendt, Alicia Witt and David Yazbek. Sean McDaniel will be featured on drums.

The 11:30 PM performance will benefit Wendy Wasserstein's Open Doors initiative. Theatre Development Fund and the late Wasserstein created Open Doors in 1988. The goal of the arts mentoring program is to "explore the relevance of theatre in the lives of today's youth."

The Zipper Factory is located in Manhattan at 336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues. Tickets, priced $20, are available by visiting www.thezipperfactory.com or by calling (212) 352-3101.