Jay Leno Takes Center Stage at MCC's 10th Anniversary Celebrity Forum
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum, the MCC Foundation will host Jay Leno, comedian, author, classic-car collector and host of NBC's Emmy award-winning Tonight Show, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium at 50 East Merrimack St.
The MCC Celebrity Forum is an annual event designed to bring well-known personalities to the area in order to enrich educational and cultural opportunities for local residents. Proceeds from this event help to raise funds for the MCC Foundation.
Leno first appeared on the Tonight Show early in his career, and was guest host for five years before being named Johnny Carson's replacement in 1992. He has joked that it was the first full-time job he ever had.
In addition to his nightly television show, Leno still appears regularly in Las Vegas and at other live venues throughout the country. He has entertained U.S. military troops in Bosnia and Italy, and has a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. He also is the winner of a People's Choice Award for Favorite Late Night Talk-Show Host.
Leno is the author of the New York Times bestseller Leading with My Chin, in which he chronicles his life from class clown through the typical comedian's career path of one-nighters, to his current job as the top-ranked late-night TV talk-show host. Other Leno publications include the children's books If Roast Beef Could Fly - another New York Times bestseller - and How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or just in your class).
Raised in Andover, Leno still maintains close ties to his childhood friends. He now resides in Southern California with his wife, Mavis, who spoke at MCC's commencement in 2005.
Tickets for the event may be purchased at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium box office or through Ticketmaster. Tickets, which are $65 for premier seating and $49 for standard seating, will not be sold on campus. Tickets will on sale to the public on March 28th at 10 a.m., however, as a special offer to, among others, regular readers of this blog, there's an opportunity to purchase tickets during a "pre-sale period" beginning at 10 a.m. on Monday March 24, through 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 27.
To purchase tickets on-line during the pre-sale period:
- Go to www.ticketmaster.com
- Click on the event
- Once the event page opens, a form will appear with the wording "LMA and MCC Pre-Sale."
- There will be three drop-down boxes on the screen - one box for the number of tickets to be purchased, one box for the desired ticket price, and one box that will ask for a special code or password. Please use the password "Burbank" (not case-sensitive) in order to proceed with the ticket purchase
Tickets may also be purchased at the LMA Box Office during the pre-sale period with the use of the password "Burbank."
The TJX Companies is the presenting sponsor of the MCC Celebrity Forum. For interested Forum sponsors, this year's event will also feature a formal dinner at the Auditorium, as well as private receptions both before and after the event. For information about how to be a Forum sponsor, please call Dennis Malvers at the college's Celebrity Forum information line at 781-280-3590.