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SUMMARY:Grand Funk Railroad at Foxwoods
DESCRIPTION:Grand Funk Railroad at Foxwoods brings one of the defining American rock bands of the 1970s to the Great Cedar Showroom on Friday\, September 4\, as the band rolls into Mashantucket on its Still Shinin’ On Tour 2026. \nMore than 55 years after Grand Funk Railroad emerged from Flint\, Michigan\, founding members Don Brewer and Mel Schacher are still carrying the band onto stages around the country. The current tour arrives at Foxwoods with a catalog that includes “We’re an American Band\,” “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)\,” “The Loco-Motion\,” “Some Kind of Wonderful\,” “Walk Like a Man” and “Bad Time.” \nThe concert begins at 8 p.m. \nThree Musicians From Flint\nGrand Funk Railroad began in 1969 with guitarist and singer Mark Farner\, drummer and singer Don Brewer and bassist Mel Schacher. \nThey came from Flint\, Michigan\, an industrial city that provided an appropriate birthplace for a band built around volume\, heavy rhythm and a stripped-down power-trio sound. \nTheir ascent was remarkably fast. \nA performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1969 helped introduce the new band to a much larger audience. Grand Funk soon developed a reputation as a formidable live act\, touring relentlessly while building an audience that didn’t necessarily wait for rock critics to tell them what to like. \nThe records followed. \nBy the early 1970s\, Grand Funk had become one of America’s biggest rock bands. \nWhen Grand Funk Filled Shea Stadium\nOne concert became part of Grand Funk Railroad lore. \nIn 1971\, the band played New York’s Shea Stadium\, the ballpark where The Beatles had staged their famous 1965 concert. \nGrand Funk’s show demonstrated just how enormous the band’s audience had become. \nIt also captured something essential about Grand Funk Railroad’s success. This was a band built for the era when rock music was moving from theaters and ballrooms into arenas and stadiums. \nThe music had to fill those spaces. \nGrand Funk could. \nHeavy bass\, pounding drums\, loud guitars and songs constructed around riffs and choruses translated particularly well to huge crowds. \nThat live reputation remains a central part of the band’s identity more than half a century later. \n“I’m Your Captain” Became an FM Radio Landmark\nBefore Grand Funk became “An American Band\,” it produced one of the great extended rock songs of its era. \n“I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)” appeared on the band’s 1970 album Closer to Home. \nThe recording moves through two distinct sections\, beginning with the story of a captain pleading with his crew before transitioning into the repeated “I’m getting closer to my home” finale. \nAt roughly 10 minutes\, the album version was made for the emerging world of FM rock radio\, where stations were increasingly willing to play songs that didn’t fit neatly into the traditional three-minute single. \nDecades later\, “I’m Your Captain” remains one of the songs most closely associated with Grand Funk Railroad. \nThen came the record that changed the band’s identity altogether. \nGrand Funk Becomes “An American Band”\nIn 1973\, Grand Funk Railroad released We’re an American Band. \nThe title track was written and sung by Don Brewer\, who also played drums on the recording. \nIt went to No. 1. \nThe song turned life on the road into a rock anthem\, complete with hotel rooms\, late nights\, concerts and the declaration that gave Grand Funk a nickname it still uses today: \nThe American Band. \nThe album also represented an important shift for Grand Funk. Todd Rundgren produced the record\, helping refine the band’s massive live sound into something that worked particularly well on radio. \nThe result became Grand Funk’s first No. 1 single. \nIt wouldn’t be the last. \nA 1960s Pop Song Becomes a Grand Funk No. 1\nOne year later\, Grand Funk Railroad did something that shouldn’t necessarily have worked. \nThey recorded “The Loco-Motion.” \nThe song had already been a No. 1 hit for Little Eva in 1962\, a bright piece of early-’60s pop about a dance craze. \nGrand Funk turned it into a muscular 1970s rock record. \nTheir version also went to No. 1. \nThat made “The Loco-Motion” one of the relatively rare songs to reach the top of the American charts in versions by two different artists. \nGrand Funk followed with another enormously successful remake\, “Some Kind of Wonderful\,” originally recorded by Soul Brothers Six. \nThe Grand Funk version reached the Top 10 and became another enduring part of the band’s live repertoire. \nBy then\, Grand Funk had demonstrated that it could move between hard rock\, soul\, pop and radio-friendly arena rock without losing the rhythmic weight that made the band recognizable. \nDon Brewer and Mel Schacher Are Still There\nThe Grand Funk Railroad arriving at Foxwoods isn’t the original trio. \nMark Farner hasn’t been a member of the current touring band for decades. \nBut two musicians who stood onstage when Grand Funk began in 1969 remain in the lineup. \nDon Brewer is still behind the drums and singing. In addition to writing and singing “We’re an American Band\,” Brewer provided vocals on Grand Funk recordings including “Walk Like a Man” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.” \nMel Schacher remains on bass\, preserving another essential part of the original Grand Funk sound. \nThe band’s current lineup also includes Tim Cashion on vocals and keyboards and guitarist Mark Chatfield\, a veteran of Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band. \nThat makes the 2026 version of Grand Funk an unusual combination: two musicians from the original 1969 band surrounded by players with their own long histories in American rock. \nA Change Behind the Microphone in 2026\nThis year’s tour also marks a significant transition for Grand Funk Railroad. \nLongtime lead singer Max Carl retired from touring and performing in April 2026 following a medical issue. \nCarl had spent 26 years with Grand Funk and was a familiar voice to generations of fans who saw the band after its return to regular touring in 2000. Outside Grand Funk\, he is particularly well known for his work with .38 Special\, including singing and co-writing “Second Chance.” \nHis retirement brought Tim Cashion into a larger vocal role in the current lineup. \nCashion isn’t new to the road. His career has included work with artists including Robert Palmer and Bob Seger. \nSo the Foxwoods show provides Connecticut fans with a look at a newly configured Grand Funk Railroad during a year of transition for the veteran band. \nStill Shinin’ On After 57 Years\nGrand Funk is calling its 2026 run the Still Shinin’ On Tour. \nThe title reaches back to “Shinin’ On\,” the opening track from the band’s 1974 album of the same name. \nThe numbers behind those 57 years are substantial. \nGrand Funk Railroad reports more than 25 million albums sold\, 19 charting singles and eight Top 40 hits. Its recording history includes seven gold and 10 platinum certifications. \nBut numbers don’t entirely explain why a band formed in Flint in 1969 can still fill a concert schedule in 2026. \nThe songs do. \n“We’re an American Band” remains instantly recognizable from its opening drumbeat. “Some Kind of Wonderful” still invites an audience response. “The Loco-Motion” crosses generations that may have first encountered the song through entirely different performers. \nAnd “I’m Your Captain” can still transport an FM-rock listener back to an era when a 10-minute song didn’t need to apologize for taking its time. \nOn September 4\, those songs return to a Connecticut stage. \nGrand Funk Railroad is still comin’ to our town. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Grand Funk Railroad – Still Shinin’ On Tour\nDate: Friday\, September 4\, 2026\nTime: 8 p.m.\nLocation: Great Cedar Showroom at Foxwoods Resort Casino\nAddress: 350 Trolley Line Boulevard\, Mashantucket\, CT 06338\nPerformers: Don Brewer\, Mel Schacher\, Tim Cashion and Mark Chatfield\nTour: Still Shinin’ On Tour 2026\nBest Parking: Grand Pequot Tower\nBag Policy: No shopping bags or backpacks permitted; all bags are subject to search \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/grand-funk-railroad-at-foxwoods/
LOCATION:Great Cedar Showroom\, 7 CT-2\, Preston\, 06365\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foxwoods
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SUMMARY:Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown at Foxwoods
DESCRIPTION:Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown at Foxwoods puts rock’s most enduring argument onstage Saturday\, September 5\, when two nationally touring tribute bands face off at the Great Cedar Showroom. \nOn one side is Abbey Road\, recreating the music and changing looks of The Beatles. On the other is Satisfaction – The International Rolling Stones Show\, taking on Mick Jagger\, Keith Richards and the Stones. \nThis isn’t a conventional double bill. The bands alternate sets throughout the night\, answering one Beatles run with a Stones run before eventually putting the rivalry aside and joining together for the finale. \nThe question hanging over all of it has survived for more than 60 years. \nBeatles or Stones? \nLiverpool vs. London\nThe rivalry was almost irresistible from the beginning. \nThe Beatles arrived as four young men from Liverpool in matching suits\, with carefully arranged harmonies\, enormous pop hooks and the kind of screaming audience reaction that quickly became known as Beatlemania. \nThe Rolling Stones offered something different. \nThey were bluesier. Rougher around the edges. Mick Jagger prowled across the stage. Keith Richards looked considerably less interested in behaving himself. \nIf The Beatles could be presented as the boys parents might reluctantly allow their daughters to meet\, the Stones were marketed as the alternative. \nThat contrast helped create one of popular music’s great dividing lines. \nWere you a Beatles person or a Stones person? \nBeatles vs. Stones builds an entire show around making you choose again. \nAbbey Road Takes the Beatles Side\nRepresenting the Fab Four is Abbey Road\, a Beatles tribute band that doesn’t limit itself to one period of the group’s career. \nThat matters because The Beatles changed dramatically in a remarkably short amount of time. \nThe band that appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964\, dressed in matching suits and singing “All My Loving” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand\,” looked and sounded very different from the group that created Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band just three years later. \nAbbey Road uses costumes\, instruments and staging to follow that evolution. \nThe early Beatles give way to the increasingly experimental music and imagery of the later 1960s\, allowing the show to move through different chapters of a career that lasted only about a decade but changed popular music. \nSatisfaction Answers for the Stones\nThen it’s the Rolling Stones’ turn. \nSatisfaction – The International Rolling Stones Show has been touring its tribute to the band for years\, with Chris LeGrand taking on the role of Mick Jagger. \nThat’s a formidable assignment. \nJagger isn’t simply a singer whose songs need to be performed accurately. His movement\, mannerisms and stage presence became part of the identity of the Rolling Stones. \nAnd the Stones catalog provides plenty of ammunition for a musical showdown. \n“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” \n“Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” \n“Paint It Black.” \n“Sympathy for the Devil.” \n“Gimme Shelter.” \n“Start Me Up.” \nThe songs span decades because the Rolling Stones did something their supposed rivals never had the opportunity to do. \nThey kept going. \nThe Beatles Had Seven Years. The Stones Had Decades.\nThis is where comparing the two bands becomes almost unfair. \nThe Beatles released their first UK single\, “Love Me Do\,” in 1962. By 1970\, the band was over. \nTheir period as international superstars was even shorter. \nYet during that compressed stretch\, John Lennon\, Paul McCartney\, George Harrison and Ringo Starr moved from Beatlemania through increasingly sophisticated studio albums including Rubber Soul\, Revolver\, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band\, The Beatles and Abbey Road. \nThe Rolling Stones took another route. \nFormed in London in 1962\, they built their early identity around American blues and R&B before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards developed into one of rock’s defining songwriting partnerships. \nThen they survived. \nPersonnel changed. Musical fashions changed. Punk arrived. Disco arrived. MTV arrived. Grunge arrived. \nThe Stones remained. \nThat longevity became part of their argument in the great Beatles-versus-Stones debate. \nThe Beatles changed music extraordinarily quickly. \nThe Stones became one of rock’s ultimate survivors. \nThe Rivalry Wasn’t Quite What We Remember\nThere’s one problem with the great Beatles-Stones feud. \nThe actual musicians didn’t behave much like mortal enemies. \nThe bands certainly competed\, and comparisons between them were unavoidable\, but their relationship was considerably friendlier than the mythology suggests. \nJohn Lennon and Paul McCartney even gave the Stones a song. \n“I Wanna Be Your Man\,” written by Lennon and McCartney\, became an early Rolling Stones single in 1963. The Beatles subsequently released their own version with Ringo Starr singing lead. \nMembers of the two groups socialized and followed each other’s work as both bands helped transform British popular music. \nThe public rivalry was simply too good to resist. \nThe clean-cut Beatles versus the dangerous Stones. \nPop versus blues. \nLiverpool versus London. \nLennon and McCartney versus Jagger and Richards. \nMore than six decades later\, that argument is still selling tickets. \nThey Never Gave Us the Concert This Show Imagines\nHere’s what makes the premise particularly fun. \nThe Beatles and Rolling Stones never gave audiences the great head-to-head concert that rock history seems to demand. \nThe Beatles stopped touring in 1966\, years before the stadium-rock era fully developed. \nBeatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown was created decades later to imagine what might have happened if the two catalogs had actually shared a stage. \nThe touring production launched in 2011 and has since played across the United States and internationally\, including extended casino showroom residencies. \nInstead of placing one tribute band before the other\, the production turns the competition into the structure of the show. \nAbbey Road plays. \nSatisfaction responds. \nThen it’s back to The Beatles. \nThen back to the Stones. \nThe two sides trade sets\, songs and a little trash talk along the way. \nSo Who Wins?\nThat’s up to the audience. \nMaybe it’s The Beatles\, with the extraordinary progression from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “A Day in the Life” in the space of just a few years. \nMaybe it’s the Stones\, with the opening riff of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction\,” the menace of “Gimme Shelter” and a catalog built across decades. \nOr maybe the premise eventually collapses for the same reason the original rivalry did. \nYou don’t actually have to choose. \nFoxwoods says Abbey Road and Satisfaction will come together onstage for the show’s encore\, turning the musical shootout into something the real Beatles and Rolling Stones never gave audiences. \nBoth bands. \nOne stage. \nAnd after more than 60 years of arguing about it\, probably no definitive winner. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown\nDate: Saturday\, September 5\, 2026\nTime: 8 p.m.\nLocation: Great Cedar Showroom at Foxwoods Resort Casino\nAddress: 350 Trolley Line Boulevard\, Mashantucket\, CT 06338\nBeatles Tribute: Abbey Road\nRolling Stones Tribute: Satisfaction – The International Rolling Stones Show\nFormat: Alternating sets followed by a joint encore\nGenre: Classic Rock\nBest Parking: Grand Pequot Tower\nBag Policy: No shopping bags or backpacks permitted; all bags are subject to search \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n\nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/beatles-vs-stones-a-musical-showdown-at-foxwoods/
LOCATION:Great Cedar Showroom\, 7 CT-2\, Preston\, 06365\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foxwoods
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Iglesias
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve ever seen Gabriel Iglesias live… You already know it’s not just stand-up\, it’s an experience. His current tour keeps that same high-energy\, storytelling style that made him a fan favorite\, mixing personal stories\, voices\, and those perfectly timed sound effects that somehow turn simple moments into full-blown scenes. It’s fast\, it’s animated\, and it feels like he’s pulling you into his world instead of just performing at you. \nWhat makes his shows hit is how approachable everything feels. He’ll jump from family stories to everyday frustrations to those random observations that shouldn’t be funny… but are. And then he’ll layer in the characters\, the voices\, the little details that build each bit into something bigger. You’re not just listening to jokes… you’re watching them play out. That’s where the laughs really start stacking up. \nLive\, it turns into a full-room kind of energy. Big reactions\, constant laughs\, and that feeling that the entire crowd is in sync with him. He knows how to ride that momentum too… stretching moments\, playing off reactions\, letting the night breathe a little. If you’re looking for comedy that’s lively\, visual\, and built for a crowd\, his tour delivers that in a way that feels effortless but hits every time.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/gabriel-iglesias/
LOCATION:Foxwoods\, 350 Trolley Line Boulevard\, Mashantucket\, CT\, 06338\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foxwoods
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SUMMARY:Lee Brice: Sunriser Tour at Foxwoods
DESCRIPTION:Lee Brice: Sunriser Tour at Foxwoods brings one of country music’s most successful singer-songwriters to the Premier Theater on Friday\, September 18\, for an 8 p.m. show built around a catalog that has produced nine No. 1 country singles and more than 10 billion career streams. \nBrice has spent the better part of two decades moving between two sides of Nashville. He’s the rough-edged baritone behind hits including I Drive Your Truck\, I Don’t Dance\, Rumor\, One of Them Girls and A Woman Like You. But before much of the country knew his voice\, other stars were already singing his songs. \nGarth Brooks\, Kenny Chesney\, Jason Aldean and Tim McGraw are among the artists who have recorded Brice’s work. That songwriting background remains central to a career that has earned him CMA and ACM awards\, a Grammy nomination and a collection of multi-Platinum records. \nNine Trips to No. 1\nThere isn’t one particular kind of Lee Brice hit. \nDrinking Class is a working-week anthem. Rumor rides a considerably more soulful groove. A Woman Like You and I Don’t Dance move toward romance\, while I Hope You’re Happy Now\, his duet with Carly Pearce\, is about two people discovering that moving on isn’t nearly as clean as it sounds. \nThen there’s I Drive Your Truck. \nThe 2012 recording became one of the defining songs of Brice’s career\, telling the story of someone coping with a loved one’s death by climbing into his truck and driving. \nThe song was inspired by the real story of Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti\, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2006 while attempting to rescue a fellow soldier and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Monti’s father\, Paul\, kept his son’s Dodge Ram and drove it as a way of remaining connected to him. \nBrice didn’t write I Drive Your Truck — Jessi Alexander\, Connie Harrington and Jimmy Yeary did — but his performance helped turn it into a major country hit. The song won Song of the Year at both the CMA and ACM awards. \nIt’s also a useful example of what Brice does particularly well. His biggest recordings often depend less on vocal gymnastics than on making a story sound believable. \nHe Was a Hit Songwriter Before He Was a Country Star\nBrice understands the relationship between a songwriter and the artist who eventually makes a song his own because he’s been on both sides of it. \nOne of his biggest early breaks came without his name on the front of the record. \nBrice co-wrote Garth Brooks’ More Than a Memory with Billy Montana and Kyle Jacobs. When Brooks released the song in 2007\, it did something no single had previously accomplished in the history of Billboard’s country chart: it debuted at No. 1. \nBy then\, Brice had begun landing songs with other performers as well. \nJason Aldean recorded his material. So did Tim McGraw. Kenny Chesney would eventually join the list. \nBrice was simultaneously trying to establish himself as a recording artist\, but that side of his career took longer to catch. \nHis breakthrough finally arrived with Love Like Crazy. The song spent 56 weeks on Billboard’s country chart\, establishing Brice as more than the songwriter whose work other singers were recording. \nThen the hits began stacking up. \nHis nine country-radio No. 1 singles now include A Woman Like You\, Hard to Love\, I Drive Your Truck\, I Don’t Dance\, Drinking Class\, Rumor\, I Hope You’re Happy Now\, One of Them Girls and Memory I Don’t Mess With. \nFrom Clemson Football to Nashville\nThere was a point when music wasn’t Brice’s only possible future. \nBorn in Sumter\, South Carolina\, he grew up singing in church\, started playing piano at 7 and moved on to guitar. By 10\, he was already writing songs. \nBut he was also an athlete. \nBrice played football at Clemson University before an arm injury helped redirect his attention toward music. Nashville eventually became the destination\, and songwriting became his way into the industry. \nThat history helps explain the mix that still runs through his records. \nThere’s traditional Nashville songcraft underneath music that freely borrows from rock and pop. Brice can make a large room work with a song like Parking Lot Party and then turn around and build a performance around something as restrained as I Don’t Dance. \nThe latter is particularly personal. \nBrice wrote I Don’t Dance for his wife\, Sara\, and performed it at their wedding before eventually recording and releasing it. It became another No. 1 and one of his signature love songs. \n“One of Them Girls” Had a Historic Awards Run\nBy 2020\, Brice was more than a decade removed from his first album\, but some of the biggest successes of his career were still ahead. \nOne of Them Girls became his longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart and eventually earned an unusual sweep of songwriting honors. \nThe track was named Song of the Year by the Academy of Country Music and also received song-of-the-year recognition from ASCAP and BMI. \nAround the same period\, Brice joined Carly Pearce for I Hope You’re Happy Now. \nThe duet won Musical Event of the Year at the CMA Awards and both Single of the Year and Music Event of the Year at the ACM Awards. \nThose songs appeared on Brice’s 2020 album Hey World\, which has since been certified Platinum. \nRather than settling into the role of a country nostalgia act built around 2010s hits\, Brice had managed to add another group of career-defining songs a decade after his breakthrough. \nThe Next Chapter Includes “Cry\,” Country Friends and Colbie Caillat\nBrice’s recent recordings continue moving between solo material and collaboration. \nIn 2025\, he released Cry\, followed by Said No Country Boy Ever\, which brought him together with longtime Nashville friends Jamey Johnson\, Randy Houser\, Jerrod Niemann\, Dallas Davidson and Rob Hatch. \nHe’s also teamed with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat for the duet Kinda Single. \nThe collaborations make sense for an artist whose career has always been intertwined with Nashville’s songwriting community. Brice isn’t simply handed songs after the writing is finished. He’s a songwriter himself\, with 11 co-writing credits on his 2020 Hey World album alone and decades of experience writing both for himself and other artists. \nThe Sunriser Tour gives him a catalog broad enough to move between those newer releases and songs that have been country-radio fixtures for years. \nThe Premier Theater Keeps the Show Short of Arena Scale\nFoxwoods is putting Brice in the Premier Theater\, its primary room for major touring concerts and comedians. \nThe theater sits inside The Fox Tower and offers something different from seeing the same performer in an arena. It’s large enough for a full touring production but considerably more contained\, with reserved seating and relatively close sightlines throughout much of the room. \nFoxwoods recommends The Fox Tower for the most convenient parking. \nAnyone attending should also pay attention to the theater’s bag rules. Shopping bags and backpacks aren’t permitted\, and all bags are subject to search. Ticketmaster also specifies that guests must use their assigned seats and that smoking is prohibited in and around the theater. \nFood and drinks can be purchased inside the venue\, while the surrounding resort offers considerably more options for anyone making dinner part of the night. \nOne Night\, a Lot of Country Radio History\nA Lee Brice concert presents an interesting problem when it comes time to build a setlist. \nLeave out A Woman Like You and you’re skipping a No. 1. The same is true of Hard to Love. And I Drive Your Truck. And I Don’t Dance. And Drinking Class. \nThen come Rumor\, I Hope You’re Happy Now\, One of Them Girls and Memory I Don’t Mess With. \nThat’s before getting to Love Like Crazy\, Parking Lot Party or the newer music. \nThe result is a Friday night at Foxwoods that can function as both a current tour stop and something approaching a survey of mainstream country music from the past 15 years. \nAnd underneath much of it is the part of Lee Brice’s career that started before the fame: a songwriter who figured out how to make the stories he wrote for other people work just as well when he stepped behind the microphone himself. \nDetails\nEvent: Lee Brice: Sunriser Tour\nDate: Friday\, September 18\, 2026\nTime: 8 p.m.\nPerformer: Lee Brice\nTour: Sunriser Tour\nMusic: Country\nVenue: Premier Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino\nAddress: 39 Norwich-Westerly Road\, Mashantucket\, CT 06339\nSeating: Reserved seating; guests must sit in their assigned seats\nBest Parking: The Fox Tower\nBag Policy: No shopping bags or backpacks; all bags are subject to search\nSmoking: No smoking in or around the Premier Theater \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/lee-brice-sunriser-tour-at-foxwoods/
LOCATION:Premier Theater at the Foxwoods Resort & Casino\, 39 Norwich-Westerly Rd\, Ledyard\, 06339\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jon Kondelik’s Adult Bingo Turns Bingo Into an X-Rated Comedy Game Show at Mohegan Sun
DESCRIPTION:Jon Kondelik’s Adult Bingo takes the familiar bingo card\, throws out the church-basement atmosphere and replaces it with comedians\, risqué games and decidedly adult prizes Friday\, September 18\, at Comix Comedy Club inside Mohegan Sun. \nCalling this simply “bingo” doesn’t quite explain it. \nComix presents the 10 p.m. show as part of its Comix Uncensored lineup\, combining actual bingo with an interactive\, adults-only comedy game show. Players still get cards. Numbers still get called. Someone can still win. \nIt’s everything happening between those numbers that makes this a very different Friday night. \nYes\, You Really Do Play Bingo\nThe bingo part isn’t merely a name attached to a comedy show. \nEvery guest receives one bingo card and one dabber. Players who want more chances can purchase additional sheets for $5\, with three bingo cards on each uncut sheet. \nBut conventional bingo is only the framework. \nComix describes the show as mixing adult-themed bingo rounds\, risqué mini-games and naughty prizes\, with the competition punctuated by comedy and audience interaction. \nThat also explains the late starting time. \nThe show begins at 10 p.m. and is restricted to guests 21 and older. \nJon Kondelik Is Running the Game\nComedian\, actor\, writer and filmmaker Jon Kondelik serves as the show’s game-show host. \nKondelik came to stand-up after spending years working in the film business. His screen work has included independent films and television projects\, and his acting credits have put him in productions alongside performers including Danny Trejo\, LeVar Burton\, Mariel Hemingway and Ethan Suplee. \nHis career also comes with a particularly unusual piece of personal history. \nKondelik lost several fingers in a special-effects makeup accident in 2011\, an experience that subsequently became part of his comedy material and public story. \nFor Adult Bingo\, however\, he isn’t simply delivering a stand-up set. \nHe’s essentially the ringmaster. \nThree Comedians Join the Competition\nComix says Kondelik will be joined onstage by three comedian participants and one additional “naughty host.” \nThat structure moves the night closer to an adult game show than a traditional comedy-club performance. \nThe comedians become part of the competition and entertainment while the audience plays along from the room. \nComix hasn’t announced the participating comedians for the September 18 edition\, so there’s also an element of surprise built into the evening. \nAnd given the show’s uncensored billing\, this probably isn’t the night to bring someone who gets uncomfortable when the conversation turns sexual. \nThe Prizes Aren’t Exactly Bingo-Hall Gift Baskets\nComix deliberately keeps some mystery around what players can win\, describing the rewards simply as “spicy prizes.” \nThat’s probably enough information. \nThe larger point is that Adult Bingo is designed as a late-night comedy event rather than serious competitive gambling. The bingo cards give everyone something to play while Kondelik and the other performers keep the room moving through jokes\, games and whatever unexpected situations emerge from the format. \nIt’s participatory comedy with a bingo card in front of you. \nIt’s Part of Comix’s Late-Night Side\nComix Roadhouse occupies an unusual niche inside Mohegan Sun. \nIt’s simultaneously a restaurant\, bar\, live-music venue and comedy club\, with programming ranging from touring stand-up comics and comedy magic to line dancing\, live bands\, drag bingo\, burlesque and other late-night shows. \nThe September 18 calendar demonstrates the range particularly well. \nComedian Erik Griffin performs at 8 p.m. in the Comedy Club before Adult Bingo takes over the late-night slot at 10. \nElsewhere in the Roadhouse that night\, the band He Said She Said is scheduled to perform. \nSo someone arriving early for bingo doesn’t have to make the show the beginning of the evening. \nDinner Before Naughty Bingo Is an Option\nComix specifically encourages Adult Bingo ticket holders to arrive early and eat in the Roadhouse before the show. \nThe restaurant serves a broad American roadhouse menu alongside regional craft beer and cocktails\, making it possible to turn the event into dinner and a show without leaving Mohegan Sun. \nThere is a $10 food-and-beverage minimum associated with Adult Bingo. \nThe venue remains open well after the show’s 10 p.m. starting time on Fridays. \nDefinitely Not the Bingo You Played With Grandma\nThere’s a reason Comix keeps emphasizing that distinction in its promotion. \nThe mechanics are familiar. \nThe atmosphere isn’t. \nThis is bingo reworked for a comedy-club crowd: a card and dabber in front of you\, comedians onstage\, adult humor\, suggestive games and prizes that Comix apparently believes are better left to the imagination until you get there. \nFor readers scrolling through the weekend calendar and wondering exactly what the words “Adult Bingo” are hiding\, that’s the answer. \nQuite a bit\, apparently. \nDetails\nEvent: Jon Kondelik’s Adult Bingo\nDate: Friday\, September 18\, 2026\nTime: 10 p.m.\nVenue: Comix Comedy Club at Comix Roadhouse\nLocation: Mohegan Sun\, Casino of the Earth\nAddress: 1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard\, Uncasville\, CT 06382\nFormat: X-rated comedy game show\, bingo and adult-themed mini-games\nHost: Jon Kondelik\nAge: 21+\nIncluded: One bingo card and one dabber per guest\nAdditional Bingo Cards: $5 per sheet\, with three cards per uncut sheet\nFood & Beverage Minimum: $10\nSeating: First come\, first served\nAccessibility: Assistive listening is available; inquire at the front desk\nPhone: 860-862-7000 \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/jon-kondeliks-adult-bingo-turns-bingo-into-an-x-rated-comedy-game-show-at-mohegan-sun/
LOCATION:COMIX Roadhouse\, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd\, Uncasville\, 06382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foxwoods
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SUMMARY:The Best of Steve Martin & Martin Short
DESCRIPTION:There’s something kind of rare about watching two comedy legends who genuinely enjoy messing with each other… and that’s exactly what you get with *The Best of Steve Martin & Martin Short* tour. It’s not just stand-up\, and it’s not quite a traditional show either… it lands somewhere in between\, blending sharp jokes\, playful jabs\, and decades of shared history into something that feels loose but incredibly dialed in. From the moment they step on stage\, the tone is set: this is going to be fast\, funny\, and just a little unpredictable. \nWhat makes it hit is the chemistry. Steve Martin and Martin Short don’t just perform side by side… they bounce off each other constantly\, trading insults\, building bits together\, and stretching moments in ways that feel spontaneous even when the timing is razor sharp. The show moves quickly between stand-up\, sketches\, and even music\, with Martin bringing out his banjo and Short slipping into some of his classic characters. It keeps shifting just enough that you never quite settle into one rhythm… in a good way. \nLive\, it feels more like a shared night than a scripted performance. Some parts are polished\, others feel like they could go off in any direction depending on the crowd or the moment. That mix of structure and freedom is what makes it work… you’re watching two masters who know exactly what they’re doing\, but still leave room for surprise. If you’re into comedy that’s smart\, playful\, and built on timing and personality instead of shock value\, this tour delivers in a way that’s both nostalgic and completely alive.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/the-best-of-steve-martin-martin-short/
LOCATION:Foxwoods\, 350 Trolley Line Boulevard\, Mashantucket\, CT\, 06338\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foxwoods
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