Galloway Township comic wins her shot at headlining a show
Posted: Wednesday,
September 11, 2013 12:01 am
By MARTIN DeANGELIS,
Staff WriterThe Press of Atlantic City Media Group
Michelle Tomko didn't win nothing.
And that's not a grammar error. It's a correction, a statement that there's no truth in the title of a show that stars Tomko - a standup comic who lives in Galloway Township - Thursday and Friday nights at Pro Bar AC, in Resorts Casino Hotel.
"My show's name is, 'Michelle Tomko: I Won Nothing,'" she explain-ed, through a laugh. "I basically won a whole bunch of work putting this show together."
But the truth is that in an 11-week talent contest, called Pro Bar Finds A Star, Tomko did win first prize - a two-night stand as headliner at the popular club, the only GLBT bar in an Atlantic City casino.
So after 20 years of open-mike nights and "bringer shows" - shows in which the aspiring comics have to bring a posse of drink-buying friends along with them, or the comics don't go on - Tomko will at least and at last get to be the star of a show.
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