Alterna Savings Crackup Announces 2017 Comedy Festival Weekend Line-up and New Ticket Package

For Immediate Release Alterna Savings Crackup Announces 2017 Comedy Festival Weekend Line-up and New Ticket Package Alterna Savings Crackup (formerly Cracking-up the Capital Comedy Festival), a Winterlude partner, will take over Ottawa and TD Place, Lansdowne Park from February 4th – 18th with its unique programming and hilarious line-up! In celebration of Canada’s 150th, Crackup offers more record-breaking attempts, more family events, more shows and laughs to raise MORE money for mental health organizations in Ottawa. Also, take advantage of Crackup’s new festival ticket package and give laughter this holiday season! Crackup loves breaking records and will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most snowmen built in one-hour at Crackup 3000 – a great event for families! Families can also experience our new Crackup Kids Comedy Show. This interactive event features kid comedians and is wholesome fun for everyone! New this year is Crackup’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Tallest Snowman! Affectionately named “Uncle Buck”, this snow giant will pay tribute to Canada’s comedic giant, John Candy! Don’t miss a laugh this year with Crackup’s NEW Festival Weekend Package. With this package you gain access to all of Crackup’s TD Place Arena events including a ticket for Ron James Live (Friday, February 17), Comedy Night in the Capital (Saturday, February 18) featuring Jonny Harris, Debra DiGiovanni, Mark Forward, Sharron Matthews, Derek Seguin and Jeremy Hotz, as well as a special Crackup for Mental Health event hosted by Crackup festival chair, Mary Walsh (Thursday, February 16) and presented by the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Tickets for TD Place Arena Alterna Savings Crackup events go on sale Thursday, November 10 at 10 a.m. Festival Weekend Packages start at $85.50. Individual Friday and Saturday tickets start at $49.50 each. Prices include tax and service charges. Save 15% with the purchase of the Festival Weekend Package. Tickets can be purchased online at www.tdplace.ca/event/alterna-savings-crackup , by phone at 613-232-6767, or in person at the TD Place box office. Ticket information for the other festival events will be available soon at Crackup.ca. And in case you can’t wait until February to attend a Crackup comedy event, you can join us at our Suburban Comedy Competitions on Tuesdays from Nov 8th – 22nd. The winners of the Suburban Comedy Competitions and the Summer Prove You’re a Comic Competition series will make up our Crackup February Comedy Competition Finals! The winner of the February Comedy Competition Finals, decided by a panel of local celebrity judges, will have the career changing opportunity to perform in front of an audience of 3,000 alongside Canadian comedy stars at our festival finale, Comedy Night in Canada! – 30 – Contact: Jackie Duhard Director, Communications and Public Relations P: 613-983-8380 E: jackie@crackup.ca