Prose's Las Vegas-style show to benefit charity

YOUNGSTOWN -- Charlie Prose's love of comedy and singing has fueled a career that has taken him from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, and from Canada to the Caribbean to Europe.
Prose will be back in the Mahoning Valley as headliner of St. Vincent de Paul Society's 19th annual Holiday Show at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 in Edward W. Powers Auditorium.
Prose's Las Vegas-style show features this baritone singing romantic songs, playing piano and offering parodies and jokes that are inspired by marriage and family.
Prose grew up in Mount Carmel, Pa., a coal mining town near Reading, and learned to play piano at age 5. The son of a grocer, Prose was 13 when he bought a used saxophone from a cookie salesman, taught himself how to play and assembled his first band.
He studied marketing at Elizabethtown College and honed his act in clubs around Central Pennsylvania and in Wildwood, N.J., where he sometimes performed five shows a night.
Since then, he has recorded five comedy albums, one of which went gold; published a joke book; released a video of one of his performances at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City; and steadily performed in clubs about 200 days a year. Prose also performs many fund-raisers for organizations such as St. Vincent de Paul Society, which provides food, clothing and furniture to people in need.
Tickets are $10, $15 and $25. To place orders, call (330) 480-0895.