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Thursday, October 18, 2007

INSIDE BROADWAY 25TH ANNIVERSARY!


Photo: Maryann Lopinto
Comments: Corine Dana Cohen


Congratulations, Inside Broadway on all of the great work. I was moved by all the wonderful work that is done to bring Broadway to inner city school children. They are the future audiences of Broadway and Inside Broadway is helping them love theater at an early age. You should have seen the kids who were there watching the performers. They were dancing in their seats and brought out the true passion of BROADWAY! Hoping Inside Broadway will continue for 50 more years.


I had the pleasure of attending INSIDE BROADWAY'S 25th Anniversary Benefit. There was a meet and greet with the press where I got to chat with playwright A.R. Gurney who was one of the most charming men I have ever met. Such a pleasure to talk with. We talked about LOVE LETTERS which was a favorite of mine. I also chatted with Danny Burstein who is a very friendly and outgoing individual. I asked him what it was like to work with Beth Leavel and he adores her and said he could not do it without her. We also giggled about the Forbidden Broadway skit. I asked him if he thought the Drowsy number was mean spirited and he didn't think so. He said it was all done in fun.(Hey he said, if she was not in the show we would have more to worry about) I wonder why they left Burstein out of the sketch.


(Press release below)

INSIDE BROADWAY ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT!


BEBE NEUWIRTH, ROGER BART(YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,) AND BROADWAY COUPLE REBECCA LUKER & DANNY BURSTEIN TO RECEIVE BROADWAY BEACON AWARDS

ROCKEFELLER GROUP'S WILLIAM G. TUNG HONORED, AT

INSIDE BROADWAY'S 25th ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT CONCERT/AWARDS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2007 AT McGRAW-HILL AUDITORIUM, ROCKEFELLER CENTER

PIA LINDSTROM TO HOST CELEBRATION OF ACCLAIMED CHILDRENS THEATER COMPANY

Karen Ziemba (Curtains), Robert Jess Roth (director of Beauty and the Beast) and playwright A.R. Gurney (Love Letters) have joined the list of Broadway stars as presenters at the October 15 Inside Broadway 25th Anniversary Gala Concert.


Inside Broadway, the innovative and acclaimed children’s theater organization founded in 1982 by Michael Presser to create the audiences of tomorrow, will celebrate its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary with a Benefit Concert on Monday October 15, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the McGraw-Hill Building Auditorium, Avenue of the Americas and 49th Street in Rockefeller Center.

(SCHEDULE: 6 PM Cocktail Reception; 7:30 PM Concert and Awards Ceremonies)

Benefit Chairs for the event are Harry Coghlan, President and General Manager, Clear Channel Spectacolor; Joseph Coppotelli, Vice-Chairman, Structuretone; L. Bradford Perkins, Founder, Perkins-Eastman; Catherine Michaelson, Principal, Michaelson Associates and Student Advisor, Harvard Law School; George Stonbely, President, Spectacular Ventures; Joseph Cabrera, Executive Vice-President, Cushman & Wakefield; and David Jaffe, President, HighRise Systems, Inc

The evening, preceded by a 6 PM cocktail reception, will feature TVs Pia Lindstrom as Master of Ceremonies, casts of several Broadway shows in performance (TBA), and the organizations annual Broadway Beacon Awards. These are given to individuals in the theatre industry who have been advocates for increasing the audience for live theatre in New York City, particularly in helping to develop new young audiences for Broadway. This years honorees will include such Tony Award-winning and nominated performers as Bebe Neuwirth star of stage and screen, Roger Bart, star of Broadways upcoming Young Frankenstein, and Broadway couple Rebecca Luker of Mary Poppins and Danny Burstein of The Drowsy Chaperone. Previous Broadway Beacon winners, many of whom have participated in Inside Broadway productions and events, have included Carol Channing, Joel Grey, Tovah Feldshuh, Karen Ziemba, Sutton Foster, and Karen Mason.

In addition, special Beacon awards will be presented by the Board of Directors of Inside Broadway to Michael Presser, the Founder & Executive Director of the organization, for 25 Years of Distinguished Service, and to William G. Tung, a member of the Board of Directors, and a Managing Director of the Rockefeller Group Development Corporation, who has also served Inside Broadway for almost 7 years

Tickets are $350.00, from Inside Broadway, (212) 245-0710, or at insidebroadway@jaffemanagement.com. More information can also be found at www.insidebroadway.org.

The company celebrated its 25th anniversary with a Broadway performance last November at the Winter Garden Theatre, for both school groups and the public, with excerpts from Broadway shows. Guest speakers at the event included Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Shubert Organization Chairman Gerald Schoenfeld and many other officials and theatre artists. The 25th Anniversary Season will continue in the fall with school workshops, a special Creating the Magic, a behind-the-scenes look at a Broadway show and the various careers in theater, and the spring production of the hit Youre A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Inside Broadway began its unique programs in 1982, at the request of Shubert Organization President Bernard Jacobs, by creating the first Broadway student ticket program, for the musical Cats. The organization also created the first educational video showing the behind the scenes at the Winter Garden Theater and created 50 minute versions of hit Broadway shows that travel to schools to introduce young people to musical theatre.


















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