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Shakespeare & Company Plans Gala to Open 31st Season - June 16, 2008
LENOX — Shakespeare & Company celebrates its 31st season with a Cornets and Summer Stars Gala on Saturday, June 28, to benefit its education program.
The event will include scenes and snippets of song, dance and revelry from Shakespeare's "All’s Well That Ends Well." Guests shouldn’t be surprised if a swaggering courtier or saucy lady-in-waiting greets them over the course of the evening.
Tickets are $300, $500, and $1,000 per person. Tables seating 10 guests may also be reserved for $3,000 or $5,000. All proceeds will benefit the education program. For further information, call 413-637-1199, Ext. 117, or check out the gala section www.shakespeare.org. Dress is "festive" and guests are asked to RSVP by June 18.
Gala Chairwoman Jane Iredale returns for the second consecutive year to host an evening showcasing the company's wealth of creative talents. Associate Artistic Director Michael Hammond is orchestrating the evening's entertainments; critically-acclaimed Artistic Director Tina Packer will be on hand to celebrate with excerpts from this season's production "All's Well That Ends Well," which opens June 20 in Founders' Theatre. Excerpts from the play will feature some of the company's youngest actors, ages 7 to 10, from the Riotous Youth program, teenagers from Shakespeare & Young Company I, and more "seasoned" veteran actors, who will perform scenes and songs from the show.
“As a long-time supporter, and now trustee of Shakespeare & Company, I am proud and honored to be this season's gala chair," said Iredale. "Tina and the company have done extraordinary work within the community and schools ... over the past three decades with their innovative approach to teaching and playing Shakespeare."
The evening begins at Founders' Theatre with a cocktail reception at 5:30, followed by the main program at 6:45. Dinner will be provided beginning at 8 by the Marketplace of the Berkshires, and dancing under the tent to live music by Berkshire favorites Doc Scanlon's Rhythm Boys will continue until 11.
In addition to the expansion of the Shakespeare in the Courts project and receiving the prestigious Coming up Taller award at a White House ceremony last year, the education program also launched a very successful five-month tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that traveled throughout New England this past winter and spring, performing in front of students from more than 150 schools. This fall will see the 20th anniversary of the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, in which more than 500 students from Massachusetts and New York engage in an intensive exploration of Shakespeare capped by a four-day festival of student performances at Founders' Theatre. Wild & Whirling Words, a special production created by the education program |
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