NewsPHOTO CALL: Walnut Street Theatre 202nd Anniversary Gala ConcertPhiladelphia's Walnut Street Theatre celebrated its 202nd Anniversary Gala on May 13. The event featured a 90-minute concert starring favorite Walnut Street performers followed by a VIP after-party.
By
Krissie Fullerton
June 20, 2011
All of the proceeds from the Gala benefited the Walnut Street Theatre's Education and Outreach programming, which is used to reach over 110,000 children annually in the Delaware Valley.
The annual event is held to honor members of the business and artistic communities with the Edwin Forrest Award for their contributions to American Theatre. This year, the award honored Walnut Street media partner NBC-10 and Diane Dalto Woosnam, former Chairman of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Here's a look at the gala:
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Walnut Street Theatre 202nd Anniversary Gala Concert
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.