Every year TRANSPORT GROUP holds its major fundraising gala, entitled Gimme A Break. At Gimme a Break, Broadway stars tell the stories and sing the songs that made them famous.
This year’s Gimme A Break honored Barbara Heller Freitag, Broadway producer, and Michael Patrick King, the writer, producer, and director of HBO's Sex and the City. The host was Broadway and television star, Julie Halston.
December 3, 2007
The Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
The evening began at 6:30 p.m.:
| • | Cocktails & heavy hors d’oeuvres | |
| • | Silent Auction | |
| • | Performance | |
| Respond by September 21, 2007 and join the Gala Committee by purchasing tickets at the following levels: | ||
| Gala Committee Producer | $5,000 | ||
| • | VIP performance seating for 10 | |
| • | Mention during the Gimme A Break performance | |
| • | Lobby display listing | |
| • | Listing in the invitation and Journal | |
| • | VIP cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. | |
| Gala Committee Director | $2,000 | ||
| • | VIP performance seating for 4 | |
| • | Lobby display listing | |
| • | Listing in the invitation and Journal | |
| • | VIP cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. | |
| Gala Committee Principal | $1,000 | ||
| • | Priority performance seating for 2 | |
| • | Listing in the invitation and Journal | |
| • | VIP cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. | |
| Gala Committee Star | $500 | ||
| • | Priority performance seating for 1 | |
| • | Listing in the invitation and Journal | |
| • | VIP cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. | |
| Single Tickets: | ||
| Star | $500 | ||
| • | VIP performance seating | |
| • | Listing in the Journal | |
| • | Cocktail reception & silent auction at 6:30 p.m. | |
| Headliner | $250 | ||
| • | Reserved performance seating | |
| • | Listing in the Journal | |
| • | Cocktail reception & silent auction at 6:30 p.m. | |
| The Gimme A Break Journal: | ||
| • | Cover page (back cover) is $4,000 | |
| • | Premier full page (inside front cover or back cover) is $2,500 | |
| • | Full page ads are $1,000 | |
| • | Half page ads are $500 | |
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TRANSPORT GROUP Humanitarian Award:
Since 2004, TRANSPORT GROUP has honored a person in the theatrical community who has demonstrated true generosity for the advancement of live theatre. Past recipients include Dr. Barry Kohn (Founder of Physician Volunteers for the Arts which provides free healthcare for those in the entertainment industry), Ted Shen (composer and philanthropist who has provided major support for modern composers for the musical theatre), and Gilbert Parker (legendary theatrical agent who brought into production major plays and musicals of the American theatre).
This year, TRANSPORT GROUP is proud to honor Barbara Heller Freitag and Michael Patrick King.
Barbara Heller Freitag has served on the Board of Directors of TRANSPORT GROUP since the company's inception in 2001, and recently pioneered The First 100, a group of donors who have made a significant multi-year commitment to TRANSPORT GROUP. As a foundng member of the Board of Directors, she has been instrumental in the development of the company's productions and events. Ms. Freitag's Broadway production credits include Butley (with Nathan Lane), Legally Blonde (2007 Drama Desk nominee), and The Drowsy Chaperone (winner of 5 Tony Awards and the 2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Muscial).
Michael Patrick King is best known as the 3-time Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer for the HBO series Sex and the City. He was also the creaor, director, and writer for the HBO series The Comeback, starring Lisa Kudrow, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Other television credits include Murphy Brown (Emmy nomination), Will and Grace, and Cybill. Mr. King started his career in New York as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He served as the artistic director of "arcade...a performance space," which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. TRANSPORT GROUP will produce a new musical Marcy in the Galaxy, co-written by Mr. King and Nancy Shayne in the spring of 2008.
Performers who appeared at Gimme A Break 2007 were:
Hunter Bell
Obie Award winner: title of show
Jeff Bowen
Obie Award winner: title of show
Danny Burstein
Tony Award nominee: The Drowsy Chaperone
Mario Cantone
Broadway: Laugh Whore, Assassins, The Violet Hour
Jerry Dixon
Drama Desk Award nominee: tick, tick...BOOM!
Anne Meara
Tony Award nominee: Anna Christie
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Obie Award and Drama Desk Award winner: In the Heights
Anne L. Nathan
Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George and Assassins
David Pittu
Tony Award nominee: Love Musik
Seth Rudetsky
Broadway: The Ritz
Daphne Rubin Vega
Tony Award nominee: Rent
Past Gimme a Break highlights:
| n | Tommy Tune discussed meeting The Manhattan Rhythm Kings on the subway and then he (and they) did an amazing routine to a Gershwin medley from their act. |
| n | Liz Callaway spoke about working on Baby and then sang “The Story Goes On.” |
| n | Debra Monk described the strange journey of Pump Boys and Dinettes and then sang the song she wrote for the show. |
| n | Boyd Gaines sang “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and spoke about how it was the song he sang for his first musical audition in college for She Loves Me —he ended up playing the busboy. |
| n | Mary Beth Peil talked about how she was the last woman to play Anna with Yul Brynner in The King and I and then she sang “Hello Young Lovers.” |
| n | Victoria Clark described missing her father’s funeral while in A Grand Night For Singing and what it was like going onstage and singing “What’s the Use of Wondering” that night. |
| n | Beth Fowler talked about being in the original A Little Night Music and what it was like when Stephen Sondheim finally finished “Send in the Clowns” and came onstage and played for it the cast—then Beth sang it herself for us. |
