Thank you to those who helped make our 2009 Gimme A Break! Gala such a great success!
To read Playbill's article on the 2009 Gala, click here .
Stay tuned for next year's event!
TRANSPORT GROUP presents:
Gimme A Break!
honoring Terrence McNally and Joe Mantello
Monday, December 7th, 2009 6:30pm
at the Asia Society & Museum
725 Park Avenue @ 70th Street
GIMME A BREAK! features Broadway stars sharing their "big break" moments in story and song. Featuring performances by:
Chita Rivera, Rosie Perez, Martha Plimpton, Marian Seldes, Stephanie Block, Brooks Ashmanskas
Hosted by Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen of [title of show]
About our Honorees:
Terrence McNally is the recipient of four Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman.Other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, Corpus Christi, The Ritz, Some Men, A Perfect Ganesh, It’s Only a Play, Bad Habits, The Stendhal Syndrome, Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams and Deuce. His most recent play was Unusual Acts of Devotion at the La Jolla Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company. He has written the books for the musicals The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance, The Visit and Catch Me If You Can and the libretto for the opera Dead Man Walking. He won the Emmy Award for Andre’s Mother. There will be a celebration of his work at the Kennedy Center next spring, including the world premiere of a new play,Golden Age.
Joe Mantello is best known for his work as a director on the Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Assassins (Tony Award), Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), and 9 to 5. He was a member of the original Broadway cast of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. In 2007 Mr. Mantello directed The Ritz, his sixth production with playwright Terrence McNally. Mr. Mantello is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout Theater Company. He is a recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards.
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