2024

Gloucester Stage Company

Benefit Dinner

Join us for a celebration of the Gloucester Stage Company and the continued support for live theater from our friends and community.

For 45 years our audiences have been inspired, educated, and entertained.

Friday, August 2, 2024

at Gloucester Stage Company’s

Dockside Tent on Smith Cove

behind the Theater at 267 E. Main Street

5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

SOLD OUT

Sales are currently closed for the 45th Anniversary Benefit Dinner

If you would like to placed on the waiting list for Friday’s event please contact Box Office Manager Natascha Tretter
978-281-4433 or boxoffice@gloucesterstage.com

Consider a donation to support our mission and celebrate this impressive anniversary for a contemporary theater:

Order of Evening

5:30  Cocktail Reception & Music
6:30  Welcome & Performance
7:00  Seated 3-Course Dinner
8:00  Performance & Legacy Award
8:15  Dessert, Music & Dancing

Suggested Attire

Creative Cocktail Attire

Dress requirements shouldn’t be stressful to navigate. Creative Cocktail fuses a less-structured side of evening dress with a funky sartorial twist. It’s polished but not overly dressy, unexpected but not inappropriate, witty but not over-the-top.

Evening Entertainment

Sweet Soul Sounds

Greg Coles and Nicole Harris, Vocals. Grant Clark, Percussion. Rory McKenzie, Bass. Alton Hollister, Saxophone.

Kayla Davion*

Broadway: Waitress, King Kong, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Off-Broadway: White Girl In Danger. Regional: The Color Purple, The Hippest Trip: Soul Train the Musical. TV: The Good Fight:, Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Film: Disney+ Better Nate than Ever. @KaylaDavion

 

Benefit Sponsors

Mary John Boylan
& Geoffrey Richon

Diana & Grant
Clark

Lindsay & Garth
Greimann

Judith & Harry
Hoglander

Susanna Natti
& Alan Willsky

Dr. Yvonne Smikle
& Errol Smikle

William
Taylor

Jan & Ted
Charles

Legacy Award Honoree

Jean P. Cooney

This distinguished recognition highlights an individual or couple who have played a key role in upholding the mission of Gloucester Stage. This inaugural award was created to celebrate the significant contribution the Stage Company has made to the professional theater community and thank key collaborators who have helped shape the impact our organization makes. The recipient is confirmed by vote of Gloucester Stage’s Board of Directors and reserved to a single honoree each year.

Other than her children and grandchildren, Jeans greatest love was the theatre. In the mid-sixties she acted in Rockport Community Theatre and helped start the Cape Ann Playhouse. Eventually this evolved into the Gloucester Stage Company of which Jean was one of the founders. She was on the Board of Directors and was House Manager for over 30 years. Jean was always extremely proud of her contribution to Theatre in the Cape Ann Community.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS
AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS
SAG-AFTRA
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.