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