ATC IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Serenade Your Senses at

GALA 2007

Take a stroll down the Champs-Elysées.  Hear the musical genius of Fryderyk Chopin. Join Arizona Theatre Company as we celebrate our 2007-2008 season on Saturday, October 6, 2007 with its annual Gala at the historic Temple of Music and Art. For the past fifteen years, this event has launched the arts season and has become a Tucson tradition.

This year ATC will be honoring The University of Arizona School of Theatre Arts with the 2007 Georgy Award. Named for ATC’S Trustee Emeritus and benefactor George Rosenberg, the award is presented annually to individuals and organizations that have made a meaningful contribution to ATC.  For over ten years ATC and the School of Theatre Arts have successfully partnered together, creating many outstanding programs designed to give young aspiring artists opportunities for growth and experience with professional theatre. ATC has provided an excellent bridge for the students between the academic and professional worlds, helping numerous students launch their professional theatre careers. 

Gala 2007 will feature a delightful, music-filled performance by Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin, followed by a beautiful sit-down dinner with wine and dancing under the stars.

Created by the same team that brought George Gershwin Alone to life, Monsieur Chopin begins at Fryderyk Chopin’s salon at 9 Square d’Orléans in Paris.  Monsieur Chopin will teach a piano lesson that actually took place on 4 March, 1848, just days after the February 1848 revolution. As Monsieur Chopin’s piano lesson unfolds, he reveals secrets about the art of the piano and composition, as well as secrets about himself.  Considered by his contemporaries, and now by history, as the true “Poet of the Piano,” Monsieur Chopin features some of the pianist-composer’s most beautiful and enduring music. The play will be the perfect accompaniment to the elegance of the evening. 

Arizona Theatre Company’s Gala 2007 is its major fundraiser of the year to support education and community-based programs that enhance the theatre experience and foster artists and audiences for the future.

Tickets for this black-tie event are available for $200 each or a table of ten for $2,000. Reservations and ticket purchases can be made by calling Sandra Um at 520.884.8210 x 8302 or email: sum@arizonatheatre.org.

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