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Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Robert Cuccioli, Jack Klugman, Bill Pullman, Mercedes Ruehl, Priscilla Lopez, Tyne Daly, Michael Cerveris and lots more stars smile for our cameras.

By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton · Nov 13, 2007  · New York

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On Monday, November 12, The Acting Company held its annual gala benefit at Cipriani Wall Street. Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters provided the entertainment -- and a hug to Shubert Organization board chairman Gerald Schoenfeld, who received the company's Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award.









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The legendary Angela Lansbury -- who was on hand to support the evening's other honoree, her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury -- shared a moment with Robert Cuccioli, who's soon to star in the White Plains Performing Arts Center's production of Man of La Mancha.











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The event's many special guests included two of the theater's greatest leading ladies, Dana Ivey and Marian Seldes...











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...and veteran star Jack Klugman, who recently returned to the boards in the George Street Playhouse's production of The Sunshine Boys.













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On Sunday, November 11, Second Stage Theater hosted the opening night of Edward Albee's newest work Peter and Jerry. After the performance, the playwright (right) caught up with Bill Pullman, who stars in the two-act work with Johanna Day and Dallas Roberts.










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The star-studded opening night roster included Tony winner Tyne Daly, who will star in January in Albee's newest play, Me, Myself and I at Princeton's McCarter Theater...











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...her co-star in that sure-to-be-exciting work, Brian Murray...











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... Bill Irwin, who won the Tony for his work in the Broadway revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with producer Daryl Roth...












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...Oscar and Tony winner Mercedes Ruehl, star of Albee's The Goat and his upcoming work Occupant at the Signature Theatre...












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...Tony winner Julie White, who was in town to host the hilarious Broadway Sings the Phone Book benefit, and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale, who's wrapping MTC's Mauritius at the Biltmore...











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...another Mauritius star, the brilliant Alison Pill...













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...Tony winner Priscilla Lopez, who's set to return to Broadway next year in In the Heights...













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...the hilarious Kristine Nielsen, who's stealing the show nightly in Charles Busch's Die Mommie Die!...












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...the lovely Linda Powell, who's currently starring in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Overwhelming...











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...and Tony winner Michael Cerveris, who's starring in Lincoln Center Theater's much-anticipated production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline.












For TheaterMania's review of Peter and Jerry, click here.





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