The final performance of City Center Encores! last offering of the season, Stairway to Paradise, also served as a benefit for the popular series. The show’s stars, including headliners Kevin Chamberlin, Kristin Chenoweth, and Christopher Fitzgerald gathered after the show at Seppi’s in the Parker Meridien to celebrate.
Two more stars of the show, which saluted 50 years of the theatrical revue, were tap dancing sensation Kendrick Jones and the adorable Jenn Gambatese.
Here’s Shonn Wiley, another Paradise standout, with his wife Meredith Patterson, who starred in the previous Encores! outing, Face the Music.
The gala drew a star-studded crowd, including one of television’s favorite performers, Debra Messing, soon to be seen in the USA miniseries The Starter Wife…
…Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, who have long been great supporters of City Center…
…as have their Connecticut neighbors and great pals, James and Pamela Naughton.
Among the many other luminaries on hand were Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, who gave a brilliant performance earlier this year in the Encores! production of Follies…
…fellow Tony winner Harriet Harris, soon to return to Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre’s production of Old Acquaintance…
…A.R. Gurney, whose new play Crazy Mary is currently in previews at Playwrights Horizons…
… composer Jerry Bock, whose credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, She Loves Me, and Tenderloin…
…60 Minutes‘ famously cranky commentator, Andy Rooney…
…and the always glamorous Polly Bergen, who made her Broadway debut in 1954 in the revue John Murray Anderson’s Almanac.
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