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Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick spent his night off from Broadway’s Nice Work If You Can Get It hosting Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), who directed Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, performed at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Tony nominee and Festival veteran Kelli O’Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It) performed selections from the classic Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows-Jo Swerling musical Guys and Dolls with her husband, fellow Festival alumnus Greg Naughton, at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Tony and Emmy winner Tyne Daly, who appeared in Williamstown this past summer as a gun-touting Lady Bracknell in David Hyde Pierce’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, was a guest at the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Tony nominee Kate Burton, a frequent performer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson, who appeared at the Festival this past summer as Mrs. Kendal in The Elephant Man opposite Bradley Cooper, were among the special guests at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Far From Heaven star Steven Pasquale, who performed at Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom, brought along his beautiful and talented wife, Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy).
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Lauren Molina, who appeared in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2011 production of Ten Cents A Dance, brought her Skivvies band co-founder Nick Cearley as her date to the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Author Laurie Burrows Grad, the daughter of honoree Abe Burrows, was proud to be on hand to salute her father’s achievements at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Tony and Emmy nominee Dylan Baker (God of Carnage), who has spent multiple summer seasons performing and directing at Williamstown Theatre Festival, was a guest at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Board Chairman Matthew C. Harris and Artistic Director Jenny Gersten celebrated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 Benefit on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival paid tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Abe Burrows at its 2012 Benefit, which was held on Sunday, November 18 at the Edison Ballroom.
Burrows, who died in 1985, was the co-author of such musicals as Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His son, television and theater director James Burrows, serves on the board of Williamstown Theatre Festival and was one of the evening's Honorary Chairs.
The benefit was hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick (Nice Work if You Can Get It) and featured performances by such Williamstown Festival veterans as Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, who directed this past summer's staging of The Importance of Being Earnest; Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara and Drama Desk Award nominee Steven Pasquale, both of whom recently appeared in the Festival's production of the musical Far From Heaven; and Broadway star Lauren Molina, who co-starred in the musical Ten Cents a Dance.
Additional guests and performers included Festival alumni Dylan Baker, Kate Burton, Patricia Clarkson, Tyne Daly, and Greg Naughton, Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, and Laurie Burrows Grad, the daughter of honoree Abe Burrows.
Williamstown Theatre Festival, which takes place on the campus of Williams College in Massachusetts, was founded in the mid 1950s as a way of forming a resident summer theater company. Since then, the festival has brought well-known actors, directors, designers, and playwrights to the Berkshires to present new and classic plays and musicals for residents and visitors.
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