Photo Coverage: MTC Spring Gala Benefit Performance

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB presented its Annual Spring Gala on Monday, May 19, 2008, at the New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, at 53rd Street. The show featured numbers from this season's best musicals, including A Catered Affair featuring Tom Wopat, Cry-Baby, Gypsy, Jump, In The Heights, and The Little Mermaid, amongst others. Stars from the current season at MTC made special appearances, including S. Epatha Merkerson (Come Back, Little Sheba), Martha Plimpton (Top Girls), Marisa Tomei (Top Girls), Julie White (From Up Here) and Bobby Cannavale (Mauritius).

All monies raised from this annual event, including a silent auction, will benefit MTC's play and musical theatre development programs and its extensive educational outreach programs. For more information please visit www.mtc-nyc.org

Photos by Walter McBride/ Retna Ltd.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Spring Gala at the Hilton Hotel

Daniel Sullivan

Barry Grove and Daniel Sullivan

Brian D'Addario and The Little Mermaid ensemble

Brian D'Addario and The The Little Mermaid ensemble

Brian D'Addario and The Little Mermaid ensemble

Martha Plimpton (Top Girls)

Martha Plimpton

Laura Benanti (Gypsy)

Leigh Ann Larkin (Gypsy)

Leigh Ann Larkin and Laura Benanti

Leigh Anne Larkin and Laura Benanti

Leigh Ann Larkin and Laura Benanti

Julie White (From Up Here)

Julie White

Olga Merediz (In The Heights)

Olga Merediz

Elizabeth Stanley (Cry Baby)

Elizabeth Stanley

Tom Wopat (A Catered Affair)

Tom Wopat

S. Epatha Merkerson

Michael Longoria (Jersey Boys)

Michael Longoria

Cry Baby's Chester Gregory II and Ensemble

Spencer Liff and Marty Lawson with ensemble

Spencer Liff and Marty Lawson

Chester Gregory II and Ensemble

James Snyder (Cry Baby)

James Snyder

Manhattan Theatre Club's Spring Gala at the Hilton Hotel

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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