Our Time Theatre Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an artistic home for young people who stutter, will hold its Fourth Annual Benefit Gala and continue its tradition of honoring a person who has been an inspiration to those with this affliction.
The benefit will take place on Monday, June 12, 2006, with an all-star
performance at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at
7PM. Celebrities will perform original work written by and with the
young people who stutter in Our Time. The show will be followed by a
sit-down dinner at 8:30PM at The Rosenthal Pavilion at New York
University.
This year's Our Time Award will be presented to Bob Love, former
Chicago Bull and a legend in the world of basketball. The evening will be hosted by
Paul Rudd, who is currently on Broadway in
Three Days of Rain, and who has appeared in plays such as
Bash and
The Shape of Things, as well as in films such as
The Forty Year-Old Virgin, Clueless, and
The Cider House Rules.The 2006 Honorary Chairs are Tony Award winners
John Lithgow,
Phylicia Rashad, and Academy Award winner
Marisa Tomei. Performers include: the casts of
STOMP and the Tony Award winning musical
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Anthony Rapp and
Daphne Rubin-Vega (
Rent),
Matthew Modine (
Married to the Mob), Chris Noth and Evan Handler ("Sex and the City"),
Ken Roberson (the choreographer of the Tony Award winning musical
Avenue Q),
Mary Testa (
See What I Wanna See), Tiffany McElroy (WB 11 Morning News), Ed Sherin (Former Executive Producer and Director of "Law and Order"), and Tony Award winner
B.D. Wong (
M. Butterfly, "Law and Order").
Both the The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and the Rosenthal Pavilion are housed in NYU's Kimmel Center (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South). Tickets for performance only are $100. Individual Tickets for dinner and performance are $300/$750. Tables for dinner (which include the performance) are $10,000/$25,000/$50,000. For tickets and information, please call (212) 414-9696, or visit
www.ourtimetheatre.org.
