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Photo Coverage: CANY Honors Latessa and Nash

By: May. 06, 2009
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Creative Alternatives of New York (225 West 99th Street), celebrating the use of theater to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults, honored Tony Award winner & Board Chairman, Dick Latessa, and Emily Nash, Artistic Director at this year's 25th Anniversary celebration, "Broadway at the Boathouse," which held at Loeb Central Park Boathouse (at East 72nd Street entrance) on May 4, 2009.

Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) provides transformative theatre programs to New York City's most vulnerable children and adults, helping them to build new life skills and realize their potential through the art of drama. Working in partnership with leading social service organizations and health care institutions CANY provides about 1,400 theatre groups annually in residential centers, shelters, special schools, hospitals and community centers.

To donate: http://www.cany.org/donate.htm

100% of your donation goes to support our programs. 

Festivities included cocktails, buffet dinner and silent auction, and gondola boat rides followed by a special musical presentation directed by David Brind with performances by Broadway veterans Norbert Leo Butz, Keith Carradine and Anita Gillette (all of whom appeared memorably with Latessa on Broadway). The benefit co-chairs for this year's event are Cady Huffman and Manny & Lani Azenberg with Honorary co-chairs Bill Pullman and Susan Sarandon.

Photos by Linda Lenzi

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Honoree Dick Latessa

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Dick Latessa

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Honoree Emily Nash

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Emily Nash and Dick Latessa

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Emily Nash and Dick Latessa

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Cady Huffman

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Cady Huffman

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Cady Huffman

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Manny Azenberg, Jessica Ezenberg and Lani Azenberg

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Cady Huffman and Dick Latessa

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Cady Huffman and Dick Latessa

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Dick Latessa with daughters Gina and Gabrielle

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Dick Latessa with daughters Gina and Gabrielle

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Elizabeth Wilson

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Emily Nash and Elizabeth Wilson

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Emily Nash and family

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Hayley Dumond and Keith Carradine

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Hayley Dumond and Keith Carradine

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Cady Huffman and Keith Carradine

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Cady Huffman and Keith Carradine

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Tom Jones and Janet Watson Jones

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Tom Jones

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Tom Jones

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Elaine Joyce and Neil Simon

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Gregory Jbara

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Gregory Jbara

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Bill Pullman

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Bill Pullman

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Hayley Mills

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Hayley Mills

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Howard Kissel

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Anita Gillette

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Anita Gillette

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Arthur French

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Arthur French




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