The Old Globe Hosts Its Annual Gala 8/1, Celebrates The Premiere of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe will host its annual Gala on Saturday, August 1, in celebration of the world premiere musical The First Wives Club. The event is co-chaired by Sandra Redman and Debra Turner and is the Globe's largest annual fundraiser, celebrating the achievements of the year as well as supporting the institution's education programs.

The Gala evening begins with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a silent auction in Balboa Park's Alcazar Garden at 5:00 p.m. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. on a special performance of The First Wives Club. Following the performance, dinner and dancing will commence on the Globe's Copley Plaza, featuring music by Gary Tole and the Legends of Swing.

Tickets to the event start at $600 and underwriting opportunities begin at $2,000. For more information, please contact Events Manager Eileen Prisby at (619) 231-1941 x2303 or via email at events@TheOldGlobe.org.

A funny, moving and empowering new musical, based on the smash-hit movie comedy and Olivia Goldsmith's bestselling novel, The First Wives Club tells the story of former college friends who reunite at middle-age and soon discover they share the same unhappy story - their ungrateful husbands careened into midlife by dumping them for younger women. Inspired by their renewed friendship, the three women band together and take back their lives in style. This captivating new musical is destined to be the theatrical event of 2009.

The First Wives Club, directed by Francesca Zambello, with a book by Rupert Holmes and a score by Holland-Dozier-Holland, runs in the Old Globe Theatre through August 23, 2009.

The Old Globe is located in San Diego's Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. There are numerous free parking lots available throughout the park. Valet parking is also available ($10). For additional parking information visit www.BalboaPark.org

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The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional regional theaters and has stood as San Diego's flagship arts institution for 74 years. Under the direction of Executive Producer Louis G. Spisto, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 15 productions of classic, contemporary and new works on its three Balboa Park stages: the 580-seat Old Globe Theatre, the 250-seat Arena Stage at the San Diego Museum of Art's James S. Copley Auditorium (an interim second stage during construction of the new 280-seat Conrad Prebys Theatre Center) and the 612-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, home of its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people attend Globe productions annually and participate in the theater's education programs and outreach services. Numerous Broadway-bound premieres and revivals, such as The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Catered Affair, and the annual holiday musical, Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly successful runs in New York and at regional theatres across the country.

Photo Craig Schwartz

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