100th Anniversary of The Palace Theatre in New York City. June 3rd, 2013
An evening of Awards of Excellence from The Theatre Museum and A Variety show like those presented at The Palace Theatre.
An Award was given to Helen Marie Guditis for Distiguished Service to the Theatre. It was accepted by her brother Albert.
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Melia Bensusssen accepted the Theatre Arts Education Award for Emerson College.
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A Vaudeville Tribute to The Palace Theatre’s 100th Anniversary
Trav S.D. introduces the evening of festivities for the 100th Anniversary.
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Master of Ceremonies Todd Robbins tries to hypnotize the audience.
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Rope handler and whip cracker Chris McDaniel opened the show.
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Ariela Pizza performed a delightful song with some dancing.
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Poor Baby Bree took us back in time with her songs.
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Rod Kimball and Andy Sapora performed together.
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Rebecca Joy Fletcher dancing with Theatre Museum Chairman Stewart F. Lane during her act.
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Ron Hutchinson introduced some video clips of the Vitaphone Project of vaudeville stars projected at the end of the evening.
The Theatre Museum Awards were produced by Alyssa Renzi
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Also at the evening’s festivities was Joe Franklin and Will Jordan. Both spoke about their days in show business.
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For more information on The Theatre Museum go here.
For more information on Trav S.D go here. (Producer of the Vaudeville show this night)
For more information on The Vitaphone Project go here.
