Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky to Headline DTC's Centerstage 2015 Gala

Dallas Theater Center announced today Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky will headline Centerstage 2015 on Saturday, May 9. Chaired by Yvette Ostolaza, with Underwriting Chair Kersten Rettig and Honorary Chair Jeanne Marie Clossey, Centerstage 2015 will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, which will be transformed for the evening.

Centerstage 2015 supports DTC's innovative artistic programming- with fresh takes on classics like Les Miserables and world premiere musicals like Fortress of Solitude and Stagger Lee -as well as its inspiring, life- changing and award-winning education programs like Project Discovery.

Megan Hilty is best known for playing the seasoned triple-threat Ivy Lynn in NBC's musical drama Smash for two seasons. She recently starred alongside Sean Hayes in NBC's 2014 comedy Sean Saves the World. This February Hilty will perform at Lincoln Center as part of their American Songbook series. And on June 8th she will appear in a one night only concert of Smash's original musical Bombshell in New York for the Actors Fund.

Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miz and Phantom. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination).

"Centerstage provides critical funding so that DTC can fulfill its mission of both high quality theater and significant community outreach," said Chair Yvette Ostolaza. "But the gala is also a really fun party! And we are so thrilled to have Megan and Seth joining us for the evening."

"I'm so excited to play Dallas," said Hilty. "The last time I was there I was twelve and bought cowboy boots a bunch of fake hair. I'm running low on both of those things so I can't wait to go back! Oh yeah... It'll be fun tosing too!"

"Megan Hilty is a rare combination of beautiful and funny and an amazing singer," said Rudetsky. "Even though I'm jealous of her, I can't wait to perform our show in Dallas. I've done Dallas shows before and that town loves theater!!"

Centerstage 2015 will begin at 6:30pm with a cocktail hour followed by delicious dinner, a special performance from Hilty and Redetsky and an after-party with DJ Lucy Wrubel.

Individual tickets for Centerstage 2014 are $1,000 and underwriting levels start at $2,500.

Get a sneak peek at Rudetsky and Hilty in the video!

Evening underwriters already include:

Dinner Sponsor

Pier 1 Imports

Program Sponsor

Sidley Austin LLP

Valet Sponsor

AlixPartners

Liquor Sponsor

Brown-Forman

Underwriter Party Sponsor

Balenciaga

Directors' Table Underwriters

Nancy and Clint Carlson
Deedie and Rusty Rose
Donna M. Wilhelm

Cast Underwriters

Rebecca and Barron Fletcher
Julie and Ken Hersh
Catherine and Will Rose
TurningPoint Foundation

Troupe Underwriters

Bess and Ted Enloe/Sara Crismon
Ann and Lee Hobson
Paula and Scott Orr
Helen and Frank Risch
Ruth Robinson and Family

Ensemble Underwriters

Jennifer and Peter Altabef
Mickie and Jeff Bragalone
Don Ellwood and Sandra Johnigan
Susie and Curt FitzGerald
Carol and Don Glendenning/Locke Lord LLP
Neiman Marcus
Katherine and Eric Reeves
Kersten Rettig and Clark Knippers
Kimberley and Scott Sheffield
Texas Instruments

Actor Underwriters

Tina and John Barry
Missy and David Boone
Crescent Real Estate Equities
Gil and Lynn Friedlander Family Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Mona and Bill Graue
Suzan Kedron
Maya Leibman and Robert Gross
Luther King Capital Management
Deborah McMurray and Glen Davison
Susan and Bill Montgomery
Katherine and Bob Penn
Beth and Paul Savoldelli
Robert J. Tonti
Amy and Leslie Ware
Nancy and John Weeldreyer

ABOUT DALLAS THEATER CENTER - One of the leading regional theaters in the country, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 120,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its Mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas and at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and Managing Director Heather M. Kitchen, DTC produces a seven-play subscription series of classics, musicals and new plays and an annual production of A Christmas Carol; extensive education programs, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award-winning Project Discovery, SummerStage and partnerships with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts; and community outreach efforts including leading the DFW Foote Festival and recent collaborations with the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Public Library, Dallas Holocaust Museum, North Texas Food Bank, Dallas Opera, and Dallas Black Dance Theater. Throughout its history, DTC has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones in 1978, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986, and recent premieres of FLY by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirstin Childs; Fly by Night by Kim Rosenstock, Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly; Giant by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson; The Trinity River Plays by Regina Taylor; the revised It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams; Give It Up! (now titled Lysistrata Jones and recently on Broadway) by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn; Sarah, Plain and Tall by Julia Jordan, Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin; and The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson.

 

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