Season 2, Episode 5: Behind every summer is a community that keeps Fire Island alive. This episode explores the history of the beloved Pines Pantry through the eyes of its iconic Pantry Girls, alongside the volunteer firefighters of The Pines and Cherry Grove who protect the island from fires, hurricanes, beach erosion, and an uncertain future.
Photos: TheatreWorks USA Goodworks Award Gala
By: Ben Strothmann
On October 16, TheatreworksUSA, the leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, was pleased to honor Kaki Hinton, Bebe Neuwirth and Tony Phelan with the Lee Salk Goodworks Award at its annual awards dinner and gala. The event took place at New York's famed Rainbow Room, high atop 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan.
Award recipient Kaki Hinton is Vice President of Advertising Sales for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. She is also co-chair of the Association of National Advertisers TV Committee and co-chair of the Family Friendly Programming Forum. Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth is the multi-talented star of stage and screen whose Broadway credits include Chicago, Sweet Charity, Fosse, Damn Yankees, A Chorus Line, Little Me and Dancin'. With TheatreworksUSA, Tony Phelan developed and directed a series of hour-long musicals which have delighted family audiences across the country, including Harold and the Purple Crayon, Swiss Family Robinson, The Three Pigs, Lyle the Crocodile and Super Fudge, and an alumnus of the Drama League Director's Project and Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab.
Award presenters were Walter Bobbie, Sandra Oh, and Mike Shaw. Also present or performing at the gala were Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime), John Tartaglia (Avenue Q), Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me, Kate), Jose Llana (Spelling Bee), Jason Danieley (The Full Monty), Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), Alexio Barboza (The Lion King) and more. The gala presentation was directed by Peter Flynn and choreographed by Devanand Janki.
Bebe Neuwirth (TheatreWorksUSA Award recipient)
Alexio Barboza, Jose Llana, and Kate Wetherhead
Adinah Alexander and David Josefsberg
Kiki Hinton (TheatreWorksUSA Award recipient)
Barb Pasternack, Kiki Hinton, and Ken Arthur
Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley
Laura Carrington, Alexio Barboza, and Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Tony Phelan (TheatreWorksUSA Award recipient) and Dan Bucatinsky
Robin D. Carus and Sammi Sicinski (TheatreworksUSA)
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