Photo Flash: Porchlight Music Theatre Hosts 8th ANNUAL GALA BENEFIT

Eric Bramlett, a founding member of Porchlight Music Theatre and wife Kristi, both of Naperville, Illinois attended Porchlight's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton. Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated 15 years of musical theatre excellence with the 8th Annual Gala Benefit: Time and Music; Looking Back, Moving Forward.

Longtime Porchlight supporters Jay and Tamara Sims of South Elgin, Illinios, attended the theater's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton. Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated 15 years of musical theatre excellence with the 8th Annual Gala Benefit: Time and Music; Looking Back, Moving Forward.

Glencoe's Laura Lederer, a Porchlight Music Theatre Advisory Board member, and her friend Karen Weil of Highland Park, attended Porchlight's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton. Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated 15 years of musical theatre excellence with the 8th Annual Gala Benefit: Time and Music; Looking Back, Moving Forward.

Ray and Patt Fiala of Palos Park, Illinois enjoy the evening's festivities at Porchlight's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton. Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated 15 years of musical theatre excellence with the 8th Annual Gala Benefit: Time and Music; Looking Back, Moving Forward.

Porchlight Music Theatre board member Ron Zoromski and his wife Judie, of Park Ridge, Illinois, attended Porchlight's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton. Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated 15 years of musical theatre excellence with the 8th Annual Gala Benefit: Time and Music; Looking Back, Moving Forward.

About Porchlight Music Theatre
Porchlight Music Theatre is Chicago's music theatre leader; producing award-winning interpretations of classic musicals and cutting-edge new works on intimate stages. The company has staged 36 shows including four world premieres, among them, The Teapot Scandals, its first work developed through Off the Porch, Porchlight's new works program, as well as seven Chicago premieres. Porchlight earned the most Jeff awards of any Chicago music theater and the most After Dark Awards of any Chicago theater in 2007. An Equity theater since 2004, the company has already received a total of 33 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations resulting in 11 Jeff Awards.

Porchlight Music Theatre is partially supported by generous contributions from the A.R.T League, the William Blair & Company Foundation, Capri Capital, LLC, a City Arts Program 2 Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council (a state agency), the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Nine North Michigan Surgery Center, Peoples Energy, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Summer Street Theater Program.

Ron & Judie Zoromski

Ray & Patt Fiala

Laura Lederer & Karen Weil

Jay & Tamara Sims

Eric & Kristi Bramlett