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Soaking
up
the sun. 3:30 PM. Photo: JH.
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There
were soft chilly November breezes blowing all over Manhattan last night as the town was out and about, spreading
its largesse and gallivanting around. It seemed like everyone was
getting into the act.
Over at Cipriani 42nd Street, WNYC, New
York Public Radio hosted their Gala 2005, featuring WNYC Radio’s
American Standards music host Jonathan Schwartz. Adam Guettel and
cast members of The Light in the Piazza, Victoria
Clark, Aaron Lazar, and Kelli O’Hara performed excerpts from Guettal’s
Tony Award-winning musical. Guests also had the opportunity to
mingle with other WNYC’s
on-air hosts, including Leonard Lopate, Brian Lehrer, Kurt Anderson,
and Soterios Johnson.
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Kelli
O'Hara
photo: Aubrey Reuben
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While over at
the Waldorf, in the Grand Ballroom The NYU - Hospital for Joint
Diseases held their 2005 Founder’s Gala, celebrating
the Hospital’s 100th anniversary and a major capital campaign
that will fund many of the institution’s programs for the
care of children and adults with devastating bone and joint diseases. Stone
Philips, Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC was the special guest
emcee, and Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s The
View conducted
a charity auction.
And down at Cipriani 23rd Street NYPD Police Commissioner Ray
Kelly, Actor Michael Douglas and real estate magnate Jack
Rudin were honored
by The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence During “Stand
Up For A Safe America” which benefited the initiatives of
the Brady Center and its fight to prevent gun violence. Mr. Rudin
was feeling a little under the weather, and so his niece Beth
Rudin DeWoody accepted on his behalf. Mrs. DeWoody, whose father, the
late Lew Rudin was known as Mr. New York, was all over town in
the last few days with her brother Bill who heads the family company
Rudin Management. They presented the Lew Rudin Award to former Mayor
Ed Koch at the New York Living Landmarks Benefit last
week, and on Sunday were in Central Park to present the Lew Rudin
Trophy
for the first male and female winners of the New York Roadrunners
Club participating in the New York Marathan.
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Jack
Rudin
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Meanwhile, back to business – the
Brady Center gala had an auction too, and if you were there and
feeling flush, you could
have bid on tickets to attend an upcoming Kenneth Cole fashion
show; or a dinner tour for two to six of Danny Meyer’s
restaurants; or VIP tickets to a taping of CBS’ NFL Today; along with
other spectacular items and packages. Law & Order: SVU’s Richard Belzer emceed, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury’s Amy Carlson, Rolling Stone and Men’s Health publisher Jann
Wenner with Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy presented the Messrs.
Kelly, Douglas and Rudin with their awards, respectively.
Wait, there’s more: Dance Theater Workshop held their 40th
Birthday Party (called 40 FORWARD) down at their home at 219 West
19th, inviting the world to their building-wide bash. All four
floors, with dancers everywhere, every nook and cranny. Ellis
Wood performed up and down the staircase. Brian
Rogers’ dancers
re-invented garbage cans in the trash room (you had to be there). H.T. Chen spun
in the dressing room. Spun what, you ask? Himself, they say. Susan
Marshall & Co commandeered the Executive Director’s
office. Chameckilerner snuggled up to the box
office. In the kitchen and in the hallways, offices, terrace, and
even the building’s
revolving front door, everything was brightened by dance, video
projections and digital installations. And the whole world was
invited to partake. The cast of characters included Claire
Danes, Donald Byrd, David Parker and many others too numerous to mention,
and they all were available to be relinquished on demand. (I told
you, you hadda be there.) And it was free ! Well, not really, but
yes, really: courtesy of Altria Group, Inc., (remember them? They
used to be Philip Morris).
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Wynton
Marsalis
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While
up at Jazz @ Lincoln Center, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Smithsonian
magazine and Jazz @ Lincoln Center’s “Most
Interesting People We Know” series, was featuring the legendary,
the coolest Wynton Marsalis to honor this extraordinary jazz musician.
And does anybody stay home? Well I don’t know because across
town, on the Uppah East Side, Save Venice and Salander-O’Reilly
Galleries hosted a private exhibition of new works called Venice
Now at the gallery’s new location, 22 East 71st Street.
Plus farther down the avenue, the ladies were braving the chill
November breezes wrapped in furs to get out to cocktails where
Dennis Basso, that furrier to the stars was honoring interior decorator Charlotte
Moss, and the publication of her new book, Winter
House. At a cocktail party, of course, at the House of Basso.
New York: the town where you can never say “there’s
nuthin’ to do, ma!” |
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