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become a scholarship mark your calendar! No bridges. 2012-2013 SEASON 13th No tunnels. benefactor! Annual No hassles. Saturday, October 20, 2012 Please select a series option and mark Just great performances the performances you plan to attend. Ann Hampton Callaway 2012 “THE STREISAND COLLEctION" 2013 close to home. BENEFACTOR LEVEL: Reserve two seats for four performances and dinners - $1,300. Tax deductible portion -$800. Sunday, December 16, 2012 Benefactor Name(s) as you would like it to appear on the Top entertainment... playbill: The Doo Wop Project PERFORMING ___________________________________________________ IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD! ___________________________________________________ Saturday, March 23, 2013 ARTS DINNER Make your plans now! Great entertainment...very close to home. The Berrie Center is conveniently located near Route 287, PATRON LEVEL: Sweet Baby James Route 17 and the Garden State Parkway, and offers exceptional Reserve _____ seat(s) for the following performances and “MUSIC OF JAMES TAYLOR” SERIES seating, affordable ticket prices, and always plenty of free dinners. $120/person. Tax deductible portion - $60. parking. For directions, visit www.ramapo.edu/about/visitors/ Saturday, April 27, 2013 I cannot subscribe, but enclosed is my tax deductible donation drivingdirections.html or call 201.684.7611. of $_____________. Comedy of Bruce Vilanch (YES, THE ONE FROM Ann Hampton Callaway “The Streisand Collection” PERFORMING ARTS DINNER Saturday, October 20, 2012, 8 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m. HOLLYWOOD SquARES!) SERIES COMMITTEE The Doo Wop Project Sunday, December 16, 2012, 7 p.m., Dinner 5:30 p.m. Chair, Roy Putrino Dr. Mary Ann Kezmarsky Sweet Baby James “Music of James Taylor” Elaine Adler Audrey Newman ‘93 Saturday, March 23, 2013, 8 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m. Linda Dator Francis J. Rodriguez Comedy of Bruce Vilanch (Yes, the one from Hollywood Squares!) Patty Davino Joyce Srednicki Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Eileen Leone Ann Swist Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts Frances K. Hackett ‘80 To request disability-related accomodations, please call 201.684.6834 Chair, Board of Governors at least one week in advance. 9.12 OF NEW JERSEY FAX: (201) 684.79 FAX: Mahwah, NJ 07430 Mahwah, panel with payment. Office at 201.684.7611. Complete and return this Complete 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Road, Valley 505 Ramapo Ramapo College Foundation Foundation College Ramapo Ramapo College Foundation College Ramapo [email protected] or call the [email protected] For additional information e-mail For PERFORMING ARTS DINNER SERIES ARTS PERFORMING home of Jersey Boys. Doo Wop Holiday stars leading cast members Ann Hampton Callaway from the Tony Award winning Broadway smash, Jersey Boys, and Comedy of Bruce Vilanch “THE STREISAND Collection” (YES, THE ONE FROM HOLLYWOOD SQUARES!) Visa pays homage to classic Doo Wop, the music that was inspired by Saturday, October 20, 2012 that sound, honoring songs and groups we hear all the time but Saturday, April 27, 2013 maybe more importantly, some that exist only as a memory. Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the leading champions of the Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter and great American Songbook, having made her mark as a singer, actor, a six-time Emmy Award-winner who is best known to the pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares as a celebrity and producer. A born entertainer, her unique singing style blends Sweet Baby James participant. In the entertainment industry, he is best known as Mastercard jazz and traditional pop, making her a mainstay in concert halls, “MUSIC OF JAMES TAYLor” head writer for the show. theaters and jazz clubs as well as in the recording studio, on Saturday, March 23, 2013 He wrote jokes for Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Roseanne Barr, Bette television, and in film. She is best known for her Tony-nominated Midler, Rosie O’Donnell, Paul Reiser, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Tyler performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! and for writing Some concerts feature complete renditions of an artist’s of Aerosmith, and Robin Williams. Vilanch has been writing for Discover and singing the theme song to the hit TV series The Nanny. breakthrough album; others take the form of an overview of his/ the Academy Awards since 1989, providing topical joke material her body of work. In a fitting “hats off” to one of the greatest for the show’s hosts and he is a featured writer for the Tonys, song stylists of the 20th century, Sweet Baby James: The Music of Grammys and Emmys. The Doo Wop Project James Taylor features a generation of singer/musicians influenced Sunday, December 16, 2012 by James Taylor. This ensemble of seven (playing piano/synth, guitar, bass, drums, cello vocals) stars Bob Stillman as lead vocalist For complete performance information, The Doo Wop Project is a night of songs mixed with individual and one of New York City’s leading club and studio singers, Connie please visit our website at: stories and references to their roots and experiences in the James. Together, they render versions of Taylor’s classic bittersweet business, particularly backstage at the August Wilson Theatre, country rock songs built around love, friendship, loss and life. www.ramapo.edu/foundation/events/arts American Express E-mail Address for Performance Reminders ______________________ Reminders for Performance E-mail Address Signature Date ____________________________________________ Name as it appears on the card _______________________________ Evening Phone ____________________________________________ CV Number _______________________________________________ CV Credit Card Number ____________________ Expiration Date _______ Number ____________________ Expiration Credit Card City, State, Zip _____________________________________________ State, City, Name ____________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________ Address Daytime Phone ____________________________________________ credit card: by Payment .
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