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Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2024 Gala:

‘The Roaring Twenties’

Saturday, March 16 Viewed from the distance “It was the perfect prelude to the main event. I also want to
of 100 years, the ’20s appear thank Marsha and Stephen, the Gala Committee and sponsors,
It’s probably the most storied decade in American history: celebratory and forward- and our wonderful board for their unwavering support and
the Roaring Twenties. F. Scott Fitzgerald popularized it looking and teeming with commitment to PBD. It’s hard to believe that next season marks
as the Jazz Age. It was an era of modernity and change. creativity. Which is why, as 25 years. We’re very proud of how the company has grown
Women were finally able to vote. Newly liberated flappers Palm Beach Dramaworks during this past quarter century, of the impact we’ve had on
sported short dresses and shorter bobs. Radios became (PBD) roars towards its the community, and the impact the community has had on us.
ubiquitous in homes, and automobiles took to the road in 25th anniversary season, the This gala is a celebration not only of what we’ve accomplished,
record numbers. Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. theme of this season’s gala but of our continuing evolution.”
The music of George is The Roaring Twenties. So, Entertainment will be provided by “South Florida’s
Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, dust off your flapper dress, Ravi Chaturvedi and Beth first couple of the Great American Songbook,” vocalist Jill
Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, palazzo pants, feather boa, Alcalde Switzer and multi-instrumentalist/composer Rich Switzer.
and Cole Porter brought and cloche hat, your three- This marks the fourth time that the Switzer Trio, which
a new, invigorating sound piece suit with wide lapels, knickers, fedora, and two-tone includes drummer/vocalist Cielo, will be performing at a
to Broadway. Uptown, oxfords. The gala takes place on Saturday, March 16, at the PBD Gala.
the Harlem Renaissance Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The members of the Gala Committee are Beth Alcalde,
brought to the fore great Marsha and Stephen Rabb are the cochairs. Penny Bank, Sue Ellen Beryl, Tina Bolton, The Honorable
Black artists, writers, and Board member Lisa Koza kicked off the festivities on Ann Brown, Stephen Brown, Esther Dinerstein, Hermine
musicians, including Zora Wednesday, Jan. 31, when she hosted a cocktail reception Drezner, Susan Ellerin, Edith Hall Friedheim, Jim Fuld,
Neale Hurston, Langston for PBD’s Board of Directors, the gala chairs, committee, Susan Goldfein, William Hayes, Lisa Koza, Carlton Moody,
Hughes, Bessie Smith, and sponsors, at Northern Trust’s Palm Beach office, where Cynthia Nalley, Mark Perlberg, Bernard Perry, Ed Ricci,
Duke Ellington, and Louis she is senior vice president and managing director. Jennifer Sardone-Shiner, Louise Snyder, and Rudina Toro.
Armstrong. Possibilities Sue Ellen Beryl and Lew “I’m so grateful to Lisa for putting together such a lovely
seemed endless. Kramer reception,” said PBD Managing Director Sue Ellen Beryl. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2024 Gala on page 12

Peter Rogers and Sid Pamela McIver and Susan Bernard Perry and Shirley Chris Storkerson and Lisa Cynthia Nalley and Michael Hermine Drezner and Bob
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