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a guest of the Park Avenue Armory for the dinner, which was held on the second floor of the building with tables set up in the long corridor and in two of the historic Seventh Regiment club rooms that are still in the process of restoration, returning to their 19th-century interior decoration. Dinner guests were greeted on the second-floor landing by waiters in white jackets serving up 2004 Moët & Chandon Dom Pérignon Brut—which hit the spot, and then again. The dinner was attended by the cast. It was only half an hour after the show that Sir Kenneth appeared, out of costume and makeup and in 28 QUEST
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a business suit, taking the microphone in hand and greeting all the guests. He was a welcoming host, thanking people for being there and urging everyone to enjoy the evening. Among the 200 or so guests were Colin Callender (producer), Rebecca Robertson (president and executive producer of the Park Avenue Armory), Alex Poots (artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory), Elihu Rose (co-chairman of the Park Avenue Armory who helped in its establishment with the late Wade Thompson). Also, Adam Flatto (co-chairman of the Park Avenue Armory), British Consul General Danny Lopez and his
Barbara Taylor Bradford and Liz Smith
Marcia Sherrill, Christopher Mason and Thomas Johnson
wife, Susan Lopez, Sir Peter and Lady Westmacott, Martin Scorsese, Helen Schermerhorn Morris, Francesca Scorsese, Anna Wintour, Kate Beckinsale, Willem Dafoe and Giada Colagrande, Daniel Radcliffe, Neil Patrick Harris, Matt Bomer, Kristen Chenoweth, Bebe Neuwirth, Janna Bullock, Felicia Taylor, Jay and Tracy Snyder, Jamie Tisch, Lola Kirke, Lorraine Kirke, Daniel Loeb, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney, Edmond and Marielle Safra, Mickey and Peggy Drexler, Richard and Kathy Fuld, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Amy Fine Collins, Tiffany Dubin,
Alfred and Judith Taubman, Cora Cahan and Bernard Gersten, Angela Thompson, and Lynn Wyatt. The Park Avenue Armory, originally known as the Seventh Regiment Armory, was completed in 1880, built with private funds for the Seventh New York Militia Regiment in what was known through the 1970s as the Silk Stocking District of Manhattan (now the Upper East Side). A large number of its original militia members were among the city’s elite. Many of their portraits remain hanging in its corridors and meeting rooms. The library, which was known as the Silver Room or Trophy
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Vanessa Noel and Joey Mills