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Poetic License

The fifth annual Poetry Life weekend focuses on inspiring the next generation of poets.

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James McCampbell has been training and teaching the leading animators in the field for the last 20 years at the Ringling College of Art and Design.

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DOMINATION Ringling College of Art and Design uses real-world experience to prepare its alumni to work for some of the biggest names in computer animation.

Abstract Thought

Lori Simon, former Realtorturned-artist, has always had an eye for creative spaces.

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t’s admitted-students day at the Ringling College of Art and Design, the day incoming freshman get their first in-depth look at their creative home for the next four years.

Those interested in computer animation have certainly heard of Ringling College’s lauded computer animation department, which has produced countless animators who have gone on to animation studio behemoths, such as Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks.

But seeing is believing. As the students exit the elevator onto the third floor of the Ulla Searing Student Center, their mouths drop open. “Wow” is the most commonly used word as they tour the heart of the computer animation and game art department. PAGE 2

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ANIMATION DOMINATION: School to Industry The department’s halls are wallpapered with movie posters from contemporary animated classics such as “Toy Story,” “Tangled,” “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Frozen” — proof of Ringling’s pedigree of past students. Twenty years’ worth of movie posters fill the walls, with plaques underneath each poster listing the names of the Ringling alumni who had a hand in the movie’s making.

Two new films whose posters will be added to the wall this year are the short film “Feast” and the feature-length film “Big Hero 6.”

They are both Disney films, and both won Oscars in their respective categories at the 2015 Academy Awards.

So what’s the secret behind the computer animation department churning out countless industry-ready animators? Real-world experience.

In the department’s non-traditional classrooms, computers line the walls, ready for students to use.

“If you walk around and look at the classrooms, it looks like a studio,” says James McCampbell, who heads the computer animation department at Ringling. “So, it’s an easy transition after college.”

This professional environment with 22 faculty members is combined with a full curriculum of courses including six courses on computer animation, as well as courses in drawing, 3-D design, traditional animation, the history of computer animation, film and narrative, concept development, animation preproduction, general art history and a final short ani-

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“Story is at the heart of everything that we do. Everything. ...

After everyone has had enough food, water, the next thing that they want is to be told a good story. It’s central to everything that we’ve got going on.”

— James McCampbell, left, head of Ringling College of Art and Design’s computer animation department

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Computer animation majors at Ringling College learn animation basics to eventually be able to create their own original short films.

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Since the dawn of the modern computer-animation age in 1995 with the release of Pixar Animation Studios’ “Toy Story,” McCampbell has been at Ringling College teaching and advising. In the last 20 years, McCampbell has adapted his individual courses and the department’s curriculum to the rapidly changing technology industry.

When he first arrived at Ringling, computer animation had to be done on a now-defunct processor called a silicon graphics machine, which cost approximately $275,000. Ten years later, the cost of the animation technology decreased by $200,000.

“The curse of new technology is having to take the time to learn all those new things,” says McCampbell. “How do we rewrite the curriculum so that it incorporates and adopts that new stuff? The blessing part is that the new stuff enables us to do things we couldn’t do before. Now your

imagination can run a little freer.”

McCampbell became interested in art and design through his architect father. His mother also gave him and his sister drawing lessons every day.

He earned a B.F.A. in graphic design from the University of Tennessee. He worked as an art director for various advertising agencies, but the workload took a toll — he often wouldn’t leave the office until 1 a.m.

McCampbell has always loved computers, and when computer animation software came out in the late 1980s he taught himself the basics. He saw Ringling’s ad for a computer animation faculty member in Post Magazine and knew he had found his new path.

“My first class gave me the nickname of ‘The Anvil’ because I came down on them so hard,” says McCampbell. “I held them to professional standards and spoke to them the same way that I would have spoken to the artists who had worked for me. I suppose

I was unconventional.”

Students from their freshman through junior year learn the basic animation, technology and storytelling aspects of the art form. In the semester before their senior year, students develop and create the basic story tenets for their own short film. They spend their senior year writing, directing, animating and producing their two-minute animated pieces.

Two minutes may not sound that long, but using the standard 24 frames per second, 2,880 frames are needed to create one short story.

“On a typical top-shelf animated feature film today, there might be 100 to 150 animators working on that film,” says McCampbell.

“And the film only runs 90 minutes. It will be in production from anywhere to two to five years, or in the case of ‘Tangled,’ almost a decade. It took that many animators just doing the animation, not any of the lighting and the texturing, just the animation to do 90

minutes, and this student, not a professional, popped out two minutes in two semesters. Proportionally, you can see what an amazing feat this is.”

Seniors Kven Temmer and Isabella Pinho have been producing their short films since last spring, beginning in their preproduction class. They say their senior year has been filled with late nights and plenty of caffeine.

Temmer’s film is “Aloha Hohe,” an animated musical set among an aboriginal tribe in Hawaii.

An avid ukulele player, Temmer composed all of the music for his short, which he calls a love letter to the Disney movies of his youth.

Pinho’s film, “None of That,” centers on a nun who breaks into an art museum to censor all the nude artwork. Her film was a group project, which presented its own unique set of challenges.

“It was completely different from anything else I’ve ever done,” says Pinho. “It was an experience that requires commitment. I learned a lot about myself and what’s required to work in a group.”

It’s this marathon achievement that has produced animators who have gone on to work at animation powerhouses. For McCampbell and his students, seeing the growing string of movie posters on the wall each year is a daily dose of animation inspiration.

“Story is at the heart of everything that we do. Everything,” says McCampbell. “I frequently say in talks with incoming freshman parents that human beings have that at their core. After everyone has had enough food, water, the next thing that they want is to be told a good story. It’s central to everything that we’ve got going on.”

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR STUDENTS The goal of the Ringling College of Art and Design’s computer animation department is to train students to work in the conditions of the mainstream animation studios such as Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. Here are just some of the vast number of films on which Ringling alumni have worked: n “Frozen” n “Big Hero 6” n “Wreck-It Ralph” n “How to Train Your Dragon, 1 and 2” n “Monsters University” n “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” n “Rio 2” n “Rise of the Guardians” n “Epic” n “Mr. Peabody and Sherman”

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‘NEVER MARRY A GIRL WITH COLD FEET’ John C. Court Cabaret, Florida Studio Theatre 7:30 p.m. April 23, 26 and 29; 6 p.m. April 24, 25 and 28; 9 p.m. April 24 and 25 Runs through June 7.

Ticket: $18 to $36.

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‘YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY’ Players Theatre 7:30 p.m. April 23, 25, 28 and 29; 2 p.m. April 25 Runs through May 3.

Tickets: $25 to $30.

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‘SPUNK’ Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe 8 p.m. April 23, 24, 25, 28 and 29; 2 p.m. April 26 Runs through May 17 Tickets: $29.50.

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‘CHAPATTI’ Gompertz Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre 8 p.m. April 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 29; 3 p.m. April 25 and 26 Runs through May 30.

Tickets: $18 to $39.

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‘CHICKEN SHOP’ Urbanite Theatre 8 p.m. April 23, 24, 25 and 29; 2 p.m. April 26

‘SOTTO VOCE’ Historic Asolo Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre 8 p.m. April 23, 24, and 25; 2 p.m. April 25 and 26 Runs through April 26.

Tickets: $15 to $40.

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‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’ Cook Theatre, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training 8 p.m. April 23, 24, and 25; 2 p.m. April 26 Runs through April 26.

Tickets: $14.50 to $29 Call 351-8000.

KATHY GRIFFIN 7 p.m. April 26 Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tickets: $52.62 to $63.32.

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‘LUCK BE A LADY: THE ICONIC MUSIC OF FRANK LOESSER’ Mertz Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre Previews 7:30 p.m. April 28; 8 p.m. April 29 and 30 Runs through May 24.

Tickets: $11 to $54.

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MUSIC CHAMBER SOIREE 7: VIOLIN DANIEL JORDAN, CONCERTMASTER, SARASOTA ORCHESTRA 5:30 p.m. April 23 Tickets: $30 to $39.

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The cast and crew of Florida Studio Theatre’s original cabaret production, “American Pie,” convened in December to begin rehearsals. The show is a slice of the American folk, rock and singer-songwriters who responded to and were influenced by the musical explosion of the British Invasion (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks) in the mid-1960s. Now icons of the contemporary American songbook, then unknown musicians such as Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Carole King, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel and Bob Dylan made their own history in response to the musical explosion from across the pond.

In capturing the music and feeling of this era, FST Artistic Director Richard Hopkins and Managing Director Rebecca Hopkins made FST history in the process. “American Pie,” which opened in the Goldstein Cabaret on New Year’s Eve, has been extended for a second time through May 10.

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‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’ Sarasota High School 7 p.m. April 23, 24 and 25; 2 p.m. April 25 Tickets: $12 for adults; $8 for students/seniors.

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By the time the lights dim for their final performance, the five-person cast of actors, performers and musicians will have performed “American Pie” a total of 158 times over a span of 19 weeks. Cast members Joey Barreiro, Tony Bruno, Joe Casey, Sarah Hund and Ben Mackel have set the record for longest-running cabaret production in the theater’s 40-plus year history.

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‘American Pie’ When: 7:30 p.m. April 23, 26 and 29; 6 p.m. April 24, 25 and 28; 2 p.m. April 26 Where: Goldstein Cabaret, Florida Studio Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave. Tickets: $18 to $36 Info: 366-9000

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Intimacy and connection are at the heart of Poetry Life, a weekend of poetry readings and talks with students, adults and visiting professional poets.

Instead of just passively listening to poets read their works, festival attendees interact with them. It’s an equal exchange of art and ideas.

“Poetry Life is very different from other poetry festivals going on in the United States,” says founder Georgia Court, owner of Bookstore1Sarasota.

Court says most poetry festivals feature adult poets speaking on a panel, with an audience of adults who wish to be poets.

“That’s the typical festival, but that’s not what Poetry Life is about,” she says. “The majority of our events are engaging with the community and discussing what poetry means to a community and to people every day.”

The roots of the festival — and Court’s love of poetry — lie in the Chautauqua Institution. Founded in 1874 and located on the western tip of New York on Lake Erie, the Chautauqua Institution is a nonprofit education center that attracts world-renowned artists, writers, poets, musicians and academics each summer to interact with audience members who wish to learn more about a given topic. Court started attending Chautauqua in 1991. Now she hopes to bring a little piece of Chautauqua to Sarasota.

What started as a poetry reading project with amateur poets read-

“I want to put the main emphasis on the students because I think people become lovers of literature and the arts when they’re very young. That’s our real focus, because I want students to grow up loving poetry and not be afraid of it.”

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ing some of their favorite poems has turned into a poetry mecca with readings and talks by some of the most esteemed contemporary poets. This year’s featured poets include Marie Howe, New York state poet laureate, 2012 to 2014; Billy Collins, United States poet laureate, 2001 to 2003; and Tracy K. Smith, the recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

It’s also become a showcase for student poets. Sarasota County students submitted 196 entries this year to the “Young Voices Poetry Reading” contest. The poems were then sent to Vanderbilt University’s M.F.A. creative writing program and evaluated through a blind judging process.

This year, 15 middle and high school students from Booker High School, Sarasota Military Academy and the Student Leadership Academy were selected as finalists who will read their poetry during the festival.

“I want to put the main emphasis on the students because I think people become lovers of literature and the arts when they’re very young,” says Court. “That’s our real focus because I want students to grow up loving poetry and not be afraid of it.”

Payton Saturen is one of the Booker Middle School students chosen to read her work. The eighth-grader has been writing poetry since becoming involved in her school’s poetry club, Dragonfly Café, two years ago. Saturen and her classmates write their own poetry while studying the classics of the past. She says she’ll continue to write her own poems when she begins high school in the fall.

The young poet is a regular at the Poetry Life weekend event.

She read some of her favorite poems in sixth grade at the event and has submitted poems every year for a chance to read them in front of the poetry community and her friends and family.

“I like writing in the dark,” says Saturen. “I like it at night because you can then look back on the day and think about your emotions throughout the day. And I like writing in the rain because it’s soothing. Poetry has really helped me grow, not only in my writing but also as a person.”

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“When I first started painting I was working on canvas. I worked with acrylics on canvas. This was the type of work I was doing for many years. I always liked painting big and with my body. I’d put on music and use my whole body while painting. “

STUDIO SPACE: LORI SIMON Though Lori Simon has retired from the real estate industry, the abstract artist is still making deals from her cozy studio space.

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ori Simon has always had an eye for a space. Born in Michigan, Simon studied fine art and art history at the University of Michigan, where she studied master artists and their use of space on the canvas. After graduation, she put her artistic mind to use in creating an inviting home for her family.

Once her children grew up and went to college, Simon and her husband, David, moved in 2004 to Lido Beach from Michigan. The Simons decided to focus on area real estate and established a realty business partnership. However, Sarasota’s dynamic cultural and artistic community reignited Simon’s artistic spark.

She left the real estate business to focus on her artwork full time in late 2012. She began in her garage but invested in a studio space in the Rosemary District in February 2014. Her return to her creative passion has been an affirming endeavor.

Simon’s abstract and expressionistic work has found fans at Art Center Sarasota and commissions with PNC Bank and Saks Fifth Avenue, where her work currently hangs. Saks enjoyed Simon’s work so much that the company ordered an additional 26 pieces for a new Saks Fifth Avenue in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“I started painting on paper about a year and a half ago. I did a lot of reading on Asian art and on quieter and zen things. I like the minimalist work, and my work started getting quieter.”

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“I wake up every morning and I can’t wait to get here. The success has been a total surprise, but I do it because I love to do it.

It’s been a lot of work and a lot of fun.”

“The energy here is really great because there are a lot of artists in this building. The light is great. I blast my music, and I have my dog here — I’m happy as can be. I set my clock to remember when to go home.”

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Gloria Musicae has come a long way since Joseph Holt took over as artistic director. For one thing, the group of all-professional, all-paid singers has taken on a much younger look and sound.

But it’s also started delving into repertoire that’s made it an adventurous, exciting ensemble that could easily match powers with major professional choral forces around the country. In short, it’s living up to its name.

The program Gloria Musicae presented recently at Sarasota’s First United Methodist Church, with the excellent singers of the State College of Florida Chamber Choir, soloists and the Gloria Musicae Chamber Ensemble (made mostly of players from the Sarasota Orchestra), opened with the rarely performed “Messa Di Gloria” by Giacomo Puccini. This is a primarily joyful, energetic, beautiful work that Puccini wrote when he was just 22. In fact, he wrote it about six years after Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem” was premiered, and it sounds, in part, much more like Verdi than Puccini, showing that Puccini cleverly knew what worked and what would be popular at the time.

The first two movements — the kyrie and gloria — have wonderfully rhythmic, exciting sections, and some of them are so filled with Verdi’s harmonies and bass lines one would swear they were written by that composer and not Puccini. The credo opens with a minor, menacing theme, with the chorus in unison, followed by a rich tenor solo, chorus and bass. But the final two segments — the sanctus/benedictus and agnus dei, give the feeling Puccini had had enough and wanted to move on to bigger, more theatrical works and, as a result, the Mass, which starts with such exuberance,

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Still, the performers were excellent, with the choral forces singing clearly and succinctly with harmonic and verbal perfection. Holt held the ensemble together so entrances and final consonants were together and accurate. Tenor Adam Bielamowicz was in fine form, and, although bass-baritone James Shaffran spread some tones on top and sounded raw in the lower parts of his range, the middle of his voice was quite beautiful and warm.

The second part of the concert was devoted to contemporary composer Ola Gjeila’s “Sunrise Mass.” Using overlaying sounds, very much like Paul Winter and the Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, the chorus, in perfect harmony, managed to produce several moments of harmonics and overtones that were both beautiful and spine-chilling. The “amen” sections were simply stunning, and the shimmering sounds they produced proved Holt can elicit great music from his forces.

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‘Chicken Shop’ rattles cages at Urbanite Theatre IF YOU GO

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“Chicken Shop” is not for chickens.

To paraphrase William Goldman, “Hollywood films tell us truths we already know or falsehoods we want to believe in. Hollywood films reinforce, reassure. Independent films have a different agenda. They tell us things we don’t want to know. Independent films unsettle.”

The same can be said of independent live theater.

Case in point: Anna Jordan’s “Chicken Shop,” the Urbanite Theatre’s debut offering and the play’s United States premiere. It offers unsettling realities for the politically correct and traditionally moral alike. It’s damn fine theater.

And a damn sad play.

The plot is a collision between adolescent angst and sex trafficking in New York City. A 16-year-old kid tagged with the awkward name of Hendrix (Joseph Flynn) becomes bully bait when the other kids at school find out that his mom is in a same-sex relationship. (Cruel adolescent logic dictates that if Hendrix’s mom is gay, he must be gay — and must be punished.)

Desperate to prove his nongayness, Hendrix starts looking for a prostitute. An ad in The

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Village Voice leads Hendrix to Luminita (Ashley Scallon) — a sex-trafficking victim who lives above a chicken shop in virtual slavery under the brutal oversight of Leko (Jason Bradley). Hendrix has no clue; he thinks she’s earning her tuition for NYU. Luminita and Hendrix postpone the dirty deed and form a tentative friendship. Ultimately, he figures out the score — and is helpless to save her. (Leko promises a vile fate to Luminita’s little sister if she ever escapes.)

His mother, Hilary (Lauren Wood) and her lover, Katie (Lucy Lavely), are helpless to save him. Hendrix hits the road to find his female father figure (and mother’s previous lover) at the Sturgis motorcycle rally.

Jordan’s material is wellwritten and tough-minded. It jumps back and forth between the upper-middle-class problems of Hendrix’s home life and the soul-destroying hell of Luminita’s sexual slavery.

Director Barbara Redmond creates the exact right tone: a

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sense you’re eavesdropping on real people in real situations, disturbing or quirky though they may be. Monica Cross’ costumes and Rick Cannon’s excellent set (a clever adaptation to the Urbanite Theatre’s shotgun shack space) help bring that reality home.

The actors do what all good actors do. They convince you they’re not really acting. Flynn nicely captures the essence of his character — a multilayered, gifted kid in at the peak of puberty who’s trapped in a no-win situation.

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Wood’s Hilary is a sympathetic character getting over the loss of one lover and trying to placate the diva needs of the replacement while raising her conflicted son. Lavely is excellent as the diva in question — Katie’s supposed to be obnoxious and sexually teasing to poor Hendrix. But Lavely’s so full of charismatic brio she makes her character hard to hate. As the thuggish pimp Leko, Bradley conveys a sense of genuine menace and a sickening mastery of the art of intimidation. Scallon’s take on

Luminita is nothing less than shattering. Her character is shutdown, blanked out, pulled in — a perfect picture of PTSD. The name Luminita means “little light.” But you know she’s not going to get a chance to shine.

In case you haven’t noticed by now, this is not mainstream fare. Occasional nudity and profanity that’d make David Mamet blush isn’t really the issue. The truths at the heart of the play are. “Chicken Shop” has a lot to say — and it’s not what most people want to hear.

The separate peace of the counterculture is an illusion — at least if you’re raising a family. The culture punishes your kid if you don’t conform.

Teenaged testosterone and the earth-friendly, non-sexist, vegan lifestyle don’t mix. All boys are bad boys, but that’s not simply glib and cute. The sex industry feeds off bad-boy needs — and it’s an industry that increasingly owns its workers. Their lives don’t resemble “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”

The lessons of the play?

They’re more like inconvenient truths. This is an inyour-face slice of life, not an afterschool special. So, what do you do with these truths?

Jordan offers no easy answers — except think about them. If you dare.

“Chicken Shop” is not for chickens, folks. It’s not for everybody, but hardcore theater fans will love it. The gutsy Urbanite Theatre is betting there are enough of them around here to make it worthwhile.

I’d say it’s a good bet.

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What a swell party it was!

Beatrice Friedman, lovingly known as the “lady of the lobbies” for her generosity to so many Sarasota nonprofits, turned 95 April 9 and celebrated April 12 at Michael’s On East. The 100 or so guests included friends and four generations of her family from far and near.

The party was special from beginning to end. Daughter Ilene Friedman kicked it off with a video assembled by cousin Jodi Tesser; it featured family members who were unable to get to the party and introduced the grandkids and other family who were there. Ilene also thanked other members of her party team: cousin Sue Tesser, Liliana Cruz and Sarasota Orchestra CEO Joe McKenna. Next up was a clever split frame “Happy Birthday” video from Friedman family protégée Maria Wirries.

Phil Mancini and Friedman have been friends for decades, and he pulled out all the stops for lunch, presenting a buffet of many of Bea’s signature dishes.

For dessert, servers delivered a mousse-filled chocolate piano for each guest.

A video from Anu Tali introduced the Sarasota Orchestra concert conducted by Maestro Andrew Lane. Bea has been a pre-eminent supporter of the orchestra and instrumental to furthering its endowment for four decades. You could feel the love when the orchestra played “Chicago” in honor of her former hometown, selections from “Fiddler on the Roof” featuring a solo

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by concertmaster Daniel Jordan, a medley of songs starting with the letter “B” titled “Baubles, Bangles and Bea” and a clutch of Louie Armstrong favorites.

There were also plenty of little ones at the 16-foot-long family table. Great grandson Alex, 2, came with his parents, Aaron and Amy Frank, from Fairfax, Va., and great granddaughter Ella, 2, with her folks, Ariel and James Edson, from Haymarket, Va., Nephew Glenn Friedman and his wife, Pamela, traveled from Redding, Conn., with their 3-year-old triplets: Hadley, Jake and Lilly.

Local guests included Trevor Kramer, Gretchen and Hal Serrie, Anne and Frank Folsom Smith, Claire Love, Renee Sheade, Doris Kaplan, Lillian Richman, Charlene Carstens, Gerri Aaron, Betty Schoenbaum and Bea’s caregivers Katherine Skinner, Samantha Craig and Ms. Cruz.

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This end-of-season event is in its fifth year under the leadership of co-chairs Beverly Bartner, Judi Gallagher, Molly Schechter and Margaret Wise.

This is unlike most other benefit dinners. It is informal; the wardrobe call is “festive culinary,” which is what you make it. The auction is brief and wacky; three or four homemade cakes and some unusual dinners for eight. The party starts with cocktails on the lovely Van Wezel verandah and ends with dancing to the music of Scott Blum.

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