The American Legacy
Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy

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Metropolitan's 22nd Season Gala was a chaotic and festive delight, featuring surprises for its guests from first arrival to final drum beat.

Conceived as an April Fools prank, donors arrived to find the theater lobby undecorated, and a know-nothing staff apparently taken by surprise by their attendance.


After a period of uncomfortable waiting in the lobby, guests were invited into the theater, itself not merely unadorned, but in disarray, with painting dropcloths, lighting instruments, and props strewn about, as a painter was rolling primer on the back wall.

Could anyone salvage this debacle?  Between the theater crew, some performers planted in the audience, and that very audience itself....absolutely.

For the "script", click right here.  APRIL FOLLIES

After the entertainment, guests were invited back into the lobby, where they discovered a meal generously rovided by local restaurants Dorian Gray and B 4, with libations donated by Yvonne Opffer and Roland Conybeare, and dessert from New York Food Market.

During and after dinner, items ranging from performance tickets to artwork and theatrical memorabilia were displayed for silent auction.

And to finish off, attendees were enticed back into the theater by the remarkable rhythms of members of the Brooklyn bateria: PAPRIKA
22nd Anniversary
Gala
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
an evening of
Unexpected Entertainments

The night is no longer young,
but it's never too late to make a donation!
Simply click on the dancing fools

dancers

Some memories:
Dancing 
The company cuts loose

"Doggone!" starring Cafard the Magnificent from Metropolitan Playhouse on Vimeo.




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Entertainments

DANCING to the beat of Brooklyn bateria PAPRIKA

A "pas d'une" by RACHAEL KOSCH

A serendade by Violinist YIBIN LI

American classic song by
TRIO TWENTY-TWO

(Terri, Gary, and Christian)

A surprise by STARKacro

and
CAFARD, the WONDER DOG


Auction items included...

THEATER TICKETS from
The Pearl Theatre
The Mint Theater
Gallery Players


WATERCOLORS by
Christian Beels,
Stephen Chinlund, and
Julia Purinton

THE PASSING SHOW
(Vols. 1 to 22)