GLFD Benefit for the Dallas Theater Center

A premier performance of Give It Up! as well as a silent auction, tasty food and drinks and conversation.

Honorary Co-Chairs: Penny Youngblood & Nancy Pearce
Event Co-Chairs: Keith Nix & Laurie Foley
Featured Attraction: Exclusive Performance of Give it Up!,

World Premiere Performance Run

Date: February 13, 2010
Time: 6:30 until
Location: Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre
Individual Ticket Price: $150 - Buy Tickets Online Now!
Format: Open Bar, Buffet Stations and Passed Hors d'oeuvres, Silent Auction, Exclusive Performance, Cast Party & Valentine's Dance (post performance)

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Proceeds from the Event:

The funds raised through this event will be split between two initiatives of the Dallas Theater Center (DTC). The GLFD will receive permanent recognition in the Wyly Theatre for its gift to the DTC.

The DTC has launched a "Relocation Campaign" to fund its transition from the Kalita Humphreys Theater to its new home in the Charles and Dee Wyly Theatre. Although the AT&T's Capital Campaign raised money for construction of the Wyly Theatre, the DTC must fund its move to the new location, which includes moving all DTC administrative offices, stage equipment, costumes, etc. The Campaign goal is to raise $12,000,000.



The DTC has established a new educational partnership with the Booker T. Washington High School to encourage students to learn about all aspects of work in the theater, from acting and directing, to stage management to administration and development. Students will be taught directly by DTC artists and will work side by side with professional artists and technicians in the Wyly Theatre.

About the Dallas Theater Center

The Dallas Theater Center (DTC) is one of the leading regional theaters in the country and performs to an audience of more than 90,000 North Texas residents annually. DTC is a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. DTC engages, entertains and inspires a diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living by consistently producing plays, educational programs and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency.

Community and Educational Outreach

DTC actively reaches out to all aspects of the North Dallas community to stimulate new ways of thinking and living by consistently producing plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency. Since 1960 the DTC’s various Education Programs have been nationally recognized for their excellence. Two such current programs include:

  · DTC/Booker T. Washington Learning Lab New this season, DTC is partnering with the Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in a new Learning Lab program. DTC's artistic director, Kevin Moriarty and education director, Lisa Holland, teach a year-long course for seniors in the theater cluster, focusing on advanced theater skills and introducing them to DTC's professional artists.

  · Project Discovery - A subsidized program that targets public, economically disadvantaged middle and high schools in North Texas and offers season tickets, busing, scripts, preshow workshops, post show audience conversation, and performance guides - at no cost to students or schools.

About the Performance

Give It Up!
World Premiere Musical Comedy
Book by Douglas Carter Beane, Music and Lyrics by Lewis Flinn,
Directed and Choreographed by Dan Knechtges

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Described as Lysistrata meets High School Musical, Give it Up! is based on the Greek comedy “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, which was originally performed in 411 BC and is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace, a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.

In Give it Up!, Aristophanes is taken to 21st century Athens University with a hilarious contemporary spin. Playwright Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed, As Bees in Honey Drown), composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn, and director/choreographer Dan Knechtges (Xanadu, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) send the classic Greek comedy to college. Watch the cheerleaders and the school basketball team fight, dance, dribble and ultimately fall in love when they 'Just Say No!' It's being hailed as the major new musical event of this American theater season – see it with the Gay & Lesbian Fund in its World Premier run!

(note: some sexual situations, suggestive dialogue, and sexy cheerleaders!)