On Tuesday, December 6, Sandy Hook Promise (Shp) hosted a benefit evening at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City to commemorate the 10-year remembrance of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
Matthew McConaughey speaks at the Sandy Hook Promise 10-Year Remembrance benefit event
Credit/Copyright: Ann Billingsley
More than 450 supporters, advocates, and business leaders joined the event to honor the lives taken that tragic day – and celebrate the lifesaving impact of Sandy Hook Promise’s Know the Signs programs.
Barack Obama delivered an emotional and stirring speech as he reflected on the decade since the tragedy, underscoring the lives saved since and the work left to be done to protect children from gun violence in the US.
President Barack Obama delivers keynote speech at Sandy Hook Promise's 10-Year Remembrance benefit event
Credit/Copyright: Ann Billingsley
“When we were together back in 2012, I said that Newtown would be remembered for the...
Matthew McConaughey speaks at the Sandy Hook Promise 10-Year Remembrance benefit event
Credit/Copyright: Ann Billingsley
More than 450 supporters, advocates, and business leaders joined the event to honor the lives taken that tragic day – and celebrate the lifesaving impact of Sandy Hook Promise’s Know the Signs programs.
Barack Obama delivered an emotional and stirring speech as he reflected on the decade since the tragedy, underscoring the lives saved since and the work left to be done to protect children from gun violence in the US.
President Barack Obama delivers keynote speech at Sandy Hook Promise's 10-Year Remembrance benefit event
Credit/Copyright: Ann Billingsley
“When we were together back in 2012, I said that Newtown would be remembered for the...
- 12/13/2022
- Look to the Stars
Gillian Lynne, the choreographer for Cats and The Phantom of the Opera who died Sunday in London at age 92, was remembered today by Andrew Lloyd Webber as a major figure in dance and a key in the the phenomenal global success the musical based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
“Quite simply Gillian Lynne was a seminal figure in choreography for three generations, possibly four as her groundbreaking work in Cats is still being seen around the world,” wrote Lloyd Webber (read the entire tribute below).
Lynne, who was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to dance and musical theatre in 2014, died at the Princess Grace Hospital in Marylebone, London, last night. Her death was announced by her husband, actor Peter Land, who tweeted, “I am heartbroken to write that Dame Gillian Lynne Dbe & my dearest wife & friend...
“Quite simply Gillian Lynne was a seminal figure in choreography for three generations, possibly four as her groundbreaking work in Cats is still being seen around the world,” wrote Lloyd Webber (read the entire tribute below).
Lynne, who was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to dance and musical theatre in 2014, died at the Princess Grace Hospital in Marylebone, London, last night. Her death was announced by her husband, actor Peter Land, who tweeted, “I am heartbroken to write that Dame Gillian Lynne Dbe & my dearest wife & friend...
- 7/2/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The award-winning York Theatre Company James Morgan- Producing Artistic Director announced today that West End and Broadway actor Peter Land, recently seen in their Mufti production of Oh, Coward returns for three Sunday nights in February with his new solo show, Now or Never, an explosion of music and words. Directed by Gillian Lynne, Now or Never will play at The York Theatre at Saint Peters on 54th St, just east of Lexington Avenue, on February 12, 19, and 26 at 730 p.m.
- 1/19/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
When Gillian Lynne was 13, her mother was killed in a car crash. Remarkably, she turned a terrible loss into the catalyst for a hugely successful career in theatre, film and TV– and it was all inspired by her mother
Gillian Lynne's childhood ended when she was 13, on what should have been a carefree summer's day. She had spent it playing with four friends in a garden in Kent; the children were together because their parents, a group of four couples, had gone away together for the weekend, and the grandparents of two of the children were looking after all five. "We were up a tree, having a wonderful time," recalls Gillian, "when we saw our friends' grandparents walking across the grass towards us. That seemed odd, because they didn't usually come out into the garden like that. And then I noticed how strange they looked; and then they asked us all to come inside,...
Gillian Lynne's childhood ended when she was 13, on what should have been a carefree summer's day. She had spent it playing with four friends in a garden in Kent; the children were together because their parents, a group of four couples, had gone away together for the weekend, and the grandparents of two of the children were looking after all five. "We were up a tree, having a wonderful time," recalls Gillian, "when we saw our friends' grandparents walking across the grass towards us. That seemed odd, because they didn't usually come out into the garden like that. And then I noticed how strange they looked; and then they asked us all to come inside,...
- 11/26/2011
- by Joanna Moorhead
- The Guardian - Film News
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