Outstanding Performances in double bill showing of Margherita and The Folk Opera Lincoln and God at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival August 30th

National Press Club on Rising College Costs

Come to the National Club on September 10. http://lnkd.in/dEVJynb

Opera Rehearsal

Rehearsal  for folk opera Lincoln and God  to be presented at Kennedy Center on August 30, 2014      Read more    http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Rehearsal for Margherita

View rehearsal for Margherita to be presented at Kennedy Center on August 30, 2014 at http://lnkd.in/dskBDe5 Read more http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Vedder

NPC Newsmaker Program

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

TO: Daybooks/Calendar/Correspondents/Assignment Editors/Press Offices

FROM: Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chairman, 301-512-7636, herb@peronecomm.com

  

THE REAL REASON COLLEGE COSTS SO MUCH

 

Washington, DC –  Why are college and university Costs escalating so rapidly? At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on September 10, Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and economics professor at Ohio University, will discuss the reasons college costs have continued to explode despite 50 years of ostensibly benevolent government interventions.

In 1964, federal student aid was a mere $231 million. By 1981, the federal government was spending $7 billion on loans alone, an amount that doubled during the 1980s and nearly tripled in each of the following two decades – and amounts to about $105 billion today. Taxpayers now stand behind nearly $1 trillion in student loans.

Meanwhile, grants have increased to $49 billion from $6.4 billion in 1981. By expanding eligibility and boosting the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350, the 2009 stimulus bill accelerated higher ed's evolution into a middle-class entitlement. Fewer than two percent of Pell Grant recipients came from families making between $60,000 and $80,000 a year in 2007. Now roughly 18 percent do.

This growth in subsidies, Mr. Vedder argues, has fueled rising prices: "It gives every incentive and every opportunity for colleges to raise their fees."

Like all NPC Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and NPC club members. It is free of charge and no advance registration is required. This NPC Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Zenger Room, on the 13^th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14^th St. NW, Washington DC 20045. 

 

Contact:

Tony Gallo NPC Newsmakers Event Host

202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net

Rehearsals

We are rehearsing for two Kennedy Center presentations this coming Saturday ongoing. You are invited. http://lnkd.in/d2jtBsW.

Margherita and Lincoln Folk Opera at Kennedy Center on August 30: You are invited.

THE KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Hosts as Part of the 2014 Page-to-Stage Festival 

A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE and GALLO MUSIC COMPANY PRESENTATION OF A DOUBLE BILL

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014, 1:00 TO 3: 30 PM   MILLENNIAL STAGE NORTH

MARGHERITA

 

By ANTHONY E. GALLO

THE JEWISH MOTHER OF FASCISM COMES TO WASHINGTON AND GUESS WHO’S FOLLOWING (OR STALKING?) HER)

This historically- based two-act drama examines the 25-year relationship between Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini between 1911 and 1936 during a three-day encounter in 1939.  Margherita, both Benito’s former muse and mistress, is trying to leave the country.  This play is under contract to Browne-Nederlander for New York production.  Visit web site:  http://margherita.aegallo.com

CAST

Margherita Sarfatti                                       Tarpley Long

Benito Mussolini                                            Steven Rosenthal

James Bullock                                                Tim Wolf

Major Karl Klemmer                                   David Weaver

Radio Announcer                                          Shirl Weaver

Sound Design and Narrator                         Beatrix Whitehall

And

A PREMIERE:  MUSICAL EXCERPTS FROM

THE FOLK OPERA LINCOLN AND GOD

 

By ANTHONY E. GALLO and JOHN WARD

This folk opera examines the complex relationship between the Nation’s sixteenth President and his God during the Civil War.  Hear fully orchestrated  songs from Love Is Eternal to This is America.   Visit web site:     http://aegallo.com/lincop.html

CAST

Reverend Phineas  Gurley                             Tim Wolf

Abraham Lincoln                                           David Weaver

Benjamin Helm                                              B. Whitehall 

Mary Lincoln                                                  Shirl Weaver

Sculptor Jones                                                B. Whitheall

 

Questions:   Anthony E. Gallo   (202) 544-6973 agallo2368@verizon.net  No Charge Free Shuttle From GW Metro Stop Or Park At The Kennedy Center    

Millenial Stage

Margherita and The Folk Opera Lincoln and God will be performed in the Millennial Stage-Grand Foyer North of the Kennedy Center for the Page to Stage Festival on August 30 http://lnkd.in/dWygMDz

See C Span Live Coverage of WW! Memorial Newsmaker at National Press Club

Main C Span live covered World War 1 Memorial presention at the National Press Club. http://lnkd.in/dbDUi3S

Israeli Lounge

Margherita and The Folk Opera Lincoln and God will be performed in the Israeli Lounge of the Kennedy Center for the Page to Stage Festival on August 30 http://lnkd.in/dY2cFkw

See DVD of Eugenio Show at Greenbelt Arts Center

See outstanding performance of Eugenio at Greenbelt Arts Center in 2014. Filmed by Matt Lolich http://lnkd.in/dqZnbJR

Fountain at Natiional Press Club

Plans for the WW1 Memorial to be presented at the National Press Club on August12. http://lnkd.in/db-WbN5

World War 1 Memorial

Will be hosting World War 1 Memorial as a Newsmaker at the National Press Club on August 12. http://lnkd.in/dBdVHvb

“Eugenio” Explores WWII and Forgiveness at GAC

Carol Griffith  Greenbelt News Review

How do one’s religious beliefs  stand up in the atrocities of war? Is forgiveness really possible? Such questions are the themes of the thoroughly engrossing “Eugenio,” now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, the latest work by playwright Anthony Gallo. Gallo, the director of the Seventh Street Playhouse and author of over a dozen plays, tackles big issues with intelligence and much talent. His recent productions include a Bible-based trilogy; “Vandergrift!” which dealt

with union-organizing during the Gilded Age; and “Lincoln and God” which treated our 16th president’s spirituality as he wrestled with the challenges of abolishing slavery while preserving the Union. “Eugenio,”

like many of Gallo’s other plays, has been staged at the Kennedy Center and at several New York

venues. Set in Italy in 1943 as the Nazis begin to occupy Rome, the city’s Chief Rabbi, Israel Zolli,

(excellently played by Steve Rosenthal) refuses to believe that the Nazis plan to harm the Jews.

Finally convinced of the impending Holocaust by his Roman Catholic allies Monsignor Hilary

and Cardinal Maglione (James McDaniel and Bruce Smith, respectively, in wonderful performances)

and by encounters with the Nazi commanding officer, Colonel Schmitt (ably played by co-director David Weaver), Zolli seeks asylum in the Vatican. Ultimately, after much soul searching, he is called to

convert to Roman Catholicism, causing much dismay and confusion. Every major character, including

Zolli’s housekeeper Rosina (convincingly played by co-director Shirl Weaver); Sister

Angelina, a courageous nun who hid Jews from the Nazis (Trix Whitehall, in a commanding

performance); and one of Zolli’s congregants, Alberto Anso (excellently played by George Spencer), has to decide if and how to forgive their sometimes horrific losses from the war. Their struggles are

well-drawn, sympathetic and often surprising, and with this theme “Eugenio” succeeds on

an emotional level. It is powerfulentertainment. “Eugenio” will play on Friday and Saturday, July 25 and

26, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, July 27 at 2 p.m. Reservations may be made through the box

office at 301-441-8770 or at the Arts Center at 123 Centerway, located beneath the Co-op supermarket.

 

 

WHERE

Greenbelt Arts Center  123 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD  Directions and Reservations: 301-441-8770.Tickets: Regular - $17   Seniors/Students - $14   Group Sales -$12   Questions:  202 544 6973  agallo2368@verizon.net

 

Website:  Eugenio:   http://eugenio.aegallo.com

Kennedy Center 2014

Margherita and the Folk Opera Lincoln and God will both be performed at the Kennedy Center on Saturday August 30 beginning at 1 PM.  You are invited.  Details later.

WW1 Memorial

 

NPC Newsmaker Program

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

TO: Daybooks/Calendar/Correspondents/Assignment Editors/Press Offices

FROM: Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chairman, 301-512-7636, herb@peronecomm.com

 

 

Preparing for a National World War I Memorial, 100 Years Later

Washington, DC – In a city densely populated with memorials, there is one conspicuous absence – a memorial commemorating America’s involvement in what was known as “the Great War” – World War One, which started 100 years ago, in the summer of 1914.

At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Tuesday, August 12, Edward L. Fountain of the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will discuss legislation that’s been introduced to authorize re-development of Pershing Park in Northwest Washington as a national World War I memorial.

The Congressionally chartered Commission is tasked with educating the American people about the causes and consequences of the war and to commemorate the sacrifices of the American servicemen and women who served in that war. Pershing Park, located on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Willard Hotel – just steps from the National Press Club – currently contains a small memorial to Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.

The legislation, which has passed the House of Representatives as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act and is awaiting action by the Senate, would permit the Commission to pursue re-development of the park.

This Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Zenger Room, on the 13^th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14^th St. NW, Washington DC 20045.

Like all NPC Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and NPC club members. It is free of charge and no advance registration is required.

 

Contact:

Tony Gallo NPC Newsmakers Event Host

202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net