16th Annual Arena Stage Benefit to Support Community Engagement
April 14th with pre-show dinner at The Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA and the
one-night-only performance at Arena Stage in Crystal City

Co-Chaired by The Honorable William T. Newman and Sheila C. Johnson

Play On! Show Summary: The Scranton Summer Olympics are rapidly approaching, and Team USA’s Mixed Doubles Pentathlon gold medal hopeful, Duke Deltoid, needs a new partner. Despite the taunting of her uber-jock step-sisters, Mary-Pat and Pat-Mary, Camp Arena Stage counselor Ellen Musing has secret dreams to be an athlete. Unbeknownst to his mother and the Olympic world, Duke dreams of expressing himself creatively. Will these two youngsters realize their own dreams in each other? Or will a mysterious, performance-enhancing substance scandal erupt and send the country into a media frenzy? Only a congressional hearing will tell. Magruder uses the familiar lens of Cinderella to tell a fairy tale fit for the nation’s capital

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	The Honorable William T. Newman, Jr., TV personality and Creative Director for Liz Claiborne Tim Gunn, and Sheila C. Johnson before the dinner.
	The Honorable William T. Newman, Jr. and Sheila C. Johnson presenting Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) with one of the two Arena Stage American Voice Awards given this year, for his continued support of the arts, education and the embodiment of Arena’s mission.
	The Honorable William T. Newman, Jr. and Sheila C. Johnson presenting Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) with one of the two Arena Stage American Voice Awards given this year, for his continued support of the arts, education and the embodiment of Arena’s mission.
	(l-r) Former Redskin Charles Mann, NBC4 Sports Reporter Lindsay Czarniak, WJLA Entertainment Reporter Arch Campbell, and WTOP’s Man About Town Bob Madigan get ready to follow the band to the show.
	The Ballou High School Marching Band got the benefit guests on their feet after dinner and led the pre-game march from the Gateway Marriott to the Arena Stage in Crystal City theater where the evening’s show Play On! was performed.
	Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith with the Ballou High School Marching Band tuba players.
	DC Councilman Tommy Wells doing the “Spoken-word Salsa.”
	(l-r) Lindsay Czarniak (NBC4 sports reporter) as Pat-Mary, and Barbara Lang (President and CEO of DC Chamber of Commerce) as Mary-Pat, the mean step-sisters of the Play On! heroine Ellen Musing (played by Tara Giordano).
	Tim Gunn tells the Arena Stage Campers (Ebony Chuukwu, Gwendolyn Powell and Charles Franklin) in Costume Design class to “Make it work” when costuming the play's heroine Ellen Musing (played by Tara Giordano).
	(l-r) Jim Vance (NBC news anchor), John Thompson III (Georgetown Hoyas Coach), Ben Olsen (DC United) and Charles Mann (former Redskin) give their “One-minute drill” on the Scranton Olympics.
	(l-r) Donna Orender (President of WNBA), Ted Leonsis (owner of the Washington Capitals), Tree Rollins (coach of Wash. Mystics), Peggo Horstmann Hodes and Rep. Paul Hodes questioning witness Rep. Jim Moran (far right) in a senate hearing about “performance” enhancing drugs.
	Governor Tim Kaine playing a mean harmonica to show off his artistic talent to the senate committee at the hearing regarding “performance” enhancing drugs.
	Rep. Paul Hodes and his wife Peggo Horstmann Hodes chime in to sing “You've Gotta Have Heart” for artistic development opportunites.
	Actor Tim Reid as the Brimstone Preacher ad-libbing a spirited sermon of encouragement to the play’s heroine Ellen Musing.
	The cast of the 16th Annual Arena Stage Benefit take a bow.
	A post-show photo of members of the cast of the 16th Annual Arena Stage benefit to support the theater's community engagement department.

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