Yale GALA presents ...

Symphony Pastorale / Fugue Theatre with Bob Barnett (YSD '89) and Post-Show Alumni Gathering with Bob, Cast & Crew

WHEN:	Show: Monday, August 18, 7:00 PM Drinks & conversation with cast: 9-11 PM
WHERE:	The performance is at The New School for Drama Theater 151 Bank Street (West & Washington Streets) Drinks will be at Turks and Frogs Bar, 323 West 11th Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets (212-691-8875)
COST	There is no cover for the reception - cash bar Tickets for SYMPHONY PASTORALE/FUGUE SERIES are $15. To order tickets for the show, go to: http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/fnyc08_prevdetail.php?0=S&1=510
RSVP:	If you plan to attend the reception, please RSVP at http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ffr-gala/FFR_RSVP.asp

Meet Yale playwright Bob Barnett (YSD '89) and the cast of his double
bill SYMPHONY PASTORALE/FUGUE SERIES at a post-show gathering
co-sponsored by Yale GALA, following its FringeNYC performance Monday,
August 18th, 2008.

Join Bob and the cast from 9pm-11pm for drinks and conversation at Turks
and Frogs Bar, 323 West 11th Street between Greenwich and Washington
Streets (212-691-8875).

The Los Angeles Times called SYMPHONY PASTORALE "a delicious and
sophisticated piece of theater" while the Chicago Tribune dubbed the
double bill "a winning pair of one-act plays...novel and entrancing."

A New York premiere, SYMPHONY PASTORALE is the story of a man's life
dramatized in four movements, each one orchestrated with its own
rhythmic structure, creating spoken music that moves effortlessly from
the outlandishly comic with John as a fetus refusing to be born - to the
startlingly poignant as his children grow up before our very eyes as the
family revisits a amusement park...and all performed under the direction
of a conductor's baton. FUGUE SERIES, which opens the show, is a silent
movie come to life set to an original score by Brian Wilbur Grundstrom.
The ensemble of five actors creates a quick-change comic soufflé of 35
people and personalities whose interweaving storylines become a visual
fugue as they visit a museum gallery to view a series of three paintings
over the course of a day.

Thanks to our hosts Libby and Mickey Dobbs of Yale GALA. For
more information, email them at mickey.dobbs@aya.yale.edu.