Tony Walton at the MPD in SF --- eNews Flash

Coward on the Coast: eNewsletter March 4, 2011

In This Issue

Tony Walton at the MPD in San Francisco March 21

Private Lives opens at the Laguna Playhouse March 15

Private Lives at the Morrisson Theatre in Hayward through March 20

Blithe Spirit: last weekend at the American River College Theatre, Sacramento.

Film in Seattle on March 17: Bunny Lake is Missing

What's On: March 4 - September 18

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March 2011 - Events

Tony Walton at the MPD
On Monday, March 21, Brad Rosenstein, Curator of Exhibitions and Programs for the Musem of Performance & Design (MPD), will moderate A Conversation with Tony Walton at the MPD in San Francisco. Designer/director Walton -- a long-time member of the Noel Coward Society -- will be available for Q&A after the presentation. For this event, the MPD is graciously offering their discounted "Members' Rates" to NCS members. Admission at the "Patron" level includes a wine reception with Mr. Walton.

Coward Plays/Film:
Laguna Beach, CA to Seattle, WA

Private Lives. Opening March 15 at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach. Now through March 20th at the Douglas Morrison Theatre in Hayward, CA.

Last weekend for Blithe Spirit. American River College Theatre, Sacramento, CA. March 4-5.

Bunny Lake is Missing. Coward in his most peculiar cameo role in this film by Otto Preminger. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. March 17th.

Designers on Design:
A Conversation with Tony Walton
Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco, CA
March 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Tony Walton

Museum of Performance & Design

401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 402

San Francisco, CA 94102

415-255-4800

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415-255-4800, ext. *819

MPD box office

Legendary set and costume designer Tony Walton participates in an intimate conversation about his extraordinary career on stage and screen. Illustrated with images and video, and moderated by MPD's Curator of Exhibitions and Programs, Brad Rosenstein, the conversation will encompass Walton's five decades of work with such brilliant collaborators as Noël Coward, Jerome Robbins, Walt Disney and Bob Fosse. After the conversation, Mr. Walton will answer questions from the audience.

Seating is limited and advance tickets are recommended.

Our friends at the MPD are offering Coward Society members a discount on tickets: to reserve/purchase your tickets at the "Museum Members/Patrons" amount, please call Tony Bravo at 415-255-4800, ext. *819. Be sure to mention that you are a member of the Noel Coward Society.

Tickets

MPD Members $15

Member Patrons (wine reception) $25

Non-Members $20

Non-Member Patrons (wine reception) $30

A Conversation with Tony Walton

Monday, March 21 at 7:00 PM

Patrons' wine reception immediately following the presentation.

For those interested in viewing the current exhibition, More Life! Angels in America at Twenty, the MPD Gallery One will open at 6:30 PM.

Tony Walton is a world-renowned director and designer. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls all won him Tonys. Among his twenty films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz, and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar and Death of a Salesman the Emmy. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Mr. Walton began his career at age 22 with the 1957 Broadway production of Noël Coward's Conversation Piece. In 2004, he designed and directed Barry Day's adaptation of Coward's After the Ball, at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan.

A Conversation with Tony Walton is presented in association with The Walt Disney Family Museum.

Private Lives
Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, CA
March 15 - April 10, 2011