Party Pics: Walnut Street Theatre 203rd Anniversary Gala

Walnut Street Theatre celebrated multiple honorees this year with the 2012 Edwin Forrest Award at its landmark 203rd Anniversary Gala – Let the Good Times Roll!, on May 11, 2012. This year’s award recipients were Broadway star and Walnut performer Hugh Panaro and Martin W. Spector, Walnut Trustee and retired Executive Vice President, General Counsel, ARAMARK. Following a pre-concert champagne reception, the rockin’ evening included a spectacular 90-minute concert featuring some of Philadelphia’s favorite Walnut performers including Rachel Camp, Sarah Gliko, Scott Greer, Danielle Herbert, Ben Lipitz, Hugh Panaro, Michael Philip O’Brien, Lyn Philistine, Christopher Sutton, Denise Whelan and the Walnut casts of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing. Guests then mingled with the performers and the honorees at a VIP After-Party will be held on the Thomas Jefferson University Campus that included a silent auction. All proceeds from the Gala benefited the Walnut Street Theatre’s Education and Outreach programming, which reaches over 110,000 children annually in the Delaware Valley. Photography by Mark Garvin