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CHRISTINE EBERSOLE AND CAST OF 'GREY GARDENS'
JOIN DRAMA DESK AWARDS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TO CO-HOST
PRE-CEREMONY VIP RECEPTION AT RUSSIAN TEA ROOM ON MAY 20

Christine Ebersole, who won the Drama Desk Award last season as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical and who is a leading contender for a 2007 Tony Award, and the cast of Grey Gardens, will join Drama Desk Awards Executive Producer Robert R. Blume as co-hosts of the gala VIP Pre-Awards Ceremony Reception at the Russian Tea Room on Sunday, May 20, 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on Sunday, May 20, at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. All nominees, celebrity presenters and other leading New York theater world professionals, including past Drama Desk Award winners, are invited to the reception. Many of the guests come straight from the awards show rehearsals which take place all that weekend. Double-decker buses, provided by Gray Lines NY Sightseeing, will transport party guests from the Russian Tea Room to the LaGuardia Concert Hall starting at 7:15 PM.

(Attention Media: There will be a red carpet Arrival Area set up directly in front of the entrance to the Russian Tea Room, 150 West 57th Street, starting at 5:00 PM on May 20.
There will also be media interview area on the RTR second floor. Please let me know if you are planning to cover this reception by calling me at 917/854-3286 or e-mailing me at lester.schecter@verizon.net no later than Thursday, May 18, at 5 PM.)
This year's 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by the multi-award-winning Broadway musical star Kristin Chenoweth, who recently starred in the successful Broadway revival of The Apple Tree, will be taped and a two-hour edited version will be broadcast nationally on PBS stations. In New York, the telecast will be aired by Thirteen/WNET on Sunday, May 27, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM. NYC TV 25 will broadcast the awards special on Thursday, May 24, at 8:00 PM and on Saturday, May 26, at 10:00 PM. The awards ceremony will also be webcast live on May 20 by TheaterMania.com and will be broadcast live on XM Satellite Radio's theater channel - XM-28 On Broadway.

Press Contacts: Les Schecter/Matthew Donoghue
212/586-2600
lester.schecter@verizon.net

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