Dinner-Theater at CSI with Olympia Dukakis
Staten Island Advance - Sunday, November 25, 2007
 A Dinner-Theater fund-raiser performance, starring Academy Award and
Golden Globe winner Olympia Dukakis, will be held by the Friends of
the College of Staten Island (CSI) on Saturday, beginning with
dinner at 6 p.m., and performance at 8 p.m., followed by dessert and
conversation with the actors. Tickets cost $100 per person and can
be purchased by calling the CSI advancement office at 718 982-2365.
Olympia Dukakis will share the Center for the Arts Williamson
Theatre stage with her actor husband, Louis Zorich, in a reading of
"I Take Your Hand in Mine," a play by Carol Rocamora based on the
love letters of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and his actress
wife Olga Knipper.
Event co-chairs are Nancy and Christopher Benbow of Ward Hill, and
Christine and Peter Cea of Emerson Hill.
Funds raised from the event will go to the CSI Parthenon Project
which involves the restoration of 12 plaster casts of the
Parthenon's western frieze and their installation in the Atrium of
the college's Center for the Arts.
A goal is to gain insight into the origins of the plaster casts so
that students, staff, and visitors to CSI may enjoy them, and learn
from them, college officials say.
The Friends of CSI dinner theater event is offered as part of
"Island Culture: Near and Far," the 2007-2008 season at the Center
for the Arts.
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