SPEAKER: TOM SANTOPIETRO & FOSTER HIRSCH | ENTERTAINER: SHANA FARR

Must RSVP by the Friday before

$55 admission includes a three-course lunch payable at the door by cash or check only

Tom Santopietro is an American author and Broadway theater manager. He has authored ten books, including the national best selling Sound of Music Story, the New York Times Editor’s Choice Considering Doris Day, and the recently released Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty. Over the past thirty years he has managed more than three dozen Broadway shows, including Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys, and Moulin Rouge. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, Tom and the American Bar Association are equally happy that he is not practicing law.

Shana Farr is a classically trained actress and award-winning concert, cabaret, and supper club performer. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, Birdland, London’s Crazy Coqs, and even Westminster Abbey. On stage, she has starred in leading roles in musical theater, operettas, and plays, and her acclaimed solo productions celebrate the Great American Songbook and legendary performers like Julie Andrews and Barbara Cook. Winner of a Bistro Award and two Mabel Mercer Foundation Awards, Shana’s debut album Out of the Shadows earned praise from the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post hailed her as “a beautiful performer [who] delivered a polished and vocally radiant turn.”