Just like Cyndi Lauper, Shindigger has prepared since childhood for Broadway’s biggest night by practicing our acceptance speech “to the shower curtain.” Of course, that practice came in handy for Ms. Lauper as she took home a statue at last Sunday night’s 67th annual Tony Awards. Shindigger, meanwhile, had to make do with running after Read More
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Two hundred years is a hell of a long time for a nonprofit to have existed, Shindigger thought as we crept into the Pierre hotel on the chilly evening of December 12 to attend the New York City Mission Society’s bicentennial gala. NYCMS had invited an agglomeration of Harlem and uptown notables to the ever-swanky Read More
The New York City Mission Society is celebrating its 200th birthday tonight—and with age comes a few privileges, like getting distinguished guests to join in your cause. Legendary actress Cicely Tyson (who’s bound for Broadway in an upcoming The Trip to Bountiful revival), the Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, philanthropist Jean Shafiroff and former Read More
