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Reception and Season Preview at Zach Theatre
They crowded into the tiny, hot lobby, dreaming of the day when the Topfer Theatre will open next door and Zach Theatre patrons can mingle in a grown-up theater building. The cramped quarters didn’t dampen the mood for the backers who previewed Zach’s 2011-2012 season after a lively reception and before a buffet dinner.
Eddie Safady, Bobbi Topfer and Mitch Jacobson
Theater namesakes Mort and Bobbi Topfer were there, looking radiant. The couple recently returned from Maine where they attended the wedding of Austin businesswoman Gabrielle de Kuyper Sheshunoff and Rudolf Bekink, the Dutch ambassador to China. (I hear the dress was to die for.) Not long from now, the Topfers will head to Napa Valley with cohorts for Mort’s 75th birthday. Hey, he looks younger today than when I met him ages ago, when a permanent worry seemed to crease his brow.
Deborah Green and Clayton Aynesworth
Also in the crowd were local social luminaries: Deborah Green, Clayton Aynesworth, Eddie Safady, Louie Messina, Christine Messina, Mitch Jacobson, Richard Hartgrove, Gary Cooper, Candace Partridge, Michael Partridge, Elisbeth Challener, Marcia Levy, Susan Lubin, Graydon Parrish, Robert Faires, Scott Ballew, Mike O’Krent, Kevin Smothers, Michael Pungello, Joe McSpadden and so forth.
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Elisbeth Challener and Joe McSpadden
Artistic director Dave Steakley introduced snappy snippets from the upcoming plays and musicals. To tell the truth, this tight, entertaining package of shorts could count as a season entry. Merrily, the group trouped over to the Nowlin Rehearsal Hall for dinner, where they mixed with those unflagging — and surely hungry — Zach artists.
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