The Scene In and Around Boston . . .
By Hilda M. Morrill
July 20, 2007
 Director of External Affairs for the Boston Parks Department Mary Hines, center, smiles for the camera with friends Elisha Daniels, left, of Sara Campbell Limited, South End, and WCVB-TV Channel 5 reporter Kelly Tuthill, right, at the 11th annual Rose Garden Party. (Photo by Lauren Patrick)
The 11th annual “Rose Garden Party,” a benefit for the Boston ParkARTS program, was held on June 21 at the Kelleher Rose Garden in the Back Bay Fens.
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department presented the fun and festive soiree, which included a hat contest, in partnership with Bank of America.
Chaired by Boston’s first lady, Angela Menino, the large committee included Boston Parks Commissioner Antonia Pollak as well as many of Boston’s other glitterati and movers and shakers from the business, political, legal, medical, educational, and arts worlds including Marcia and Robin Brown, Jacqui Budd, Julie Burns, Dawn Curtis Hanley, Donna DePrisco, and Sister Janet Eisner, S.N.D.
Also: Peggy and Dick Dray, Courtney Forrester, Cecily and Paul Foster, Anne Hawley, Mimi La Camera, Pam Lazares, Vivien Li, Ursula Liff, Otile McManus, Jill Medvedow, Susan Menino Fenton, Marita Rivero, Malcolm Rogers, Wendy Shattuck, Lydia Shire, Joe and Joyce Spaulding, and Clara Wainwright – to name but a very few.
The unique annual event is held in the magnificent garden (not far from the Museum of Fine Arts), which features 2,000 rose bushes representing more than 100 different varieties.
Congratulations and Best Wishes all around!
Unique Floral Designs to be Featured at Gore Place
Gore Place, the 1806 Governor Gore mansion in Waltham, will offer “By Arrangement: Floral Design Honoring Four Presidents” – a new take on its popular mansion tour.
Each weekend from July 21 through August 12, noted floral designer Scott Clarke will grace the 1806 mansion with an original floral arrangement dedicated to one of four American presidents. Clarke serves as Director of Buildings and Grounds for the 45-acre estate and has an intimate knowledge of the house, gardens and grounds.
The arrangements will represent four important periods in our nation's history. “We've chosen Georgian, Federal, mid-Victorian and Modern,” said Clarke. “An arrangement inspired by each period will appear in chronological order for one weekend only.”
“We've also chosen to dedicate each period arrangement to a well-known president of the time: Washington (1789-1797) for Georgian, John Adams (1797-1801) for Federal, and Lincoln (1861-1865) for mid-Victorian,” Clarke continued. “We're going to leave it up to the visitor to decide just who the Modern arrangement will represent. After all, this is a political season and Christopher Gore was a politician. This time of year would have been just his cup of tea.”
“And, speaking of tea, we'll be offering a refreshing glass of iced tea and cookies to all visitors following their tour,” Clarke added.
Visitors will be able to view the arrangements, only as part of the regularly scheduled weekend tours. Tours are available Saturday and Sunday at 12 Noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. "By Arrangement . . ." is included with the admission to the mansion tour.
Tours of the mansion are also available Monday through Friday at 1 p.m.; but the special floral arrangements will only be in-place on the specified weekend days.
For more information, call 781-894-2798 or visit the museum's Web site at www.goreplace.org/by-arrangement.htm.
“The Atheist” at the Calderwood Pavilion in September
Looking Ahead at The Boston Theatre Scene: Film and stage star Campbell Scott headlines the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “The Atheist,” a searingly funny new play (as we are told) running Sept. 12-30, 2007 at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
With a run of only 15 performances, this special presentation is not part of the Huntington’s previously announced 2007-2008 Season. But Managing Director Michael Maso says tickets for “The Atheist” are available now to subscribers.
“With such limited availability, I expect ‘The Atheist’ to be the fall’s hottest ticket,” Maso says, “and we are giving our subscribers a chance to be first in line. If any seats remain, we will make them available closer to the performance dates.”
This one-man show, written by Boston playwright Ronan Noone and to be directed by Huntington Artistic Associate Justin Waldman, made its debut at the Huntington’s “2006 Breaking Ground Festival of New Play Readings.”
In it, Scott plays Augustine Early, a crooked journalist who makes an art of clawing his way up the professional ladder. When he turns the mayor’s tawdry predilections into front-page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person he thought was immune – himself.
Campbell Scott was last seen on a Boston stage as the tortured Dane in the Huntington’s 1996 production of “Hamlet.” His prolific and varied career includes nearly 50 feature and television films, as well as significant theatre work. Scott starred on-screen in “The Secret Lives of Dentists,” “Roger Dodger,” the groundbreaking “Longtime Companion,” and the hits “Dying Young” with Julia Roberts, Cameron Crowe’s “Singles,” and the recent “Music and Lyrics” with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.
As a director, he helmed the films “Off the Map” with Joan Allen and Sam Elliott, and “Final” with Denis Leary and Hope Davis. He also co-directed the 1996 hit “Big Night” with its star Stanley Tucci, and the 2000 USA Network adaptation of “Hamlet,” in which he also starred.
On Broadway Scott appeared in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "Ah! Wilderness," "Hay Fever," and "The Real Thing." His Off Broadway performances include "Pericles" at the New York Shakespeare Festival, "Measure for Measure" at Lincoln Center Theater, the Roundabout’s “A Man for All Seasons,” and “On the Bum” at Playwrights Horizons. He also starred in regional productions of such classics as “Dead End” (directed by Nicholas Martin at Williamstown Theatre Festival), "Design for Living," "Miss Julie," "Othello," "Romeo and Juliet," "Our Town," and many more.
For information on subscribing to the Huntington, log on to www.huntingtontheatre.org, or call the Huntington Box Office at 617-266-0800.
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