ABT Spring Gala details

[Alexandra]

Excerpts From ABT's 2002 Spring Season Including

The Dream and La Fille Mal Gardée Highlight Gala Program

President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush will serve as Honorary Chairmen of American Ballet Theatre's 2002 Spring Gala on Monday evening, May 13 at 6:30 P.M. at the Metropolitan Opera House. The Spring Gala, which opens ABT's 2002 Spring Season, will feature excerpts of the season's ballets including highlights from the Company premieres of The Dream and La Fille Mal Gardée.

Co-Chairmen for American Ballet Theatre's Spring Gala are Caroline Kennedy and Blaine Trump. Corporate Co-Chairmen are Jack Kliger and Gedalio Grinberg. Hachette Filipacchi Magazines and Movado Watch Company have generously underwritten the evening. Friends Co-Chairmen include Peter Bacanovic, Sloan Lindemann Barnett, Tory Burch and Susan Fales-Hill.

A Gala dinner under the Tent at Lincoln Center will immediately follow the performance. Gala benefit tickets include the performance and the post-performance dinner. For Gala Benefit ticket information only, call the American Ballet Theatre Special Events office at 212-477-3030, ext. 3218.

Performance only tickets are available by calling the Metropolitan Opera House at 212-362-6000. The Metropolitan Opera House is located at Lincoln Center at Broadway and 65th Street.

American Ballet Theatre's 2002 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House is sponsored by Movado Watch Company. For the past 16 years, Movado Watch Company has been a principal benefactor of American Ballet Theatre.