{"title": "The Big Time", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Cutting Room", "address": "44 East 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016", "price": "$125.00-$3,000.00", "price_from": "125.00", "price_to": "3000.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/gala"], "description": "The Big Time is the 2026 Rehearsal Club Benefit Gala, an in-person evening of drinks, a buffet dinner, and a program and entertainment. It is presented by The Rehearsal Club, whose gala raises essential funding to provide affordable housing to young women embarking on performing arts careers. The celebration honors the career of former Rehearsal Club resident Melanie Mayron, an Emmy-winning actress and director. 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It is staged by Theater for the New City, an East Village theater whose executive artistic director is Crystal Field, and 2026 marks its fiftieth incarnation of a tradition begun in 1974. A free outdoor festivity with performances and a children's costume contest gives way to indoor festivities across the theater's four-theater complex, with cabaret acts, ballroom dancing by Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band and Mr. Pablo's Latin Dance Band, an aerial dance concert by Caytha Jentis, and dining in the Witch's Cauldron pop-up restaurant. 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Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole revisits her Tony Award-winning performance alongside the musical's composer, Scott Frankel, hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Frank DiLella. They share behind-the-scenes stories and perform selections from the acclaimed score that helped make Grey Gardens one of the most distinctive musicals of the 21st century. 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