Judy and Jerry Kent

With all the pomp and panoply a fundraiser can provide, our town’s Stages staged a dazzling “Applause!” auction-dinner fundraiser Friday night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where more than $300k was raised to further its education and outreach programs. 

Kevin Steincross, Corinne Melancon

On hand were FOX2′s co-anchor Kevin Steincross, who served as host, auctioneer and emcee, the handsome twosome of Judyand Jerry Kent, blessedly generous underwriters of the do.  Jerry dropped that his firm will close on the sale of its Suddenlink Communications “later this month” at a price tag of $6.8 billion.

Jordan Nichols and Madison Burke

Bill Jacoby and Lana Pepper

(Kent is the telecommunications trailblazer, who built Suddenlink into the seventh largest U.S. cable company.)  The eleventh fundraiser was helmed by Stages exec producer, Jack Lane, whose involvement with “Peter and the Starcatcher”, the Broadway play of the backstory for the character Peter Pan, was nominated for nine Tony Awards. 

John and Trisha McConkey

Lynne Turley, Jack Lane, Lisa Nichols, Kevin Steincross

Josh Gould and Janae Johnson

Janet and Steve Mika

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