The Rogers Revue

An elegantly dressed crowd buzzed with excitement Monday evening at the Capital One Hall for this year’s 11^th Stephen Sondheim Award Gala which will benefit Signature Theatre’s artistic, education, and community programs. Women remarked on each other’s glamorous gowns and men looked handsome in their suits and ties. One man even wore a tie depicting Georges Seurat’s painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” in support of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1984 musical “Sunday in the Park with George.” Sondheim has written music and lyrics for many memorable musicals including “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Follies,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “Into the Woods.”