Baz Luhrmann honoured in New York City

2015 Fiesta! Honorees Veronique and Bob Pittman, Board Chair Jacqueline Weld Drake, and honorees John Bernbach and Baz Luhrmann photo by Patrick McMullan (c)

The Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education based in New York states it's mission is to empower youth and their families by creating a culture of learning through high quality social, cultural, and educational .opportunities. Each year they honour individuals who have done just that. Honorees have included Margot Fonteyn, Oscar de la Renta, Audrey Hepburn, Oscar de la Hoya and Julio Ingelsias. This year Baz Luhrmann, described by the Centre as "film director extraordinaire" was a recipient.
And the Casita Maria Centre comes with some powerful chairperson names, amongst them Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo, Sting and Trudie Styler, Roberto Cavalli and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. So the answer to that question you're asking yourself "was Baz's move to New York a positive one"..is, you betcha life!.

A Night In New York City

Courtesy of New York Social Diary.


Curtain call

Thursday night : the opening of Robin Williams' Broadway debut in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
 All photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com (c)2011

Mercedes Ruehl



Robin Williams and Susan Schneider



Trudie Styler and Sting

 

Tyne Daly



 

Nathan Lane

Same night same city : at the Barrow Street Theater for the debut of Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, a new comedy written by (and starring) Mr. Birbiglia.





Mike Birbiglia and Nasim Pedrad


Sunday on the Shuttle :
The PR War of Words stretching from Sydney to New York