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The Afternoon Buzz 11.2.21- Majestic Theatre’s Don’t Dress for Dinner and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

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The Afternoon Buzz 11.2.21- Majestic Theatre’s Don’t Dress for Dinner and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

We start the show with Playbill with Jackie Walsh and her guests Elizabeth Pietrangelo  New York City-based actor. Plays Suzette; Stephen Petit, the Production Manager for the Majestic and Director of Don’t Dress for Dinner;  and Scott Renzoni Lenox-based actor, last appeared in Boeing Boeing. They discuss the upcoming performance “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” a madcap French farce.  

Max Richtman, President of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Rachel Shannon Brown, Senior Supervising Attorney at Community Legal Aid, to talk about The Sacred Trust Act.

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