(1,2,3) Broadway Legend Barbara Cook performs American songbook classics during  Eli and Edythe Broad Stage's  Inaugural Gala on Saturday, September 20, 2008. 4,5) String Theory court dancers perform during the Inaugural Gala. 6) Actor Dustin Hoffman welcomes guest during the Gala. The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage was built at a cost of $45 million, financed with a $35 million bond measure passed by the cities of Santa Monica and Malibu in 2004; $5 million from other government agencies and from private donors; and a bond measure for Santa Monica College improvements passed in 2002.