(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.