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Friday, March 23, 2007
FAIRBORN — You won't have to solve an ambigram to have tea with Tom Hanks on the set of Angels and Demons in Italy this summer.
You will need at least $40,000.
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That's the minimum bid on a silent auction item that will be part of Wright State University's annual Arts Gala March 31 featuring round-trip travel and a week for four in Rome, where Hanks shoot the follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
Solidifying a connection to Wright State that includes a theater scholarship named for him and his wife, Rita Wilson, Hanks agreed to the on-set visit during a recent meeting in Los Angeles with producer Erik Bork, a WSU film grad, and W. Stuart McDowell, university chair of theater, dance and motion pictures.
Hanks performed at Wright State in 1978 in a touring production by Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. In 1979, coincidentally, McDowell directed him in The Mandrake, his only New York stage appearance.
McDowell, who will accompany the winning quartet to Rome, said, "We will see all of the sights."
Proceeds from the Arts Gala go for need-based scholarships to Dayton area students majoring in the arts at WSU.
The event will run from 6:30 p.m. to midnight March 31 in the campus Creative Arts Center.
Tickets are $150, $300 and $500 for entertainment, dinner, drinks and dancing. More information is available at (937) 775-5512 or www.bghstudios.net/ArtsGala.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2377 or tmorris@DaytonDailyNews.com.
