T-Birds and Pink Ladies Invited to End-of-Summer Showing of

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T-Birds and Pink Ladies Invited to End-of-Summer Showing of 'Grease' on Reynolda House Lawn

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (August 25, 2009) Reynolda After Hours will celebrate the final film in the Cinema Under the Stars series with a showing of "Grease" on the lawn at Reynolda House on Friday, September 4, at 7:30 p.m. Young professionals are invited to spend one of the last "Summer Nights" watching this musical about teens in love in the '50s. Filmgoers are encouraged to bring a blanket, pack a picnic, and dress in T-Bird and Pink Ladies-inspired costumes.

Admission is $5 or $3 for members and students. In case of inclement weather, "Grease" will be shown in the museum's auditorium. This year's outdoor film series, Musicals and Mayhem, is co-sponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. For information on other Reynolda After Hours events, please visit reynoldahouse.org/rah or call 336.758.5150.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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