Community leaders star in mystery dinner theater April 21
Waterbury mayor, others help raise money for NVCC Technology Building

WATERBURY (March 14, 2007) — Waterbury Mayor Michael J. Jarjura and state Rep. Kevin DelGobbo will take to the stage next month in a mystery dinner theater show, along with a variety of other community leaders, to raise money for Naugatuck Valley Community College’s new Technology Building.

“The Backstage Murders,” the third annual mystery dinner theater fundraiser for the NVCC Foundation, will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, at the Grand Oak Villa, 550 Sylvan Lake Road, Oakville.

Tickets for the event, which sells out every year, will be available through April 9. The event will also feature a silent auction. Cost is $65. Call (203) 575-8045.

WATR 1320-AM radio personality Tom Chute will produce and direct this year’s comedy about a troupe of traveling community theater players who quickly discover a cast member dead backstage, and enlist the audience to help figure out “whodunit?”

Jarjura will play the troupe’s director and DelGobbo will play cast member “Fritz Fontaine.” They will be joined on stage by fellow cast members:

• Kristen Bulkovitch, president of the United Way of Greater Waterbury;
  
  
• Jonathan Kellogg, executive editor of the Republican-American newspaper;
  
  
• Lynnette Letsky-Piombo, executive board member of the Junior League of Greater Waterbury;
  
  
• Tom Hill III, vice president at Coldwell Banker Scalzo-Tom Hill Group and WATR radio host;
  
  
• Lynn Ward, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Waterbury Regional Chamber;
  
  
• Richard L. Sanders, NVCC president;
  
  
• Bob Sagendorf, WATR radio personality;
  
  
• Sheree Marcucci, marketing and public relations manager for the Palace Theater;
  
  
• Don Leona, music teacher at St. Francis School in Naugatuck.
  

Proceeds from the show will go to help pay for outfitting NVCC’s new $31.3 million Technology Building, which is under construction and expected to be completed in the spring of 2008. The building, NVCC’s first new building in nearly 20 years, will allow the college to consolidate all of its technology-focused programs on campus under one roof.

The event’s major sponsors include: M.J. Barlow Career & Staffing Services; Prime Publishers Inc., Voices, Voices Weekender and the Town Times; and D’Amico, Griffin & Pettinicchi, Attorneys at Law. For sponsorship information, contact Tara Smith at (203) 596-8676 or tsmith1@nvcc.commnet.edu.

Located at 750 Chase Parkway in Waterbury off exit 18 on Interstate 84, NVCC serves more than 10,000 credit and non-credit students from 35 communities across western Connecticut from Litchfield to Waterbury to Seymour to Southbury and Danbury. The NVCC Foundation, led by a board of community and business leaders, raises funds to meet major college needs and goals.