dinner dance

On the night of the shooting, Michalski was in Garden Grove for a gala dinner dance he had organized with his wife.

Against that backdrop was the contention from some — fair to a point — that UFW was a weak union that hadn’t organized so much as a dinner dance in decades.

"I was playing every pub, club and hole in the hedge, before the band, at a dinner dance, before the karaoke," Kielty explains.

Partners, who were named every two years, were feted at a black-tie dinner dance known internally as the “prom.”

The 500 guests at the American Theater Wing dinner dance at the Plaza Hotel on April 1, 1956, were not the only ones who saw Gwen Verdon, Paul Muni, Bob Fosse and Lotte Lenya accepting their Tony Awards.