Tulipomania at the Arden Theatre
Before we had the subprime mortgage crisis, Holland had the Tulip bulb bubble. From the writer and composer of Café Puttanesca and Baby Case comes a new musical that gets high off our financial lows.
Experience the tulip bulb bubble in the form of a new musical!
Before we had the subprime mortgage crisis, Holland had the Tulip bulb bubble. Six strangers in an Amsterdam hash bar recall this seedy story of love, sex, money, and power. From the writer and composer of Café Puttanesca and Baby Case comes a new musical that gets high off our financial lows.
Join the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Philadelphia on Tuesday, June 12th for a special evening at the Arden Theatre. We'll begin the evening with wine and refreshments, followed by a discussion with economist, Kevin Gillen, and communications expert, Mary Flannery.
Mary Flannery was Business News editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer during the rise and collapse of the Tech Bubble. During her 25-year career as a journalist, she also was the multi-media editor for the Inquirer and a health-care reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. She received a Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship in 1993 and authored a non-fiction book on an internationally-renowned treatment program for people with mental illness entitled Fountain House (Hazelden, 1996). She began her career as a sportswriter and was the beat writer for the New York Islanders at The New York Daily News. She left the Inquirer to head communications at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and is now the Director of Communications at Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership. Ms. Flannery is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Kevin Gillen, Ph.D. is Vice President of Econsult Corporation. With a background in urban economics and real estate finance, Dr. Gillen’s research has been cited in the Wall St. Journal, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine. He has provided testimony to the Philadelphia City Council, the Pennsylvania State Legislature and the U.S. Congress. Dr. Gillen received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics in 2005 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Award and Lincoln Land Institute Dissertation Fellowship. He retains an affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania as a Research Fellow in its Institute for Urban Research, through which he publishes his quarterly reports on the current state of the Philadelphia region’s real estate markets. Prior to attending Wharton, Dr. Gillen worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and HUD’s Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
Program:
5:30pm – wine and light refreshments, followed by a discussion in the Independence Foundation Studio
7:00pm – performance of Tulipomania: The Musical on the F. Otto Haas Stage
Tickets are $25. Space is limited, so sign up soon! (Recommended for 9th grade and older)
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Tulipmania at the Arden Theatre
June 12th, 2012, 5:30 pm
40 N. 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19106