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Media Alert: Dancing with the Stars for Good Causes

Capital Region Celebrities to Compete at Albany-Tula Alliance Gala

GLENMONT, NY (04/07/2008; 1129)(readMedia)-- WHAT: A benefit for the Albany-Tula Alliance and other Capital Region non-profits

WHO: Celebrity Dancers with professional dancers from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in a dance competition for their favorite non-profits: Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill (Capital Repertory Theatre); E. Stewart Jones, Jr. (Gilda's Club); Lee McElroy (Bethlehem YMCA); David Allen Miller (Albany Symphony Orchestra; Marcia White (Saratoga Performing Arts Center); Alissa Quinn (Zoller Inner City Schenectady School Dance Program).

WHEN: Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

WHERE: National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, New York

WHY: At this unique community event, Celebrity Dancers will be competing to benefit their chosen non-profits as well as the Alliance. The Albany-Tula Alliance supports education, business opportunities and training, public health, law and tourism that benefit the Capital Region and our sister city of Tula, Russia.

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