84 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | MAY/JUNE 2018
Center for the Performing Arts in
Tampa, welcomed Impresario Donors
to special dinners before Opera Tampa’s
productions of The Marriage of Figaro
and Macbeth.....Marsha Uhler, owner
of Cassi & Co. Fashions in Belleair
Bluffs, chaired and co-ordinated the
third annual Fashions of Belleair
benefit for Abilities Guild’s Veterans
Mall for recently homeless and
wounded veterans.....Meredith
Newman and Cheryl Adams of Tampa
and Cheri O’Neil of St. Pete Beach
were the hosting co-chairs of “Twisting
the Night Away,” the Children’s Home
Network’s A Night to Remember
fundraiser with dancing to The
Fabulous Rockers in Tampa…..Eric
Davis, artistic director of freeFall
Theatre Company in St. Petersburg,
and Cheryl Forchilli, its executive
director, treated supporters to a sneak
peek at the group’s 2018/2019 season,
special performances and a tour of the
private art collection during freeFall’s
ninth annual Season Announcement
Party.....Chris Daughtry, awardwinning
rock star, entertained Ruth
Eckerd Hall’s Superstars and Founders
Circle members during “The Hits So
Far” at an Old Florida-themed Friends
of Music dining and music experience
in Dunedin.....Bob Gries hosted his
Ear to Tampa Bay
Haley Lauren Martinez, daughter of
Dr. Luis and Lauren Martinez of St. Petersburg,
married John William Ruetz II, managing
partner of 400 Beach Seafood and the Annex,
son of Nancy and Steve Westphal of
St. Petersburg and John Ruetz Sr. of Michigan.
The wedding was at St. Paul’s Church with
the reception at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club.