May 16, 2005 --
The show is gone, but the showmanship lives on.
The Vincent Club's ``Vincent Cay'' gala Saturday night was a torch-lit Caribbean beach party under a tent at Waltham's historic Gore Place.
The event benefited research at Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's health division of Massachusetts General Hospital.
For 110 years, the Vincent Club supported the hospital with an annual amateur musical revue. It closed the curtain on its show in 2002 and has since then relied on fund-raising galas.
But club members still love dressing up and acting out. Saturday's benefit was a casual night out in the Bahamas with island drinks, steel band music, buffet tables serving jerk chicken and seafood and gambling around a pirate ship teeming with treasure.
Lawson Allen of Needham chaired the casual gala that was attended by 350 people including club president Ceelie Beacham of Sherborn.