Out & About
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Celine Dion gave a rare performance in New York last night, which raised $2.5 million for the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Who coaxed her onstage? Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, the infertility doctor who helped her and her husband have a son, Rene-Charles, who is now 3 1 /2.
Ms. Dion had another reason to touch down in the city: Sony just released her 20th album, “Miracle,” which contains lullabies and children’s songs, and is accompanied by a book of baby photographs by Anne Geddes.
Ms. Dion belted out two songs from the album, “If I Could” – “I’ve watched you grow so I could let you go” – and John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy.”
“Being here was important to me,” Ms. Dion said toward the end of her 20-minute performance.
She welled up as she attempted to thank Dr. Rosenwaks. “I don’t think I can find words to tell you how thankful I am. When I gave birth to my boy, I was born. I’m 3 1 /2 years old, too.”
The tears of joy kept coming until a guest handed her a white handkerchief – prompting laughs on stage and off.
Finally, she regained her composure and said, “I’m looking forward to do it again.” When Ms. Dion finishes her contract playing at Ceasars Palace in 2007, she’s planning to have a second child, using a frozen embryo.
Charlotte Ford, Lisa and Richard Perry, and Dr. Rosenwaks and his wife, Stacy, were the chairmen of the event, and Dr. Pat Allen and Douglas McIntyre helped produce the journal. The chairman of the center’s Board of Overseers, Sanford Weill, sat at table 75 with his wife, Joan, and Citigroup colleagues Charles Prince and Alan MacDonald.
