Gala evening in the theater auditorium named Vakhtangov on his sixtieth birthday and fortieth anniversary of creative activity of the main producer of the theater, People's Artist of USSR R. N. Simonov. Minister of Culture N. Mikhailov congratulates hero of the day, on the stage - R. Simonov, wife Vakhtangov - NM Vakhtangov, directors NP Okhlopkov, SA Gerasimov, artists of the theater. Welcome the hero of the day: the representatives of the Moscow Art Theater actors Toporkov, AP Zuev, P. A. Markov, M. Kommisarov, Kedrov and others, representatives of the Bolshoi Theater, conducted by Yuri F . Fayer, artist VF Rindin and others, representatives of the State of the Maly Theater: actors NA Annenkov, N. Podgorny, L. V. Yudin, and others; Theater School students named BV Shchukin, academicians A . Tupolev and AA Arkhangelsk scientists from the capital; writer AV Sofronov from the Union of Writers of the RSFSR. Hero of the day welcomed the characters performances based R. N. Simonov. R. Simonov advocates a return word (synchronously).