Seventy-two performing arts groups selected from 110 applicants will perform at the sixth annual Bravo arts fund-raising event, scheduled 6 p.m. to midnight Nov. 20 at the Westgate Hotel. This year’s edition is the first since the event’s former single beneficiary, the San Diego Performing Arts League, bowed out in January.

Continuing participants are Bravo founders Georg Hochfilzer, g.m. of the Westgate Hotel, and producer/director Rob Appel of Appel Presents. Title sponsors are Sycuan Resort & Casino and Viejas Enterprises. Co-chairs are Esther Jane Paul, board trustee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Chuck Hansen, v.p. of community relations for Viejas Casinos.

“Our minimum goal, and I stress it is a minimum goal — since this is our transition year going from one beneficiary to 72 — is to raise at least $1,000 per participating group,” says Ron deHarte, Bravo’s executive director. “Clearly, Bravo has done much better in the past, raising up to $150,000-$200,000. Ideally, we would love to be in that same ballpark again.”

DeHarte says excess proceeds will be placed in the Bravo San Diego Performing Arts Fund at Wells Fargo Bank. The intent is to grow the fund and eventually to donate money to county performing arts groups through a granting committee composed of Bravo board members.

Bravo 2004 patrons enter through a tent on Broadway. The initial welcome reception takes place in a larger tent covering Second Avenue. Performers from Starlight Opera, the Civic Youth Orchestra, Jazz Xpress and the Grossmont Symphony will entertain during this portion of the evening, which includes welcome speeches from various dignitaries.

Inside, the nonprofit arts groups will present dance, music and drama at half-hour intervals on 17 stages set up in the Westgate’s ballrooms and salons. New this year is the Jung-Ho Pak Classical Music Stage. Pak, former conductor of San Diego Symphony, is president of Bravo.

Gourmet food and beverage stations will be in the hotel’s lobbies. Patrons at the Angel and Host levels ($1,500 and $750) enjoy exclusive salons and entertainment.

Dress is black tie or “artful attire.” Regular $200 tickets are available at bravosd.org or (619) 501-5192; Angel tickets through Terri Rodriguez, (619) 644-8319; and Host tickets through Arthur and Molli Wagner, (858) 720-1185.

Bravo patrons and San Diego Symphony concertgoers take note: San Diego Symphony (not a Bravo participant this season), along with the San Diego Master Chorale and the La Jolla Symphony Chorus, perform Verdi’s “Requiem” that night at Copley Symphony Hall.

— Charlene Baldridge