On Monday evening, February 23 at 8:00pm, the Broadway community (and beyond) is coming together for one of the most important events of the year - Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert -- A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, a one-night only concert event at the Gershwin Theatre
(222 W. 51st Street). Featured in the star-studded evening are performers from stage & screen - all to benefit equal right organizations including: Family Equality Council, Empire State Pride Agenda, Equality California, Garden State Equality, and The Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force.
For tickets and information, please contact Ticketmaster at (212) 307-4100 and visit www.defyinginequality.com.
The special evening, presented by the Broadway cast of Wicked, will include the Broadway debut of Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner Marc Shaiman's Prop 8 - The Musical, (as produced by Funnyordie.com), Shaiman will reprise his role and perform, and a special performance by Stephen Schwartz (Oscar winner and Tony nominated composer of Broadway's smash hit Wicked), plus, in alphabetical order: Douglas Carter Beane (Tony Award nominee), PJ Benjamin (Wicked), Stephanie J. Block (Wicked), Tamara Braun (All My Children), Kerry Butler (Tony Award nominee), Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman), Gavin Creel (Tony Award nominee), Paige Davis (Trading Spaces), Harvey Fierstein (Tony Award winner), John Gallagher, Jr. (Tony Award winner), Judy Gold (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother), Jonathan Groff (Tony Award nominee), The Gay Men's Chorus, CrystAl Hunt (One Life To Live), Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty), Capathia Jenkins (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Caroline, or Change), Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), Nathan Lane (Tony Award winner). Laughing Pizza (Parents Choice Awards, PBS daily), Adriane Lenox (Tony Award winner), Cameron Mathison (All My Children, Dancing With the Stars), Rue McClanahan (Golden Girls, Sordid Lives), Phyllis Newman (Tony Award winner), Patrick Paige (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), Nicole Parker (MAD TV, Wicked), David Hyde Pierce (Tony Award winner), Billy Porter (Ghetto Superstar), Seth Rudesky (Sirius Radio, Seth's Broadway Chatterbox), Sherri Saum (Rescue Me, In Treatment), Christopher Sieber (Shrek, Spamalot), Mary Testa (Guys & Dolls, Xanadu), Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), The Broadway Boys, Don't Quit Your Night Job, cast members from the closing cast of Gypsy, cast members from Jersey Boys, cast members from The Color Purple National Tour, cast members from The Lion King, cast members from The Little Mermaid, cast members from Mary Poppins, cast members from Saturday Night Live, cast members from Sesame Street, original cast members from Spring Awakening, cast members from Wicked and more.
