The National Entertainment Fund for the Cultural Arts (NEFCA) and event Co-Chair Michael Steinhardt presented the 6th Annual Broadway Purim Shpiel at the Hudson Theatre on Monday, March 1st, 2010. For one night only, stars from Broadway's biggest hit shows joined together for the Broadway Purim Shpiel, a comedic retelling of the Purim story. All proceeds from the NEFCA production will benefit The Birthright Israel Foundation, an organization dedicated to sending young Jews from across the world to Israel.
The evening was be hosted by stage and screen star Richard Kind. The cast for the performance will include a slew of Broadway stars including Eric Anderson, Alex Brightman, Gaelen Gilliand, Christian Hoff, Adam Kantor, Chad Kimball, MODI, Jarrod Spector, Clarke Thorell, and Alysha Umphress, Savannah Wise and more.
The National Entertainment Fund for the Cultural Arts (NEFCA) is a non-profit 501 c 3 Production Company. NEFCA developed and will produce The "6th Annual Broadway Purim Shpiel," a benefit for The Birthright Israel Foundation. NEFCA prides itself on improving the image of different charities by producing unique and entertaining benefit events per request. Non-profits are desperately seeking out fresh fundraising programs to avoid the saturated market of monotonous charity dinners. NEFCA provides that originality and works with charities to brand them as trendier and more interesting. NEFCA develops many different kinds of events including but not limited to film, theater and television projects. For more information, visit www.nefca.org.
The Birthright Israel Foundation provides the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. Birthright Israel's founders created this program to send thousands of young Jewish adults from all over the world to Israel as a gift in order to diminish the growing division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world; to strengthen the sense of solidarity among world Jewry; and to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people. For more information, visit www.birthrightisrael.com.
Photo Credit: Amy Shaughnessy
