The
cast of Wicked hosted "Broadway Acoustic Soul" on Monday,
May 15 at 7 PM at Central Presbyterian Church (593 Park Avenue at 64th
Street) to raise money for Quilts for Kids.
The evening,
designed to give Broadway performers the chance to sing classic Broadway
tunes with a contemporary twist, featured Carol Kane,
Megan Hilty, Eden Espinosa, Jenna Leigh Green,
Ben Cameron, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Rhett George,
Marty Thomas and Shoshana Bean
(Wicked), Daphne Rubin-Vega
(Rent); Adriane Lenox
(Doubt); cast members from various other shows, and the Broadway Boys.
Quilts designed
with the show logos and signed by the casts will be auctioned live by
Michael Maloney of ABC's "Extreme Home Makeover." The
event was produced and directed by Anthony Galde and Schele Williams,
who previously produced the successful "Hurricane Katrina Benefit:
Broadway to Bourbon Street" at the Gershwin Theatre last fall. Quilts
for Kids is a grassroots organization that began in Linda Aria's
basement in 2000. Aria took discontinued designer fabrics that were
being thrown away and transformed them into quilts for children with
life threatening illnesses as well as for children that are battered
and abused. Since then QFK has saved over one million pounds of fabric
from landfill and converted them into 30,000 quilts. That basement
quilting- circle now has spawned 30 chapters worldwide.
