Due to the snowstorm The Jewish Alliance for Change (Doni Remba, President) will now present "BROADWAY FOR A NEW AMERICA" - Standing Up for Marriage Equality and a Progressive Agenda for Change, on April 13th at 7:00 PM, at Peter Norton Symp hony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street). This was announced on the benefit's official website.
The benefit concert will feature a host of Broadway singers, performers and cast members from leading shows, including Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winners, stars from the worlds of television, film, music, and comedy, plus prominent political leaders, progressive and LGBT activists.
Added to the roster of stars are: Tony nominated actress and recording artist Melissa Errico; critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and recording artist Nellie McKay; Academy Award and Emmy Award-nominated actress Rosie Perez; the Tony, Drama Desk, OBIE, and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Lillias White; and Broadway, TV, and cabaret star Sh auna Hicks. Also new to the bill are B'way performers Hugh Panaro, Cheryl Freeman, Norm Lewis, Michael Longoria, Krysta Rodriguez, and Noah Weisberg.Announced earlier were: Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Stockard Channing; Richard Belzer, stand-up comedian and actor perhaps best known for his work on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU; multi-Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh (soon to be seen on Broadway in Irena's Vow); internationally renowned singing star Mario Frangoulis; 14-time Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs Award winner, Tony nominee, and recording artist Ann Hampton Callaway; London and Broadway award-winning actress Eve Best (soon to be seen on Showtimes's new series Nurse Jackie); "New York's Top Political Comedian" Scott Blakeman; Tony nominee Jonathan Freeman, currently starring in Broadway's The Little Mermaid; and Emmy nominee and Sirius Satellite Radio's "Voice of Broadway" Seth Rudetsky. Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor Jim Dale will serve as host. To millions of fans in the United States and Canada, Jim Dale is the "voice" of Harry Potter. He has recorded all seven books in the Harry Potter series, for which he has won two Grammy Awards, six Grammy nominations and a record nine Audie Awards. His Broadway successes include Barnum, Scapino, Joe Egg, Me and My Girl, Candide,and The Threepenny Opera. Marni Nixon, who had been scheduled to appear, had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict.Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
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