Aaron Tveit, Lea Salonga, Shanice Williams & More Take the Stage Tonight at MCC's MISCAST 2016

MCC Theater's Miscast gala, an annual highlight of the New York Theater season, honors Oscar winning star of stage & screen and MCC alum Marisa Tomei. Miscast 2016 will be held tonight, April 4, 2016 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street).

The gala will feature appearances by Emmy Award nominee Tituss Burgess; Tony Award winners Lea Salonga and Linda Lavin; Tony Award nominee Keala Settle; and stage and screen stars Ana Gasteyer, Aaron Tveit, Beth Behrs, Megan Hilty, Cynthia Erivo, Ana Villafañe, and Shanice Williams.

Show-only mezzanine level tickets are now on sale and begin at $99 with $149 Show-only Premium Seats at www.mcctheater.org/galamiscast.html. To purchase gala tickets, please contact Nick Vermane at (212) 727-7722, ext. 232 or via email at nvername@mcctheater.org. Mezzanine level show-only tickets available for purchase beginning on February 2, 2016 via OvationTix.

MCC Theater's annual Miscast gala is one of the most exciting and unique theater events in town. Broadway's hottest stars perform songs from roles in which they would never be cast.

Proceeds from Miscast 2016 will, as always, support MCC Theater's mission to develop and produce exciting work Off-Broadway, as well as its Youth Company and partnerships with New York City public high schools, and MCC's literary development work with emerging playwrights. For the last 15 years, MCC Theater's education and outreach programs have embodied our mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Our programs have grown from an eight-member Youth Company ensemble in 1999 to serving over 100 public high school students each year in several branches, including an Acting Lab, a Playwriting Lab, an Ambassadors program, two school campus-based satellite programs, and classroom partnerships. These programs empower students to achieve higher academic success and become more civically engaged. Each year 90-100% of Youth Company seniors graduate from high school in four years and enroll in college.

Watch highlights from last year's event below!