Banderas, Fierstein, John, Menzel, Peters, Miranda and More Appear on Carols for a Cure 10

Rock-It Science Records presents Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Volume 10. Featuring highlights from the Volumes 1-9, as well as the incredible talents of stars from the 2008 Broadway season, the annual holiday CD benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). This two-disc set offers 36 original and traditional holiday songs recorded especially for this benefit CD, and features The cast of Billy Elliot with the premiere of an original song by Elton John, "Cold Christmas." Included are the voices of Antonio Banderas, Harvey Fierstein, Idina Menzel, Bernadette Peters, and Andréa Burns, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nick Jonas and American Idol's Constantine Maroulis and Ace Young, plus new recordings with performances by stars from In the Heights, South Pacific, Wicked plus many more! Also performing on this year's CD are Rosie's Broadway Kids, young students in the performing arts program founded by Rosie O'Donnell.

Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Volume 10 can be ordered for only $20 through BC/EFA at broadwaycares.org or by calling (212) 840-0770 x250 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST. Additionally, the CDs are sold during a six-week "Gypsy-of-the-Year" fundraising period from mid-October through mid-December at participating Broadway and off-Broadway shows in New York. The CDs also are available at select venues throughout the U.S., including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; The LA Phil Store in Disney Hall; and The Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities in Colorado.

Produced by Lynn Pinto for Rock-It Science Records, the Carols for a Cure series of recordings has raised over $2.5 million for BC/EFA since its inception in 1999, providing support and care for those suffering with AIDS, as well as lending support to women's health issues. Pinto, a classically trained singer who made her Broadway debut in the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music, has been producing recordings for BC/EFA and many other artists ever since. Over the years, Carols for a Cure CDs have featured special performances by stars Bernadette Peters, Idina Menzel, Antonio Banderas, Hugh Jackman, Harvey Fierstein, Raul Esparza, john tartaglia, Darlene Love, Hugh Panaro, Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole, Brad Oscar, Andrea McArdle, Donna Lynne Champlin, Phyllis Newman, Judith Ivey, and Susan Egan among others.

TRACK LIST: 

1. Avenue Q: The Eight Loneliest Nights of the Year
2. Altar Boyz: Shepherd's Fury
3. Billy Elliot:  Cold Christmas
4. Grease: The First Noel
5. Gypsy: Room in my Heart
6. Hairspray: Santa's Comin' to Town
7. In the Heights: Los Peces en el Rio
8. Jersey Boys: The Birthday of a King/Go Tell It on the Mountain
9. The Lion King: Carol of the Bells
10. The Little Mermaid: Children Go Where I Send Thee
11. Little Shop of Horrors: This Little Light of Mine
12. Local 802 AFM: Holiday Reverie for Oboe and String Quartet
13. Martin Charnin & Richard Gray: Hanukkah Gloves
14. Mamma Mia: Jingle Bells
15. Mary Poppins: The Holly and the Ivy
16. The Phantom of the Opera: Away in a Manger
17. Rent: Seasons/Love Heals
18. Rosie's Broadway Kids: (We Wanna See) Santa Do the Mambo
19. Monty Python's: Spamalot Christmas Morning
20. Spring Awakening: I Wonder as I Wander
21. South Pacific: I Saw Three Ships
22. A Tale of Two Cities: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
23. Irving Berlin's White Christmas: In The Bleak Midwinter
24. Wicked: The Coventry Carol (Lullay)
25. Xanadu:  Hit the Deck (Deck the Halls, Disco Remix)
26. Young Frankenstein: O Tannenbaum
27. 1998 Sound of Music: Good King Wenceslas
28. 1999 Annie Get Your Gun: White Christmas
29. 2002 Beauty and the Beast: Joy to the World (A Christmas Prayer)
30. 2003 Nine: Los Peces En El Rio
31. 2003 Wicked: I Saw Three Ships
32. 2003 Hairspray:  Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
33. 2004 Bombay Dreams: Joy to the World
34. 2005 The Great American Trailer Park Musical: Christmas in My Mobile Home
35. 2006 The Wedding Singer: The Hanukkah Song
36. 2007 Monty Python's Spamalot: It was Simple Then

Rock-it Science Records (www.rock-itscience.com) is an independent record label based in New York City co-founded by Broadway performer and producer Lynn Pinto. RSR produces recordings for members of the Broadway community and Broadway's leading charity, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (www.broadwaycares.org). RSR's most popular series is the annual Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, which is currently in its tenth year. This highly anticipated annual holiday release features casts from the current season of shows performing new and traditional holiday music. Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure offers a "snapshot" of each Broadway season, as The casts and orchestras from each show on Broadway perform their own holiday track. Since 1999, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure has featured the creative talents of thousands of Broadway's brightest stars and has raised over $2.5 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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