Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Vol. 11 Invites Rosie's Broadway Kids to Record

Once again, Rosie's Broadway Kids has been invited to experience professionally recording a track for Broadway's Carols for a Cure. This is the third season that Executive Producer Lynn Pinto of Rock-it Science Records has provided this opportunity to Rosie's Broadway Kids. The annual holiday music CD series (formerly known as Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure) is now recording Volume 11, featuring the incredible talents of stars and casts from virtually every show on Broadway this year, the annual holiday CD benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). This two-disc set will offer 20+ original and traditional holiday songs recorded especially for this benefit CD. Included are the voices of Tony AwardÓ winners Gregory Jbara and Trent Kowalik; as well as Donna Lynne Champlin, James Carpinello, Lauren Molina, Laura Osnes, Jennifer Barnhart and hundreds of Broadway performers and musicians.

Participating companies include the Tony AwardÓ Winners for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical, Billy Elliot and Hair, as well as Wicked, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia!, Next to Normal, In the Heights, Shrek, South Pacific, The Phantom of the Opera, and many others.
Founded by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell in 2003, Rosie's Broadway Kids is a non-profit arts education organization that provides public school students from low-income areas with in-depth instruction in musical theater at no cost to the schools or students. Its in-school program, PS Broadway, currently reaches over 1,700 fifth graders in 22 schools with instruction in music and dance. For particularly outstanding graduates of PS Broadway, RBKids developed ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence), a scholarship program after-school and in the summer which provides more rigorous training in the major disciplines of musical theater for students in 6th grade through high school. For further information, see www.rosiesbroadwaykids.org.

Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 11 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; Reprise Theater Company at Brentwood Theatre; and the John W. Engeman Theater in New York.

Lynn Pinto is Executive Producer of the Carols for a Cure series for Rock-It Science Records. Pinto, a professional singer/actress 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. The Carols for a Cure series of recordings has raised almost $3 million dollars 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.

Over the years, Carols for a Cure CDs have featured special performances by stars Nick Jonas, 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, Phyllis Newman, Judith Ivey, and Susan Egan among others.

TRACK LIST:
Altar Boyz O Chanukah, O Chanukah

Avenue Q Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Billy Elliot Incredible Phat

Chicago We Three Kings

Finian's Rainbow O Little Town of Bethlethem

Hair Da Pacem Domine

In the Heights Campana Sobre Campana

Jersey Boys 12 Days of a Jersey Christmas

The Lion King Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth

The Little Mermaid Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

Mamma Mia! Blizzard of Peace

Mary Poppins Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella

Next to Normal This Little Light of Mine

Phantom The Holly & the Ivy
Rent (Engeman Theater) We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Rock of Ages O Holy Night

Rosie"s Broadway Kids Here We Come A-Caroling

Shrek TBA original

South Pacific Silent Night

West Side Story Jingle Bells

Wicked Carol of the Bells

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 Carols for a Cure (formerly Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure), which is currently in its eleventh year. This highly anticipated annual holiday release features casts from the current season of shows performing new and traditional holiday music. Broadway's 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 Carols for a Cure has featured the creative talents of thousands of Broadway's brightest stars and has raised almost three million dollars for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.