Darren Criss and More Sign on for 'FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE' Orlando Benefit Concert

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Orlando today announced new additions to the sold-out concert line-up. The benefit concert, which sold out within two hours of tickets going on-sale, will take place on July 25th at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30pm.

Joining the previously announced cast of Broadway favorites are Darren Criss (Emmy-nominee, Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Glee), Lilla Crawford (Disney's Into the Woods, Annie on Broadway), Wilson Cruz (My So-Called Life, Rent) and Priscilla Lopez (creatEd Morales in A Chorus Line). The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, who will donate their performance as one of the sponsors for the evening, will accompany the performers.

Net proceeds raised from the performance and upcoming CD and DVD will go to the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Hope and Help Center and Zebra Coalition.

Additionally, more than 50 online auction pieces, including autographed posters and playbills, are available to benefit the evening's charitable partners. Three one of-a-kind items will also be featured: A solo seat onstage while Darren Criss performs his show stopping number from Hedwig, "Sugar Daddy"; a Hamilton package, which includes 2 tickets to the history-making production, a meet-and-greet with the cast and pre-show dinner with Ron Chernow (author of the book, Alexander Hamilton); and a one-of-a-kind, commemorative painting of all the performers who took part in the concert by NYC artist Geoffrey Doig-Marx. These items and more are open for bids at qtego.net/qlink/broadwaylove.

As previously announced, From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando will also feature appearances by Chita Rivera (two-time Tony Award winner), Norbert Leo Butz (two-time Tony Award winner), Kelli O'Hara (Tony Award winner), Jessie Mueller (Tony Award winner, currently in Waitress), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Tony Award Winner, currently in Shuffle Along), Carmen Cusack (Bright Star), Andrea McArdle (original Annie), LiLlias White (Tony Award winner), Liz Callaway (Miss Saigon), Josh Henry (Shuffle Along), Keala Settle (Waitress), Anika Larsen (recently seen in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Justin Sargent (Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark), Carrie Manolakos (Mamma Mia!), as well as SiriusXM Broadway hosts Seth Rudetsky and Christine Pedi. Michael J. Moritz, Jr. (Tony Award Nominee) will serve as Music Director.

The Orlando benefit concert is co-produced by Imagine Orlando, LLC (comprised of Tony Award winner Kenny Howard of Florida Theatrical Assoc., Joyce Arbucias of The Imagination House, Andrea Canny of PerformerStuff.com, Chris Yakubchik of Forster Boughman and Lefkowitz), Seth Rudetsky, James Wesley, Michael J. Moritz, Jr. and Broadway Records (Van Dean, Tony Award-winning/Grammy-nominated producer/co-conceiver of the first From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook).

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando is created by Seth Rudetsky, Kenny Howard and James Wesley; directed by Kenny Howard; written by Michael Wanzie with musical direction by Michael J. Moritz, Jr.

Many of the artists participating in From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando gathered at Avator Studios on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in New York City for a benefit recording of the iconic 1965 song "What the World Needs Now is Love" as part of the Broadway for Orlando charitable initiative. The record reached No. 1 on the iTunes song chart in its first week and broke into the Billboard Top 100 with no commercial radio play.

For more information, visit www.frombroadwaywithlove.org. #BroadwayforOrlando #LoveisLove.