Two time Golden Globe Award nominee Chris Noth (Sex and the City), Bistro Award winner Tony DeSare and actress Traci Jai Edwards (Legally Blonde) have been added to the roster of talent for third annual Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS benefit evening "Salon: Six Degrees of Broadway Cares" scheduled to take place Monday October 27th.
SALON: SIX DEGREES OF BROADWAY CARES, BC/EFA's exclusive and unpredictable evening where partygoers mix rub elbows with some of the brightest stars of Broadway and TV is back again for a third year. This "Ultimate Insider's Experience" will once again return to the extraordinary residence of
Ron Pobuda on Central Park South. Noth, DeSare, and Edwards will be joining this year's stellar line-up of Broadway and Television celebrities scheduled to mix, mingle, dish and perform are:
Bebe Neuwirth (Tony Award® winner for Broadway's Chicago TV's Cheers and Frasier), Emmy Award® winning actress
Rue McClanahan (TV's "The Golden Girls"),
Anthony Rapp (original cast of Broadway's RENT),
Christian Hoff (Tony Award® winner for Broadway's
Jersey Boys), writer / actor
David Steen (LOGO TV's "Sordid Lives"), Broadway legend and Tony Award® nominee
Andrea McArdle,
Bobbie Eakes, (Emmy-nominated star of ABC's "All My Children"), 2008 Theatre World Award winner
Alli Mauzey (Cry Baby), and Broadway's favorite piano man and raconteur
Seth Rudetsky. As in the past, this year's edition of SALON promises an unforgettable evening of laughs, songs, and surprise guests!
Past "Salon" participants have included
Lucie Arnaz,
Paul Shaffer,
Joy Behar,
Milena Govich,
Christopher Sieber,
Jose Llana,
Norm Lewis, N'Kenge, Kevin Spiratas and The Three Graces
TICKETS - are extremely limited and can be purchased online at
http://broadwaycares.org/events/Salon2008.cfm or by calling 212.840.0770 ext 268
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS is the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grants making organization. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States. Since its founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $140 million dollars for critically needed services for people with AIDS and other serious illnesses.
BC/EFA is the major supporter of six programs at The Actors' Fund - including The AIDS Initiative, The
Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, 2 supportive housing residences and the
Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic at The Aurora in NYC - and awards grants to over 400 AIDS and family service organizations yearly.
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