Photo Coverage: Broadway Stands Up for Freedom Concert
By: Linda Lenzi Jul. 18, 2007
"Broadway Stands Up for Freedom!," a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, took place on Monday, July 16th at 7:30 pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia Place, Washington Square South)
Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner hosted the event with NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. Nina Lannan and Jordan Roth co-chair. Performers included Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Spelling Bee), Kathleen Chalfant (Wit) and Shoshana Bean (Wicked), Tony Award winners LaChanze (The Color Purple), Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out, Assassins), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Les Miserables), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Spelling Bee, Les Miserables), Jenn Colella (High Fidelity), Julie Halston (Gypsy, Twentieth Century), Todd Buonopane (Spelling Bee), the cast of [title of show] - Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff and Susan Blackwell, Academy Award winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), and founding performers Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys National Tour) and Liana Stampur, with Clinton Curtis and Colin McAdoo.
Emmy Award-winning Seth Rudetsky ("Seth's Broadway Chatterbox") was musical director, and Daniel Goldstein (Papermill's Godspell, But I'm a Cheerleader: The Musical) directed. "Broadway Stands Up for Freedom!" is now in its fifth year. It was founded by performers Liana Stampur and Erich Bergen as a way to put into action their personal dedication to reproductive rights and other civil liberties issues relevant to them as young people.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has been at the forefront of challenges to recent abuses of power, from torture to government secrecy to spying on innocent Americans. The NYCLU is also currently working to oppose overly-aggressive policing in city public schools, abusive military recruitment tactics, as well as training thousands of peer educators through the Teen Health Initiative to understand and advocate for their right to confidential reproductive health care. As part of that campaign the organization is evaluating scores of entries—poetry, artwork, music and essays—that young people have submitted to the organization's annual Student Expression contest, about these and other issues. The winning entries will be read and/or performed by special guestsas part of the evening.
Visit www.nyclu.org for more information.
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Denis O'Hare and Harriet Harris
Marshall Brickman, Erich Bergen (Co-Founding Member Broadway Stands Up for Freedom) and Rick Elice
Marshall Brickman, Erich Bergen and Rick Elice
Jenn Colella and Seth Rudetsky (Musical Director)
Erich Bergen and Susan Blackwell
Donna Lieberman (Executive Director NYCLU) and Tony Kushner (Host)
Liana Stampur (Co-Founding Member Broadway Stands Up for Freedom), Donna Lieberman and Tony Kushner
Todd Buonopane and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell
Darius de Haas and Jenn Colella
Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell and Larry Pressgrove
Clinton Curtis, Liana Stampur and Colin McAddo
LaChanze, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Shoshana Bean
LaChanze, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Shoshana Bean
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Darius de Haas
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Daniel Goldstein (Director), Celia Keenan-Bolger and Todd Buonopane
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Daniel Goldstein (Director), Celia Keenan-Bolger and Dennis O'Hare
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jeremy Katz
Michael Berresse, Courtney Balan and Jeff Bowen
Nina Hennessey, Kate Pazakis, Naomi Naughton and Joy Hermalyn
Michael Berresse, Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell and Larry Pressgrove
Michael Berresse, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Barrett Foa
Jamarah Harris (NYCLU Communications Assistant) and Daphne Rubin-Vega
James Wesley and Seth Rudetsky
Barrett Foa and Todd Buonopane
Daniel Goldstein and Seth Rudetsky
Barrett Foa, Kerry Meads (Drums) and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Daniel Goldstein, Liana Stampur and Seth Rudetsky
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jamarah Harris
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Yolanda Culler
Seth Rudetsky looks up to Erich Bergen
The Cast and Company
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