Photo Flash: Broadway The Hardway Celebrates George Michael

Nearly two years since its original inception, Jacob Langfelder and Broadway The Hardway presented a sold out encore performance of FREEDOM, a Concert Celebrating the Music of George Michael and WHAM!on Wednesday, January 18th at The Cutting Room in New York City. The concert experience starred Broadway's John Arthur Greene (School of Rock) and Gisela Adisa (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), and featured Emmy Award Winner Lance Horne, E. Clayton Cornelious (Kinky Boots), James Harkness (Beautiful The Musical), Romelda T. Benjamin (Brooklyn), Ashanti J'Aria (Disaster) Heather Litteer(Lemonade) and Troy Hussmann. Natalie Tenenbaum (NBC's Maya and Marty) music directed.

Check out photos from the show below!

Created by Jacob Langfelder Broadway The Hardway series has been featured as one of the Most Unique Theatrical Experiences of 2014 by Playbill.com. OUT Magazine calls it "a completely different sort of immersive experience." The tribute to George Michael and WHAM! spanned his catalogue from the breakout classics Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and I Want Your Sex to the later dance hits Outside and Too Funky. The evening featured aerialists as well as Shibari (Japanese suspended rope bondage) by Marcuslikesit.

Photo credit: JD Urban

Ashanti J'Aria and John Arthur Greene

E. Clayton Cornelious

Gisela Adisa

Company

Natalie Tenenbaum

Lance Horne

Gisela Adisa and John Arthur Greene

Ashanti J'Aria and Gisela Adisa

John Arthur Greene and Band

Troy Hussmann and E. Clayton Cornelious

Heather Litteer and Marcuslikesit

E. Clayton Cornelious

John Arthur Greene

John Arthur Greene

Natalie Tenenbaum, Gisela Adisa, and Romelda Benjamin

Lance Horne

Lance Horne

Lance Horne

E. Clayton Cornelious and Romelda Benjamin

I Want Your Wham! Company

E. Clayton Cornelious

Gisela Adisa

Gisela Adisa

Gisela Adisa

John Arthur Greene

John Arthur Greene

John Arthur Greene

James Harkness, Romelda Benjamin, Troy Hussman, and Ashanti J'Aria

James Harkness

I Want Your Wham! Company

Natalie Tenenbaum and John Arthur Greene

John Arthur Greene, Romelda Benjamin, and Troy Hussman

John Arthur Greene

John Arthur Greene

I Want Your Wham! Company