Photo Flash: Norbert Leo Butz, Dick Latessa and More at CANY's Annual Gala!

Tony Award-Winner Dick Latessa, Honorary Board Chair, brought together Broadway stars on April 30 to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) which uses drama therapy to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults. This year's 2012 Annual Gala, which highlighted the CANY mission with the theme of "Creativity+ Community+ Change = Rebuilding Lives," was held at the Edison Hotel Ballroom (240 West 47th Street). The 2012 Honorees were Broadway veteran, film and TV star Anita Gillette and CANY Chair Emerita, Ellen Kealy. 

View photos from the event below!

Festivities began at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails, appetizers and silent auction. The program starting at 8:00 pm included musical performances by Tony Award winners Norbert Leo Butz, and Cady Huffman, 2012 CANY Honoree & Tony Award nominee Anita Gillette, Tony Award nominee & multiplatinum-selling singer and composer Ann Hampton Callaway and Broadway veteran & Grammy Award winner Billy Stritch.

For more infromation on Creative Alternatives of New York, visit http://www.cany.org/.