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SHOWSTOPPERS!
A Salute to the Best of Broadway
Benefiting Gay Men's Health Crisis
Monday, October 25, 2004
8:00 pm
Avery Fisher Hall
Lincoln Center, NYC
Produced by: Peter
Bogyo
Directed by: Wayne
Cilento
Music Director: Robert
Billig
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Additional Production Team:
Written by: William
Baldwin Young
Set Consultant: David Gallo
Costume Consultant: Martin
Pakledinaz
Lights by: Mike
Baldassari
Sound by: Carl
Casella
On Monday, October 25, 2004, Gay Men's Health
Crisis will return to Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall with a
new and exciting gala benefit concert event — Showstoppers! — featuring
legendary Broadway stars performing the signature "numbers' for
which they are best known. Avery Fisher Hall was, of course, the
site of our triumphant 2003 concert production of Jerry Herman's
Broadway musical, Mack & Mabel.
The cast of fabulous Broadway performers already includes Stephen
Bogardus (Falsettos, Man of La Mancha,
1995 Tony® Award Nominee for Love! Valour! Compassion!), Liz
Callaway (Miss Saigon; 1984 Tony® nominee
for Baby), Deborah
Cox (Aida), Melissa
Errico (2003 Tony® Award nominee for Amour),
Tony® Award winner Randy
Graff (Les Misérables, City
of Angels),Tony® winner Debbie
Gravitte (Zorba, Jerome Robbins' Broadway), Ellen
Greene (Little Shop of Horrors), two-time
Tony® winner George
Hearn (Sweeney Todd, La Cage Aux
Folles, Sunset Boulevard), Irene), the
legendary Carol
Lawrence (West Side Story), Tony® Award
winner Priscilla
Lopez (A Chorus Line, Company, Henry,
Sweet Henry), Andrea
McArdle (Annie),
Brian Stokes Mitchell (Tony® winner Kiss Me Kate, and nominated
three times for Man of La Mancha, King Hedley II, and Ragtime), Broadway legend and
multiple Tony® winner Robert
Morse (How to Succeed in Business...), Pamela
Myers (1971 Tony® nominee for Company,
Into the Woods revival), Tony® winner Jerry
Orbach (Promises,Promises, Chicago, 42nd
Street), Christine Pedi (Little Me
revival), Alice
Playten (Caroline, or Change, Seussical, Hello
Dolly, 1968 Tony® Award nominee for Henry, Sweet
Henry), legendary performer and two time Tony® winner
Chita
Rivera (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The
Rink), and Colm
Wilkinson (Les Misérables, the original
London production of Jesus Christ, Superstar). And
that's just the beginning. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements
to come. This event promises to be one of the most sought-after
tickets of the fall theater season and one that will be remembered
for many years to come.
To buy non-benefit level tickets priced at $27.50 – $125,
please call Center Charge at (212) 721-6500 or visit the Avery
Fisher
Hall Box Office at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza.
Current Sponsors
The Director's Circle Sponsors:
The Michael Palm Foundation
Conductor's Circle Sponsors:
Hal Luftig and Dr. Stewart Adelson
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Orchestra Sponsors:
For all of your Catering needs, please
call 1-800-VERY-BEST.
Jonathan Canno and Pierce Roberts
PLAYBILL®
Melissa and Robert Soros
Jack Weeden and David Davies
Chorus Sponsors:
Richard V. Hamilton
Nancy and Alan Manocherian
MZA Events
Leslie Fay Pomerantz
Evan Sacks
John E. Schumacher
Patrons
Brian Albert and Joseph Ahumada
Corey I. Breier
Bob Bronzo
CFDA Foundation
Steven A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation
Dr. Rosa M. Gil
Todd Graff
William S. Hoover, MD
Cordelia Menges
Mary-Lynn Mondich
Mary Jean Potenzone
Dorothy Reid
Gary Shapiro
The Tomorrow Foundation
Saul L. Zalkin, Peter Steinman, Todd Geringswald
Herbert Zohn and Hely Lima
Cast subject to change
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