Things better left unsaid

Lauper, Janney, Shelley, Bean, Breaker and Houdyshell Join Star-Studded Defying Inequality Benefit

By Andrew Gans
February 13, 2009

Additional actors from stage and screen have been announced for Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert — A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, which will be held Feb. 23 at the Gershwin Theatre, the current home of Wicked.

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Espinosa, Gonzalez, Murney and Porter Set for Broadway in South Africa Concert

By Andrew Gans
August 8, 2008

A host of theatre favorites will take part in an upcoming concert at Symphony Space to benefit the new organization Broadway in South Africa.

The Oct. 6 benefit concert at the Upper West Side venue is scheduled to feature the talents of Sebastian Arcelus (Jersey Boys), Stanley Bahorek (Spelling Bee), Sean Bradford (The Lion King), Eden Espinosa (Rent), Mandy Gonzalez (In the Heights), Frankie James Grande (Mamma Mia!), Adam Kantor (Rent), Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked), Norm Lewis (The Little Mermaid), Julia Murney (Wicked), Billy Porter (Grease), Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde) and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson (The Lion King) with Gabriel Croom (The Lion King), Kenway Kua (Wicked), Ray Mercer (The Lion King), Brandon O'Neal (The Lion King), Luis Salgado (In the Heights), Rickey Tripp (In the Heights) and Phillip Turner (The Lion King) performing choreography by Dance Theater X's Charles Anderson. Show time is 7:30 PM.

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