Anthony Rapp Live In NYC

[theaterfan2]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:49pm

I just heard that Anthony Rapp is going to hosting a Bingo Night benefit for a theater company in NYC when he is here filming RENT the movie. Anyone know anything about when this is happening and how much it costs? I definitely want to go!!!

[Akitarent]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 10:35am

Dear Friends,

I am looking for your input =)

Recently I had the pleasure of working with the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS team to produce, direct and also perform in a benefit entitled, “Broadway Rocks”, rock and pop songs from Broadway. The cast was all student volunteers (some with CD’s, music majors, theatre majors), who regardless of strenuous workload worked their ass off to make this happen. I even recruited artists – local and afar to design the set and display and promote their artwork. I did virtually everything (cast, advertised, directed, found venues, created the ideas, designed the website/program cover) and there was much success. I know it is nothing compared to how much money Broadway has raised, but in four days we made a great deal of money and played not only in Staten Island, but at the prestigious La MaMa E.T.C., in Manhattan, where we were sold out. Because of the large response, we are planning another show with time better and bigger. Because I want to do my best to make sure the benefit/cabaret appeals to an array of people, I’m asking your input!

I was tossing a few ideas around (the theme of Love/Revenge (songs from Broadway, Popular, Rock –leaving revenge for Act Two), “You’re Fired” (tentative title, singing songs from Broadway that were canned early on in their run (think “Dance of the Vampires”, “Merrily We Role Along”). “Cut/Uncut”: doing songs from Broadway shows that have been cut (like songs from Avenue Q, Andrew Lloyd Webber shows…) But the big one, our cast is hoping for is to do a Rent themed show coinciding with their 9th Anniversary. We would invite current, and Rent alumni as well as Broadway performers who have wanted to be in the show (i.e. John Tartaglia), to join us. I’ve noticed whenever a cast member has a concert they jazz up some Rent songs (Take Me Or Leave Me, Out Tonight, One Song Glory, I’ll Cover You, among others). So the songs would kind of be “remixed” and cast members would be invited (no real rehearsal time for cast member that already have the songs in their repertoire. Also, the show would go in a linear fashion, telling how Rent was created (using Jonathan Larson’s other songs, the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of “Rent”, as well as La Bohemé, giving a cast that is extensive in rock and opera a change to do both). Also excerpts from songs could be performed by the Broadway cast and the amateur cast. The audience could vote whom they liked better (I’m sure Broadway!) by “voting”: donating money to the “Amateur” or “Broadway” collection. At the end of the night we could see who won. Also it’s a great, easy way to promote the show (since we will only be doing highlights), reunite old and new cast members (also, I believe “Rent: The Movie” will be doing their exterior shots on location around that time in New York City), as well as promote theatre to people who have not experienced it –while raising a hell of a lot of money for such a noble cause. I don’t know who I would need to get permission from to attempt this. It would be great to have your support, as well as I would love as much input as I can get and as much talent as you can donate to this great cause.

With love,
Truly

Neal Bennington

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[proudpapa2]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 7:52pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91152.html
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:29:00 EST


Anthony Rapp to Star in Reading of Adam Rapp's Bingo with the Indians
By Andrew Gans
February 11, 2005
Anthony Rapp, who recently starred in the tour of Little Shop of Horrors, will take part in a reading of brother Adam Rapp's Bingo with the Indians March 6.The 7 PM reading is part of the Artists Showcase Series and will be presented at Makor. Directed by Carolyn Cantor, the performance will also feature the talents of John Gallagher Jr., Mandy Siegfried and Adam Stein.
Set in a New Hampshire motel room, Bingo with the Indians, according to production notes, is a "pitch-black comedy about a small, frustrated theatre troupe from Manhattan who plans to rob a famous local Bingo game in rural New Hampshire so they can afford to produce their play in the East Village." The play comes with this warning: Due to mature and graphic subject matter and themes, discretion is advised.
Anthony Rapp created the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway and London productions of Rent. His other theatrical credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Precious Sons; Six Degrees of Separation; Bright Lights, Big City; Raised in Captivity; Trafficking in Broken Hearts; Youth Is Wasted; Sophistry; and The Destiny of Me. Rapp's film credits feature roles in "A Beautiful Mind," "Adventures in Babysitting," "School Ties," "Dazed and Confused" and "Six Degrees of Separation."
Adam Rapp has penned Finer Noble Gases, Blackbird, Gompers, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Trueblinka and Nocturne.
Makor is located in Manhattan at 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Tickets, priced at $15, are available by calling [phone] or by visiting www.makor.org. A portion of the evening's proceeds will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.
Copyright © 2005 Playbill, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Updated On: 2/11/05 at 07:52 PM

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:00pm

Wow that sounds awsome. I wish, right now more then anything, I lived in New York or could find some way to go there. DAMN. If anyone goes, tape it for me. :-P