Broadway stars at DNC — Page 2

VintageSnarker said: "Idina Menzel, Lena Hall, Melissa Errico, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Seth Rudetsky's family, (skip), Jon Viktor Corpuz, Darren Criss, Richard Kind, (3 skips), Debra Messing, Kristen Bell, Adrienne Warren, Tyne Daly, (6 skips), Anika Larsen, Michael Urie, Len Cariou, (4 skips), Montego Glover, (skip), Alice Ripley, Ben Vereen, B.D. Wong, Carmen Cusack, Stephanie J. Block, Liz Callaway, Anne Hampton Callaway, Rosie Perez

Someone who's better with names can hopefully fill in the blanks."

UnwoundFantasies said: "Filling in a few of the blanks!

The first skip is Maryann Hu. Not sure the next 3. After Tyne Daly is Sharon Gless. Skipping again, but the two before Anika Larsen are Wilson Cruz and Paul Castree. After Len, I'm skipping 2, so then the order is Roz Ryan, Michael Longoria, Olga Merediz, Montego.

I could be wrong, but Liz Callaway mentioned on Twitter that her son was in the performance, and I think that might be him between Montego and Alice.

hopefully that helped and I'm sorry if I'm wrong at all ??"

Thank you both! This is great.

I thought they did a fine job. I think it is fine that Seth's daughter was there as well as others people didn't expect. This is a political convention not a paid concert performance. They were there to support a candidate.

It was James Wesley (Seth's husband) idea and helped organize...see link a few posts up. He can join whatever if he wants to!! And he may not be a Broadway star but he definitely supports Broadway. And the Broadway community is definitely more embracing if someone supports them.

Updated On: 7/28/16 at 12:37 PM

"But he's a bunch of times in a bunch of different events, concerts and benefits. We get it, you want your family to be famous.

But they AREN'T performers at all, much less BROADWAY performers, so why are they involved in something specifically labeled as BROADWAY?"

Yeah, sorry, I agree with this. It's not a father/husband "fulfilling a dream" when it's four times over. No one would deny it's nepotism, but it is nepotism to a frustrating extent.

Especially at a big event like this, when there were limited solos. Fine, have his family be there and sing along in the group parts, but giving a solo to someone who has never been on Broadway, and isn't a famous TV star seems weird.

Especially when as a result, Darren Criss gets to sing half a word and Len Cariou less than that.

Oh for goodness sake. It was a show of support for shooting victims and the candidate by the Broadway community. Who cares who was up on stage and singing? It was not a concert. There were no head mics. If you had the opportunity to be up on that stage, would anyone here turn it down? Some people like to complain just to hear themselves complain.

Again, though, this does not just pertain to last night. Both were featured on the studio recording, on Maya and Marty, at the benefit concert in Orlando Monday night and then again at the DNC. And as someone else mentioned, it does in fact take away singing time from bonafide Broadway stars. However, Aall who have said it shouldn't detract from how incredible this whole thing has become are completely right. It is admittedly silly to point out something so minute, but I did because it irked me, and others seem to agree.

Overall, I do think the varying incarnations of this song have been remarkable and it's sort of become a movement unto itself. To that, I say, brava Seth Rudetsky.

AHLiebross, Kristin Chenoweth has always been very vocal about her left-leaning political alignment. I know years ago when Bush was in office she was furious that a so-called Christian was saying such hateful things about gay people.

If I had paid money to see a benefit concert and this was how it was organized and presented, I'd probably be a bit miffed. But considering the cause; and that Seth was able to get all these performers together for this one song, AND this performance was at the DNC, I'd say that we shouldn't be too critical. It was badly orchestrated for sure - but it got the message across (I think) and at the end of the day, that's why they were there. I'm not sure how much money the song and concert raised, but I'm sure all those who will benefit from it will be very grateful.

The single went #1 on the iTunes Charts and 100% of the proceeds went to the GLBT Center of Orlando. That's a lot of money.

I don't think its out of the question to ask 'how much' has been raised. I'm assuming it is proceeds after expenses, so it is valid to assume that at this point, it could still be in the red. The 'fun home' people were very upfront about what they raised following the performance & I think that is admirable. Asking 'how much' isn't an obnoxious question.

Let's set some things straight.

It was 100% James Wesley's idea. He and Seth came to us while we were recording "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," and two days later we recorded it. Two days after that, it was released. James has worked tirelessly for months getting it heard everywhere to raise money. The last I heard it has raised over $100K. But we've been doing the Orlando concert and DNC, so I haven't seen any recent iTunes sales reports. I do know that I mail out many CDs daily the people order.

Everything was donated – all the singers, the arrangement, the orchestration, the studio, the musicians, my work, the producers, iTunes, Playbill's filming, even the printing of the CD. 100% goes to the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida. There's more info about that here: www.broadwayrecords.com/broadway-for-orlando

Four DJs created remixes of it because it touched something in them, and they felt called to be a part of it.

Many of the celebs have taken it on as a special cause dear to them – Sara Barielles performing it on July 4, Alice Ripley performing it at a benefit, so many of these people traveling everywhere they can because they believe in it.

From Broadway With Love: A Concert for Orlando was created by Seth Rudetsky, Kenny Howard and James Wesley; directed by Kenny Howard. We recorded and filmed that night, the proceeds benefit three charities. More on that at www.frombroadwaywithlove.org

Updated On: 7/28/16 at 09:08 PM

Thank you, Robbie, for that.

The ungratefulness and ugliness of some people in this thread is truly astounding.