NYCLU Broadway Stands Up For Freedom! 2008

Anyone else going to this benefit concert for the NYCLU next Monday? Looks like a great set of performers this year: (Link Below)

Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Les Mis)
Michael Cerveris (Sweeney Todd, Assassins)
Daniel Sunjata (Take Me Out, Rescue Me)
Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America)
John Gallagher (Spring Awakening)
Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu, All Shook Up)
Celia Keenan-Bolger (Les Mis, Spelling Bee)
Anthony Rapp (Rent)
Gavin Creel (Godspell)
Julia Murney (Wicked)
Darius de Haas (Marie Christine)
Nick Blaemire (Cry Baby)
Todd Buonopane (Spelling Bee)
Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys National Tour)
Dana Steingold (Godspell, Spelling Bee)
The Cast of Godspell
And Founding Performer Liana Stampur with Clinton Curtis

Monday July 21, 2008 at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $60, available online. Student tickets are $20, only at the box office (the website says $12, but I paid 20 at the box office.) I'll be sure to post a review - see ya there if you're going!
Broadway Stands Up For Freedom!

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AN EXCELLENT ORGANIZATION AND AN EXCELLENT NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT!

Keep your eyes open, because on Friday evening, an interview (conducted by yours-truly) will be posted on BroadwayWorld about this event! Chatted with Donna Lieberman (NYCLU Executive Director), Jen Bender (Director), Daniel Goldstein (Former-Director) plus Celia Keenan-Bolger and Todd Buonopane

Tickets are $12 to all those with a valid student ID

As the list of performers is always subject to change: Michael Cerveris and Nick Blaemire will not be performing.

Awww, no Michael? Anyway, I asked the Box Office guy yesterday after I paid $20 for my tickets, and he said the $12 was only for NYU students. Apparently anyone else with an ID pays $20. I got Orchestra seats anyway, so I'm happy nonetheless.

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I went last year and it was a good time. That was the first time I had heard of Susan Blackwell and Hunter Bell and they were hilarious and touching at the same time.

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I tried to get tickets this morning and they were sold out.

On that note, if anyone ends up with an extra, please pm me. :)

Went only to see Michael Cerveris, so was very dissapointed. (What WAS he doing tonight, anyway?). But it was a fun concert after all. Glad I went.

Agree... it was a fun night. And great to see the entire company of GODSPELL up there performing. If that song (All Good Gifts) was a teaser of what's to come, Broadway will definitely have a great sounding production of GODSPELL featuring a stunningly beautiful cast.

Other highlights for me were the interperative readings of poems and Todd Buonopane's song (hilarious, but don't remember the title).

It was cute to see the entire Keenan-Bolger trio up there last night. Was it just me, or did Celia look a little tipsy? Anyway, ItsCalledHistory, Todd Buonopane sand "In Short" by Pasek and Paul. You can listen to it on their website:

http://www.pasekandpaul.com/PasekandPaul/Our%20Music.html

I love that song so much. When the intro music started, I giggled like an idiot, and the people around me must've thought I was insane. Oh well..

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Murney did give a terrific perf. of "Back to Before." Very impressive.

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Updated On: 7/22/08 at 01:02 PM