Take a look at a music video featuring a powerful pairing of Ragtime‘s “Make Them Hear You” and John Bucchino’s “Grateful,” which premiered at the November 2 Actors Fund Virtual Gala, above.
“To those in need in performing arts and entertainment, we say, ‘There is a community that hears you, and is here for you,’” said Actors Fund Chairman Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Thank you to Michael, Jelani, Chuck, André, Brandon, Joshua, Norm, Billy, and the Broadway Inspirational Voices, for reminding us all of the power of justice, and the power of gratitude this holiday season.”
Since March 18, The Actors Fund has provided more than $18 million in emergency financial assistance to over 14,700 people who work in performing arts and entertainment. All proceeds from viewer donations will go directly to The Fund, helping to support programs that foster stability and resiliency and serve as a safety net to everyone in performing arts and entertainment. To donate, visit ActorsFund.org/Grateful.
The Actors Fund today announced the release of the Make Them Hear You Grateful video to raise funds for their programs and services. The videofeaturesJelani Alladin, Chuck Cooper, AndrDe Shields, Brandon Victor Dixon, Joshua HenryandBilly Porter.
Stars from stage and screen will come together on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 for a concert to raise funds for Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff who are both running for the Georgia Senate run-off seats.
1865 Birthday of Fay Templeton, durable musical comedy actor from the 1870s to the 1930s. Her appearances include Roberta, Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, and Fiddle-dee-dee.
1907 Birthday of Cab Calloway, bandleader who epitomizes Harlem in the 1920s, and who occasionally appears on Broadway. Appearances include Porgy and Bess in 1953, and Hello, Dolly! in 1967.
1912Stop Thief don’t steal all the laughs! Frank Bacon and William Boyd lead the cast in the comedy by Carlyle Moore. It runs for 149 performances at the Gaiety Theatre in New York.
1914 It’s Hello Broadway from creator-director George M. Cohan. The cast, including the leads Peggy Wood and Louise Dresser, bring on and strike the sets, speeding up the pace of the revue.
1918 World War I dogfighters inspire a craze for flying. The first musical to deal with flyers, Going Up, opens at the Liberty Theatre and runs 351 performances, with Ed Begley, Donald Meek, and Marion Sunshine.
1977 Actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer Charlie Chaplin dies in Switzerland at age 88. In 2012, Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan use Charlie Chaplin’s life as the subject for the Broadway musical Chaplin.
1999Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding gives its 4,000th performance Off-Broadway. The interactive comedy includes an Italian-American wedding and a sit down reception with a meal.
2008 Singer and actor Eartha Kitt, whose exotic, sex-kitten persona and sultry, purring vocal delivery was unlike anything that had come before her, dies at age 81. Kitt was a best-selling recording artist, a Tony-nominated stage actor (for Timbuktu! and The Wild Party), a sex symbol, a paragon of both high art and high camp, and the author of three autobiographies.
2014Meryl Streep casts a spell across the nation as the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s classic musical Into the Woods hits movie theatres. Directed by Rob Marshall, the film stars Streep as the Witch with James Corden as the Baker, Emily Blunt as the Baker’s Wife, and Anna Kendrick as Cinderella.
New Production Stills from the “Into the Woods” Film!
New Production Stills from the “Into the Woods” Film!
Disney has released a handful of brand new still images from the Into the Woods film, which will arrive in theatres Dec. 25. Here’s a look at all of the official photos available so far.
In consultation with Dr. David Michaels, former head of OSHA, Equity’s safety team has created detailed instructions arranged according to the four types of productions commonly seen currently outdoor with an audience, outdoor without an audience, indoor with an audience and indoor without an audience.
