Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Robert Morse to Headline S.T.A.G.E.’s Original Cast 2 Fundraiser, Dedicated to Betty Garrett

Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, and Robert Morse will headline Original Cast 2, to be offered on Saturday, April 2 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles. David Galligan will direct the concert, which will raise funds for HIV/AIDS organizations throughout the Southern California and will have musical direction by Mary Ekler and choreography by Lee Martino and Dan Mojica.

The concert showcases artists from theater, television and cabaret performing songs they originated in musical productions. Also scheduled to appear, and the shows from which they will perform material, are: Jonelle Allen (Two Gentlemen of Verona), Liz Callaway (Baby), Philip Casnoff (Chess), Patrick Cassidy (42nd Street), Mary Jo Catlett (Hello Dolly), Carole Cook (42nd Street), Barbara Deutsch (Godspell), Willy Falk (Miss Saigon), Danny Gurwin (Little Women), Bill Hutton (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), Jane Kean (Ankles Aweigh), Dale Kristien (Showboat), Sean McDermott (Showboat), Patricia Morison (The King and I), Pamela Myers (Company), Stephen Nathan (Godspell), Jennifer Paz (Miss Saigon), Valarie Pettiford (Fosse), Charlotte Rae (Three Penny Opera) and Lee Roy Reams (42nd Street).

Along with news of the performers, it has been announced that the April 2 concert will be dedicated to the memory of musical-comedy star and long-time Event Co-Chair Betty Garrett who died Saturday at the age of 91. Garrett had been scheduled to perform a number from Something for the Boys, in which she appeared on Broadway in 1943 with Ethel Merman. A musical retrospective honoring Garrett is now being planned as part of this year’s show.

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