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Brian Childers, Brian Charles Rooney, Brandon Ruckdashel, et al. Set for Broadway Can! Benefit

Brian Childers
Brian Childers

Karmine Alers, Jessica Leigh Brown, Lanene Charters, Brian Childers, Russell Fischer, Kimberly Faye Greenberg , Madison James, Rori Nogee, Jessica Lea Patty, Arbender Robinson, Brian Charles Rooney, Brandon Ruckdashel , Brian Shaw, Betsy Struxness , Shelley Thomas , Alena Watters, Correy West, and Kristen Beth Williams will perform in the benefit concert, Broadway Can!, to be held at Don’t Tell Mama, on Sunday, November 14 at 8pm.

The evening will feature composer Seth Bisen-Hersh’s music, featuring songs from Love Quirks: a song cycle of unconventional devotion, More to Love, The Spickner Spin and a world premiere from his new musical, What If…? Laura Pestronk will direct, with choreography by Erin Porvaznika.

All proceeds will go to Citymeals-on-Wheels, which “raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New Yorker will ever go a day without food or human company.” Canned goods collected will be donated to City Harvest, which has “served New York City for more than 25 years” as a “food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children.”

For more information, visit www.sethbh.com/broadwaycan.