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Broadway’s Rain and Wicked to Hold Benefit Performances for Actors Fund

A scene from Rain
(© Joan Marcus)
A scene from Rain
(© Joan Marcus)

The Broadway companies of Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway and Wicked have added special performances to benefit The Actors Fund to be held, respectively, on March 27 at 7pm and April 3 at 8pm.

Rain, performing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, offers a full range of The Beatles’ discography live onstage, including songs that the group recorded in the studio but never performed for an audience. For more information on the show, click here.

Wicked, which performs at the Gershwin Theatre, is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name, and tells the untold story of the witches of Oz, and how they grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. For more information on the show, click here.

The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps everyone who works in performing arts and entertainment. Programs include social services and emergency assistance, health care and insurance, housing, and employment and training services.

To purchase tickets for the benefit performances, visit www.actorsfund.org, call 212-221-7300 ext. 133, or email tickets@actorsfund.org.

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