Not much happening today as Max has caught a cold!...but we soldier on.....tonight is the Defying Inequality the Broadway Concert at the Gershwin Theatre, home of Wicked. This is a gala benefit concert supporting equal rights - mainly because of the passing of prop 8 in California last year. It is on tonight because most Broadway theatres are dark on Monday nights. The Gershwin is the largest theatre on Broadway and was fairly well full - a great crowd!
The line up was quite staggering - the evening started with Proposition 8 the mini-musical by Marc Shaiman, composer of Hairspray and starring Nathan Lane and David Hyde Pierce.
The singing lineup included the creme of Broadway including Stephanie J Block, Kerry Butler, Kelli O'Hara, Gavin Creel, Shoshana Bean, Malcolm Gets, Bebe Neuwirth, Capathia Jenkins, Billy Porter, Stephen Schwartz plus cast members from Billy Elliot, Gypsy, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, Spring Awakening, Color Purple, Little Mermaid, Hair, etc etc....
The evening was hosted by Carson Kressley (from Queer Eye) and Judy Gold and included speeches by the likes of Jane Fonda, Harvey Fierstein (a powerful letter to President Obama), Rue McClanahan, Sally Struthers, Cyndi Lauper, Jim Caruso, Tyne Daly (via video), Elton and his husband David (by video), a guy called Keith Olbermann (who got one of the loudest ovations as he was the only newsman who spoke out against Prop 8) and a host of people we didn't know.
It was one of those magical evenings - all four hours! - got home around 1 am - temperature 19 degrees F!
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