Date: 05/19/2008 Time: 07:00 pm - 11:00 pm
This one-night only musical theatre event took place on Monday, May 7 th at the New York Hilton, hosted by Four-Time Emmy Award-Winner Allison Janney with a Special Appearance by Hal Prince
MTC’s one-night only musical spectacular featured star-studded performances from the Broadway season’s best shows. The benefit show included fully-staged performances from the cast of A Chorus Line performing “One,” Raul Esparza singing “Marry Me a Little” from Company, Donna Murphy singing “Surabaya Johnny” and Michael Cerveris singing “It Never Was You” from MTC’s LoveMusik, the cast of Legally Blonde performing “Bend and Snap,” the cast of In the Heights performing “In the Heights” and members of the cast of Spring Awakening singing “The Bitch of Living.”
Designed with entertaining in mind, this black-tie benefit event raised $1.35 million to help bring theatre to over 4,000 New York City schoolchildren through MTC’s education and outreach programs, and fulfill its mission of producing new and contemporary plays on and off Broadway.
The co-chairs of the event were David C. Hodgson, General Atlantic LLC, and Jeffrey A. Sine, UBS Investment Bank. Vice-Chairs were Scott M. Delman, Joseph H. Gleberman, Goldman, Sachs and Co., and Susan and Peter J. Solomon.
