'Charities to Benefit' Initiative Announced

Times Square Chronicles, MEDEA, and Columbus Wines and Spirits present: Charities to Benefit, an innovative initiative to bring light to the charities of choice of some of our favorite celebrities.

Each bottle of MEDEA will be programmed with a special message and autographed by a celebrity to be auctioned off starting February 1st online. The talented and generous Hugh Jackman kicked off the campaign with the proceeds of the sale of his autographed MEDEA bottle being donated to his charity of choice: Nomad Two Worlds Foundation, which supports and promotes artists from indigenous and marginalized communities around the world.

In the window at Columbus Wine and Spirits we will unveil the bottles of Bernadette Peters/ Broadway Barks, Phyllis Newman/ The Women's Health Initiative and The cast of Phantom with our charity of choice The Broadway League and Family Night Out have signed bottles.

Lainie Kazan for the Alzheimer’s Foundation, Richard Thomas for The National Meningitis Foundation and The cast of The Fantasticks for Bideawee will be on-hand to sign their bottles, as well as some surprise guests.

On January 19 we will be revealing more celebrities and store window displays. On February 1 our auction website www.charitiestobenefit.org will launch and on February 13 a gala benefit will commence. This is an on-going initiative throughout the year.