Joe's Pub Hosts ARTISTS FOR ELEPHANTS Benefit, 12/6

The Broadway community comes together to support Artists for Elephants with a benefit concert at Joe's Pub, December 6th at 9 p.m.

The evening will feature Ron Bohmer (Ragtime, Little Night Music, Phantom), Jose Llana (Wonderland, Spelling Bee, Flower Drum Song), Carrie Manolakos (Wicked, Mama Mia), Seán Martin Hingston (Promises, Promises, Contact), Lucia Spina (South Pacific, Legally Blonde, Les Miz), Kristy Cates (Wicked, Jerry Springer), Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening, Bye, Bye Birdie), Jason Reiff (The Who's Tommy, Les Miz), Donna English (Lend Me A Tenor, Forbidden Broadway), the Joe Brent Quartet, a special appearance by Fiasco Theater members Jessie Austrian (Lend Me a Tenor), Noah Brody (Cymbeline), Ben Steinfeld (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Emily Young (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Andy Grotelueschen (Henry V, Cymbeline), Paul L. Coffey (Cymbeline) and a new song from the writing team of Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen (The Burnt Part Boys). The evening will be directed by Kent Nicholson, Director of Musical Theatre at Playwrights Horizons, with music direction and accompaniment by Emily Otto, additional accompaniment by Willem Oosthuysen and Alden Terry, and stage managed by Rebecca C. Monroe.

As recently as thirty years ago, elephants roamed freely over all of Southeast Asia, numbering in the tens of thousands. Today fewer than 3,000 elephants remain in Thailand. Most are working in the illegal logging trade or tourist parks, or begging on the streets. Many are injured, sick, or underfed and in need of rescue. Artists for Elephants is working to help these elephants and bring them to sanctuaries where they can live in family units, raise healthy babies, and spend the rest of their lives living like elephants free from back-breaking work or performing for tourists.

Tickets are available on the Joe's Pub website: http://tickets.publictheater.org/index.php?id=14260

All proceeds for the event go directly to rescuing and providing care for at risk and in-need elephants. Artists for Elephants is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a registered public charity. All donations are tax deductible.