Broadway LeAps Onstage to Hold Benefit Concert

Broadway LeAps Onstage, a concert to benefit LeAp (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program) OnStage, will be held Thursday, November 13th at 8pm at the Davenport Theatre. The event, raising funds and awareness of theatre arts education in underprivileged schools in New York, will feature composers and performers such as Scott Alan ("Anything Worth Holding on To"), Drew Gasparini (Crazy, Just Like Me), Anna Bergman (Lincoln Center's American Songbook), and Jessica Vosk (The Bridges of Madison County).

Other performers include Andi Alhadeff (Jasper in Deadland), Ethan Carlson (HATCHED), Anderson Davis (Les Miserables), Drew Gasparini, Chloe Gasparini, Kasie Gasparini (Mamma Mia!), Sean Green, Jr. (NYMF's Trailblazers), Skylar Gottlieb, Sarah Hamaty (On the Rocks), Charissa Hogeland (Heathers), Devin Lloyd, John-Michael Lyles (Jasper in Deadland) Mary Claire Miskell (13), Alexander Sage Oyen (Outlaws), Emily Rogers (Jasper in Deadland), Josh Tolle (Searching for Romeo), Elanna White, and Noah Zachary (Dear Edwina).

The event will feature the work of Scott Alan, Drew Gasparini, Ryan Scott Oliver (Jasper in Deadland), and Alexander Sage Oyen, with additional work from Ethan Carlson & Saidu Sinlah (NYMF's Trailblazers, Grassroots), Solomon Hoffman & Nick Parker (Fringe's Lydia and Tom), and Madeline Myers (LEGENDS & LORE). Solomon Hoffman will serve as music director.

Hosted by Ryan Scott Oliver, the event aims to foster collaboration between composers of various levels of experience and will showcase familiar, new, and upcoming works.

LeAp is a nonprofit, arts education organization committed to improving the quality of public education through a unique, hands-on, arts-based approach to teaching. Through this unique, comprehensive theater program, students write, act in, and direct 10-minute plays with the opportunity to perform their work on a professional stage. During this process Tony-award winning professionals meet with students, and renowned publisher Samuel French publishes an anthology of student plays.

Broadway LeAps Onstage is produced by John Fisher and Dana Jones. Nessie Nankivell is the evening's stage manager.

Davenport Theatre is located at 354 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036. For more information on LeAp, please visit leapnyc.org. For tickets, visit here.