Betty Buckley to Bring AH MEN! to Pantages Theatre, 12/5

The Actors Fund is proud to continue their "Musical Monday" benefits - a special series of intimate concerts with some of theatre's finest performers including Brian Stokes Mitchell, Melissa Manchester, Peter Gallagher, Valarie Pettiford, Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner, Sam Harris, Stephen Schwartz and Carol Channing. The Actors Fund presents a very special Musical Monday -in the historic lobby of the Pantages Theatre with TONY Award Winner Betty Buckley in "AH MEN! The Boys of Broadway." The concert will be held on Monday, December 5th - 8:30pm. 

Tickets are $125 and can be purchased by calling 323.933.9244 ext.434

Proceeds from this evenings benefit will go towards The Actors Fund's comprehensive programs and services. The Actors Fund provides social services, emergency financial assistance, healthcare and insurance counseling, affordable and supportive housing, employment and training services and youth services to all professionals in entertainment-not just actors but professionals in the guilds, unions, box offices and behind the scenes in film, television, theatre, radio, opera, music and dance.

Betty Buckley's career has moved between theater, film, and television for decades. Crowned Miss Fort Worth in 1966, she performed at the Miss America Pageant the following year and was spotted by a talent agent to audition in New York, where she landed the part of Martha Jefferson in the Broadway musical 1776. Other theater musicals included Promises, Promises and Pippin' (directed by her childhood idol Bob Fosse) and later Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats which earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and her triumphant portrayal of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard which won her rave critical reviews and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Buckley's feature film debut in Brian de Palma's horror classic Carrie got her the role of stepmother opposite Dick Van Patten in the hit TV series "Eight Is Enough." She went on to appear in numerous TV shows and movies, including Tender Mercies, "Cagney and Lacey," "LA Law," Woody Allen's Another Woman, Roman Polanski's Frantic, Wyatt Earp and more. Buckley continues to perform successfully on both stage and screen.

THE ACTORS FUND is a national human services organization that helps everyone-performers and those behind the scenes-who works in performing arts and entertainment, helping more than 12,000 people directly each year, and hundreds of thousands online. Serving professionals in film, theatre, television, music, opera, radio and dance, The Fund's programs include social services and emergency assistance, health care and insurance, housing, and employment and training services. With offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Actors Fund has-for nearly 130 years-been a safety net for those in need, crisis or transition. Please visit: www.actorsfund.org.