Photo Coverage: Backstage at the Ladies of the Lilly Awards Broadway Cabaret!
By: Walter McBride Oct. 18, 2016
The Lilly Awards Foundation just presented its fourth annual BROADWAY CABARET: BROADWAY STARS PERFORMING THE WORK OF WOMEN SONGWRITERS at The Cutting Room (44 East 32nd Street).
Performers included: Margo Seibert, Telly Leung,Keala Settle, Christy Altomare, Solea Pfeiffer, Kelli Barrett, Jarrod Spector, Amanda Green, Julia Murney, Constantine Maroulis, Jessie Shelton,Erica Sweany, Abigail Nessen-Bengson, Ann Harada, Allie Trimm, Aaron Simon Gross, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Emily Padgett, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Laurel Harris, AureLia Williams, Arbender Robinson, Adam Bashian, Chesney Snow, Aneesh Sheth, Jax Jackson, and Charity Angel Dawson. Guest musicians included Zoe Sarnak, David Evans, Julianne Wick Davis, Joel Waggoner, Lizzie Hagstedt, Meg Zervoulis and Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik.
The Lilly Awards Foundation supports and celebrates women artists by promoting gender parity at all levels of theatrical production. The evening will include songs from some of the hottest new musicals on and off-Broadway, all written or co-written by women and sung by Broadway stars, including Anastasia, Waitress, Sweet Charity, In Transit, Bella: An American Tall Tale, Little Women, Southern Comfort, Birds of Paradise, Hadestown and previews of songs from new shows by Masi Asare and Tony Award nominees Susan Birkenhead and Nell Benjamin.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Emily Padgett and Asmeret Ghebremichael
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Sara Wordsworth
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Sara Wordsworth
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Sara Wordsworth
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Janet Rosen, Sara Wordsworth and James-Allen Ford
Anais Mitchell and Erica Sweany
Anais Mitchell and Erica Sweany
Amanda Green and Georgia Stitt
Amanda Green and Georgia Stitt
Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett
Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett
Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett
The cast of 'In Transit'
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
Jason Robert Brown, Molly Brown and Georgia Stitt
Jason Robert Brown, Molly Brown and Georgia Stitt
Marsha Norman and Susan Birkenhead
Marsha Norman, Zoe Sarnak and Susan Birkenhead
Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross
Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross
Jason Robert Brown, Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross
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