Photo Coverage: Broadway Acoustic Soul Benefit

The cast of Wicked hosted "Broadway Acoustic Soul" on Monday, May 15 at 7 PM at Central Presbyterian Church (593 Park Avenue at 64th Street) to raise money for Quilts for Kids.

Quilts designed with the show logos and signed by the casts will be auctioned live by Michael Maloney of ABC's "Extreme Home Makeover." The event was produced and directed by Anthony Galde and Schele Williams, who previously produced the successful "Hurricane Katrina Benefit: Broadway to Bourbon Street" at the Gershwin Theatre last fall. Quilts for Kids is a grassroots organization that began in Linda Aria's basement in 2000. Aria took discontinued designer fabrics that were being thrown away and transformed them into quilts for children with life threatening illnesses as well as for children that are battered and abused. Since then QFK has saved over one million pounds of fabric from landfill and converted them into 30,000 quilts. That basement quilting- circle now has spawned 30 chapters worldwide.