Photo Flash: Original HAIRSPRAY Cast Reunites at Broadway Belts for PFF

On March 12, Broadway Belts for PFF! featured a "Sweet Sixteen" reunion of the Tony Award winning musical Hairspray. Broadway's Julie Halston emceed the evening, joined by Broadway stars Bryan Terrell Clark, Robert Creighton, Stephanie Gibson, Lesli Margherita and New York Yankees legend and Latin Grammy-nominee Bernie Williams.

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman reunited Tony-award winning musical Hairspray original cast members including Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Andrew Rannells, Jackie Hoffman, Julie Halston, Jenn Gambatese, Chester Gregory,Adam Fleming, Clark Thorell, John Hill, Judine Somerville, Hollie Howard, along with producer/honoree Margo Lion, John Waters, Josh Bergasse, David Rockwell, and Bernie Telsey.

Broadway Belts for PFF! raises money to fight pulmonary fibrosis (PF), a devastating and progressive disease involving scarring in the lungs. PF affects 200,000 Americans and results in more than 40,000 deaths annually. Fifty-thousand new cases are diagnosed each year. With no known cure, many live only two or three years after diagnosis. To date this event has raised nearly $1 million for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation and is the largest single fundraiser for the national advocacy organization, based in Chicago.

The mission of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation is to mobilize people and resources to provide access to high quality care and lead research for a cure so people with pulmonary fibrosis will live longer, healthier lives. The PFF collaborates with physicians, organizations, patients, and caregivers worldwide. For more information, visit PulmonaryFibrosis.org.

Photo Credit: Jenny Anderson