'THE STARS ARE BRIGHTLY SHINING' Broadway Brunch Benefit Set for Today

Arbender Robinson, Crystal Dickinson, Jerry Dixon, Lauren Elder and Tony Award-nominee Keala Settle are among Broadway actors participating in "The Stars Are Brightly Shining: A Broadway Brunchtime Series Holiday Benefit Concert Treat" today, December 18, 2014 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at NYC's Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen (www.holyapostlessoupkitchen.org).

Jeff Cubeta and Alvin Ellsworth Hough, Jr. ("Motown The Musical") are the guest music directors and pianists, along with Alon Bisk (Cello), Will Curry (Violin), Michele Fox (Violin), Mark Ziegler (Bass), and other Broadway musicians extending their music support.

In addition to Arbender Robinson ("LES MISERABLES"), Crystal Dickinson ("You Can't Take It With You"), Jerry Dixon ("If/Then"), Lauren Elder ("Side Show") and Keala Settle ("LES MISERABLES"), the benefit includes Derrick Baskin ("Memphis The Musical"), Shannon Conley ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch"/"Lez Zeppelin"), Brandon Dirden ("All The Way"), Rebecca LaChance ("Beautiful - The Carole King Musical"), Kimberly Marable ("The Lion King"), Anastacia McCleskey ("Violet"), Betsy Morgan ("LES MISERABLES"), Azudi Onyejekwe ("Violet"), Devin L. Roberts ("The Lion King"), Rashidra Scott ("Beautiful - The Carole King Musical"), Sara Sheperd ("Beautiful - The Carole King Musical"), Rema Webb ("The Lion King"), members of Broadway Serves (www.broadwayserves.org): Dionne Figgins, Beau Johnson, Erich McMillan-McCall, Nicole Riding, Caileigh Scott, and others to be soon announced.

There will be meal-serving, performances, a toast to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, and a special salute-in-song to Arbender Robinson for his seasons of service, showmanship and support, on and beyond Broadway.

Broadway Brunchtime Series was created by Pump SportsEnt in June 2014 where once a month Broadway performers, entertainers, musicians, media personalities, pro athletes, and other notables volunteer from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. [on the last Thursday of each month] to serve meals, share cheer, sing songs, and also to extend HOPE to an audience of approximately 1200-1500 community-guests at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen - an emergency food program extending services to hungry and homeless New Yorkers on a daily basis since 1982. Arbender Robinson ("LES MISERABLES") is the current co-curator and host-performer. Broadway Brunchtime Series is dedicated in living honor of Mary Lorrie Davis (Broadway veteran, original cast of HAIR).