Tomo Yo: My Friend - A Benefit for Japan Held At Joe's Pub 4/29

Tomo Yo: My Friend - A Benefit for Japan held Friday, April 29th @ 11:30 PM at Joe's Pub

TICKETS: $20
All proceeds from the evening will benefit AmeriCares

SPECIAL KARAOKE PRE-SHOW featuring
Brooke Ishibashi, Jennifer Sanchez (West Side Story, Women on the Verge...), and Louise Stewart starting at 11pm!

Tomo Yo brings together some of the most exciting young theater companies, singers, writers, and artists to create a tapestry of new songs and scenes in response to the recent events in Japan.

Tomo Yo will feature the work of:

Telly Leung (Glee; Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Wicked, Rent) and Ann Sanders (Broadway: Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast)
with a song from the upcoming Broadway musical ALLEGIANCE

Brooklyn Soundpainting Company

2G featuring: Matt Park & d'Artagnan

The Movement Theatre Company and Kristine Haruna Lee directed by TMTC Company Member Jesca Prudencio

Misa Ogasawara

Mahina Movement

Tituss Burgess (Guys & Dolls, The Little Mermaid) and Alexander Rovang

A new short play by Harrison David Rivers (2011 GLAAD Award winning playwright), directed by Colette Robert

and featuring Lauren Hines, Christopher Larkin, Casey Robinson, and Jehan O. Young

Special video appearances from Joe Jonas and George Takei

TO BUY TICKETS:

http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5724
All proceeds from the evening will benefit AmeriCares

Tomo Yo will be produced by T. Rick Hayashi, Eric Louie, and Jesca Prudencio

AmeriCares and its relief workers in Japan are working on aid convoys to Sendai to help survivors of the record 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami as conditions in shelters worsen and radiation concerns continue to hamper relief efforts. AmeriCares is sending a large shipment of basic hygiene items originating in Japan for urgent delivery to shelters in Miyagi and Iwate to aid some of the hundreds of thousands of survivors who cannot return home. In addition to building a relief convoy for Sendai, AmeriCares is expanding its team on the ground and setting up an office in Tokyo to coordinate their relief efforts.