Charles Henderson

Auli'i Cravalho and Damon J. Gillespie are on hand to award R.I.S.E. America Project grants to high schools across the country, ensuring some dreams really do come true.

 Fifty high schools have risen above 1,000 applicants to claim NBC's R.I.S.E. America grants. The program – inspired by the network's upcoming drama “Rise” about a high school theatre department and its effects on a small town – is awarding half million dollars to high school theatre programs across the country. 

Broadway divas lend their voices for the VOICELESS CD, released July 15, 2013, as an anthem song for the welfare of suffering animals. 'Voiceless' anthem song was written for animal protection by animal loving advocates Ann Crumb, Judy McLane and Olga Merediz.

Broadway's MAMMA MIA! stars Judy McLane and Stacia Fernandez have taken the initiative to form a new grassroots organization called BROADWAY FOSTERS FOR SANDY to round up foster parents to give these innocent animals a place to call home until their families can get resettled.