Photo Coverage: Inside BROADWAY STANDS UP FOR FREEDOM with Rory O'Malley, Krysta Rodriguez, Kate Baldwin & More!

By: Jul. 23, 2013
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"Broadway Stands Up for Freedom," the annual benefit concert of the New York Civil Liberties Union (the state affiliate of the ACLU), was presented last night, July 22 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld brings you full coverage from the concert below!

Tony Kushner and Krysta Rodriguez joined dozens of Broadway's finest, including Tony-nominated Charl Brown (Motown); Lauren Molina (Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd); and Andrew Lippa, Tony- and Grammy-nominated composer and librettist of The Addams Family, The Wild Party, and Big Fish, opening on Broadway in October. Show-stopping Tony winners Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam, Caroline or Change) and Randy Graff (City of Angels) will perform; Tony nominees Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow) and Anthony Rapp (Rent); Julie Halston (Anything Goes), Nellie McKay (Threepenny Opera, Old Hats), Lisa Kron (Well), Zachary Prince (Baby, It's You) and founding performer Liana Stampur with Clinton Curtis and the Clinton Curtis Band added their myriad talents to the evening. And the stellar Keenan-Bolgers - Tony-nominated Celia and big brother Andrew - created a tribute video that taps the talents of dozens of enthusiastic Broadway gypsies whose performance schedules didn't permit them to join in person.

The show was directed by Daniel Goldstein (Godspell). Georgia Stitt (America's Got Talent, Broadway Divas) served as music director.

Proceeds from the show benefit the NYCLU's youth programs, including its work with LGBT teenagers; its Teen Activist Project, which engages New York City teens as organizers and peer educators on civil rights and civil liberties issues; and its work to stop overly aggressive policing and zero-tolerance discipline in the city's public schools.

For more information about the show, visit www.nyclu.org/broadway.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Photo Coverage: Inside BROADWAY STANDS UP FOR FREEDOM with Rory O'Malley, Krysta Rodriguez, Kate Baldwin & More!
'Broadway Stands Up For Freedom' - The New York Civil Liberties Union Benefit Concert, NYU's Skirball Center in New York City on July 22, 2013

Photo Coverage: Inside BROADWAY STANDS UP FOR FREEDOM with Rory O'Malley, Krysta Rodriguez, Kate Baldwin & More!
'Broadway Stands Up For Freedom' - The New York Civil Liberties Union Benefit Concert, NYU's Skirball Center in New York City on July 22, 2013

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