| LaChanze, Murney, Etc. Set for Bway Stands Up for Freedom
Tony Award winners LaChanze (The Color Purple), Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie), and Dennis O'Hare (Take Me Out, Assassins) will be among the many Broadway stars participating in "Broadway Stands up for Freedom!," a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union. The concert will take place on Monday, July 16th at 7:30 pm at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia Place, Washington Square South).Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner will serve as honorary chair of the event with NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman, Nina Lannan and Jordan Roth co-chair. Other performers scheduled to appear include Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Les Miserables), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Spelling Bee, Les Miserables), Julia Murney (Wicked), Jenn Collela (High Fidelity), Julie Halston (Gypsy, Twentieth Century), Todd Buonopane (Spelling Bee), the cast of [title of show] - (Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff and Susan Blackwell), Academy Award winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), and founding performers Liana Stampur and Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys National Tour).Seth Rudetsky ("Seth's Broadway Chatterbox") will be musical director, and Daniel Goldstein (Papermill's Godspell, But I'm a Cheerleader: The Musical) will direct.
Broadway Bullet Interview: Broadway Producer Adam Epstein
We talk to producer Adam Epstein about Hairspray, what went wrong with The Wedding Singer, and his upcoming projects: Cry-Baby and Ever After. ### You can listen to this interview and many other great features for free on Broadway Bullet Volume 119. Subscribe for free so you don't miss an episode. or MP3 Feed with XML Broadway Bullet Interview: Broadway Producer, Adam Epstein Broadway Bullet: Adam Epstein's producing career began at the very young age of 21, as an associate producer on The Life, and he has gone on to produce such wonderful works as Hairspray, also The Wedding Singer, a bunch of other stuff in between, and he's also working on another John Waters film, Cry-Baby, as well as an adaptation of the film, Ever After.
Television movies for the week of June 17
Abducted: A Father's Love '96. Chris Noth. An underground mother's group comes to the aid of a man who kidnapped his child from his possibly abusive former wife. (2:00) LIFE: Sun. 2 P.M. (CC) Accepted '06. Justin Long. After trying and failing to get into college, a high-school senior and his friends fool parents and peers by creating their own university. (PG-13) (1:35) MAX: Thu. noon, 10 P.M. (CC) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls '95. Jim Carrey. A sacred white bat's disappearance begets bloodshed between African tribes and puts the goofy pet sleuth on the case. (PG-13) (2:10) TBS: Thu. 10 P.M., 2:10 A.M. (CC) Adam's Rib '49. Spencer Tracy. Married lawyers clash in and out of court over a woman's right to shoot her husband and his lover. (NR) (2:00) TCM: Thu. noon (CC) The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl '05.
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