The concert, which benefited The Gilana Shira Alpert Fund, featured songs that have a first name in the title. David Alpert directed.
Here's a look at the performance:
Performers set for the evening included Celina Carvajal (Toxic Avenger, Cats, 42nd Street), Allison Case (Hair, Mamma Mia!), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q), Janet Dacal (In the Heights, Wonderland), Madeleine Doherty (Sister Act, The Producers) Daniel Everidge (Grease), Autumn Hurlbert (Legally Blonde), Aaron Lazar (Little Night Music, Light in the Piazza), Darren Ritchie (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Wonderland), Steve Rosen (Guys & Dolls), Jessica Rush (Gypsy, Jersey Boys), Jason Michael Snow (The Book of Mormon, South Pacific), Lucia Spina (Legally Blonde), Stephen Spinella (Angels in America, Spring Awakening), Stephanie Umoh (Ragtime), Max Von Essen (Xanadu), Jim Walton (Merrily We Roll Along, Company) Correy West (South Pacific) and Amos Wolff (Follies).
The Gilana Shira Alpert Fund was established after Gilana Alpert passed away unexpectedly at the age of 26, and is used to continue her efforts of Holocaust awareness, theatre education and outreach, sexual education and equality advocacy.
