BROADWAY DOES MOTHER’S DAY
A one-time event. Just like your birth.
RAISES $150,000 AND COUNTING
FOR BROADWAY CARES’
COVID-19 EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND
A DIGITAL VARIETY SHOW FEATURING SKETCHES AND PERFORMANCES FROM YOUR FAVORITE BROADWAY STARS AND SHOWS
TO BENEFIT BROADWAY CARES!
AVAILABLE TO WATCH NOW THROUGH
THURSDAY, MAY 14 AT BROADWAY.COM/MOTHERSDAY
(New York – May 11, 2020) – Executive Producers Megan Loughran and Stanley Bahorek in partnership with Broadway.com are proud to announce that the Sunday, May 10 livestream of Broadway Does Mother’s Day has raised $150,000 and counting for the Broadway Cares’ AIDS COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.
Viewed by over 50,000 households so far, the livestream will now remain on Broadway.com through Thursday, May 14 at 3pm EST. Viewers can continue streaming the performances for free on Broadway.com/MothersDay and the Broadway.com YouTube channel.
Broadway Does Mother’s Day featured over 400 Broadway actors, musicians, and their loved ones who came together amidst the industry shutdown to celebrate family – nuclear families, and theatrical family. Some of the broadcast’s unannounced surprises included an opening number featuring the 2017 Broadway revival cast of Hello, Dolly!, with five Dolly Levi’s performing together: Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Donna Murphy, and Carolee Carmello, alongside David Hyde Pierce, Victor Garber, Beanie Feldstein and more; Brian Stokes Mitchell singing out his window; “never-before-seen audition tapes” for the role of Mama Rose created by Harvey Fierstein, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Holliday, Lea DeLaria, and more; a cameo from John Mulaney; and a moving reflection on motherhood and loss, written and performed by Celia Keenan-Bolger.
Sunday’s enormous Broadway reunion included sketches from 17 Broadway shows: Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations; Beetlejuice; Chicago; Come From Away; Company; Dear Evan Hansen; Diana; Girl from the North Country; Hadestown; Hamilton; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Hello, Dolly!; Jagged Little Pill; Mean Girls; Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Mrs. Doubtfire; and Sing Street; all coming together for a celebratory explosion of musical numbers, comedy, special guests, and lots of surprises.
The Broadway Cares’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund provides urgent health care and immediate financial assistance to theater and entertainment professionals impacted by the pandemic. Every donation helps our friends get urgent medical care, buy groceries, pay their rent and receive help with insurance during this pandemic and work shutdown. Donations can be made via this link.
Broadway Does Mother’s Day also partnered with Seniorly.com to ensure aging mothers in senior living communities and in their homes across the country were provided access to the online event.
The writing team for Broadway Does Mother’s Day included Hannah Friedman (Comedy Central), Megan Loughran (F Theory), Jessica Poter (“Modern Family”), Jill Twiss (“Last Week Tonight”), Kate Wetherhead (“Submissions Only”), and Jed Resnick (Avenue Q).
The show was directed by Ashley Rodbro (Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!), featured music supervision by Andy Einhorn (Hello, Dolly!), and was produced by Stephanie Cowan, Erica Rotstein, Heather Shields and Paul Wontorek alongside general manager Kyle Bonder and in association with Jessica Ryan and Broadway Unlocked. Casting was by Jason Styres, CSA and Andrea Zee, CSA.
ABOUT BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org.
ABOUT SENIORLY.COM
Seniorly is the fastest growing marketplace for senior living because we are empowering consumers to make better decisions when searching for senior living communities. Seniorly provides fully transparent data, local market insights, education around care options, and then matches searchers with local senior living experts. Seniorly’s marketplace has more than 35,000 senior living community listings, 300 local senior living experts, and the tools to make the entire search and move experience better. Seniorly was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
To learn more visit: www.seniorly.com.
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