Theatre Benefit
The YW invites you to join us for two of Broadway’s most anticipated musical revivals!
Porgy and Bess (Sold Out)
Tony Award nominee Diane Paulus directs a new revival of Gershwin’s seminal American musical Porgy and Bess, featuring internationally renowned stars Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy, and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life. This classic tale is set in the 1930s in Catfish Row, a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. Bess, beautiful and troubled, turns to Porgy, the crippled beggar, in search of safety after her possessive lover Crown commits murder. As Porgy and Bess’s love grows, their future is threatened by Crown and the conniving Sporting Life. This heartbreaking love story boasts some of the most famous and beloved works from the Great American Songbook, including: “Summertime,” “Bess, You Is My Woman,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So” and “I Loves You, Porgy.”
Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 8:00 p.m.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
226 West 46th Street
(between Broadway and 8th Avenue)
Pre-theatre Dinner for Porgy and Bess
Angus McIndoe
258 West 44th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
6:00 p.m.
EVITA
This season, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary Tony Award-winning musical comes to Broadway in its first ever revival! This dazzling new production won tremendous critical acclaim when it premiered in London, and now it’s coming here with its original star, Olivier Award winner Elena Roger, joined by international superstar Ricky Martin and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris.
Eva Perón used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Argentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady. She won international acclaim and adoration from her own people as a champion of the poor, while glamour, power and greed made her the world’s first major political celebrity. EVITA tells Eva’s passionate and unforgettable story and features some of the theatre’s best-loved songs, including “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall,” and “High Flying Adored,” together with “You Must Love Me,” the Oscar-winning hit from the film EVITA. You cannot miss the production that made The London Evening Standard rave, “I have fallen head over heels for EVITA again!”
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Marquis Theatre
1535 Broadway
(between 45th and 46th streets)