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Produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and benefiting BC/EFA & The Center

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*Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) and* The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center* (the Center) are pleased to announce...

BROADWAY BACKWARDS 6, a one-night-only event, will be held Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8 PM at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (220 W. 48th Street).

Never underestimate the power of a pronoun! BROADWAY BACKWARDS is the only annual Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian community, their friends and family and will feature some of Broadway’s biggest names singing songs originally written for the opposite gender: women singing songs written for men and men singing songs written for women.

By keeping all of the lyrics intact, including the original pronouns, each song takes on an entirely new dimension, sometimes with hysterical results and sometimes with immensely touching results.

BROADWAY BACKWARDS will give its audience a chance to see and hear some of the most treasured songs of the Great White Way in a whole new key.

Creator Robert Bartley will again direct and choreograph with musical direction by Chris Haberl. Last year’s sold out show featured dazzling performances from an impressive line-up of stars boasting four Tony Awards and 20 Tony Award nominations.

Bartley shared: “I am so proud to have created something that provides joy to so many here in New York and helps many, many more who benefit from the important work of these two extraordinary organizations, Broadway Cares and the LGBT Center. We are putting together an exciting line up of stars this year performing some of the most beloved songs of the Broadway stage.”

BC/EFA’s Director of Communications and Development Danny Whitman explained: “ Broadway Backwards offers the gay and lesbian community and our friends and family a chance to see the best of Broadway, but in a whole new light – or shall we say, a whole new key. Hearing Betty Buckley sing, ‘Once you have found her, never let her go,’ from South Pacific’s ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ without a pronoun change was absolutely stunning and seemed to touch this audience deeply. Last year, Douglas Sills’ charmingly giddy ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’ from *My Fair Lady* stopped the show, as did Broadway hunk Nick Adams leading the famous Sweet Charity singing and dancing trio in ‘There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This.’”

BROADWAY BACKWARDS began as a grassroots concert performed at the Center in 2006. In subsequent years, the event grew quickly, performing Off-Broadway at 37 Arts, followed by Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre and last year at Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont.

Additional performers for BROADWAY BACKWARDS 6 will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets are available starting today at www.broadwaycares.org or by calling 212-840-0770, ext. 268.

Sue Gilad will show you how you can make a great living by proofreading the kinds of books you would normally read for pleasure. (For example, she earned over $1000 reading The DaVinci Code.)

In this info-packed seminar, you will learn how to build proofreading experience from the ground up, begin earning freelance income immediately, land the jobs (even if you think you have no professional experience), make contacts and find untapped job opportunities, and generate a plan so you can read what you want, when you want - for money.

Sue Gilad is the founder and president of Maximum Sentence, LLC, a full service editing company whose clients include Random House, Warner Books, and Wiley.

DATE & TIME: Sat, Apr 17 • 9:30 am - noon

COST: 1 session • $59 Code DCB 478-13 • BRC

Optional texts: Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies, $20, and Paid to Proofread workbook,$45, or both for $60 (payable in class)

Sue will be the Voice of God in the upcoming Broadway Backwards 5 at Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont.

Never underestimate the power of a pronoun! With women singing men’s songs and men singing women’s – and the original pronouns intact – a song can mean something entirely new.

It started in 2006 when twenty Broadway performers came together to help raise awareness and funds for at-risk gay youth, HIV prevention and support, gay and lesbian families-to-be, and other programs of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on 13th Street. The event featured members of the Broadway community singing reversed gender songs. But that night, something very special happened. The SRO crowd realized that this wasn’t just about men singing women’s songs and vice versa. It was a chance for that audience to see and hear some of the most treasured songs of the Great White Way in a whole light – a more inclusive light.

In 2010, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Center are joining forces to present the fifth edition of BROADWAY BACKWARDS at Broadway’s Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont benefiting both organizations. BROADWAY BACKWARDS 5 will feature two dozen stars including:

Gary Beach (The Producers, Tony Award)
Tituss Burgess (Guys and Dolls, The Little Mermaid)
Mario Cantone (Sex and the City, Laugh Whore)
Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd, Tony Award)
Raul Esparza (Speed-the-Plow, Company, 4-time Tony Award-nominee)
Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, upcoming revival of Promises, Promises)
Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza)
Michele Lee (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seesaw, How to Succeed…, 2-time Tony Award-nominee)
Julia Murney (The Wild Party and Wicked)
Becki Newton (ABC’s Ugly Betty, Girl Crazy at Encores!)
Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly’s Last Jam, Tony Award).

Florence Henderson, star of the original Broadway productions of Fanny and The Girl Who Came to Supper and the hit television show The Brady Bunch will host. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

The creator of BROADWAY BACKWARDS, Robert Bartley, returns as Director/Choreographer of this special evening with Musical Direction by Wayne Barker.

Florence Henderson, who was an audience favorite at last year’s BROADWAY BACKWARDS, will serve as host for this year’s event.

To order tickets, call (212) 840-0770 x268 or visit: http://www.broadwaycares.org/Page.aspx?pid=741