Marc Shaiman’s online tuner “Prop 8 -- The Musical” gets a Broadway bow next month as part of “Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert.”
One-night-only benefit will feature perfs by “Hairspray” composer Shaiman, “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz, playwright Douglas Carter Beane and thesps Harvey Fierstein, Lynda Carter, John Gallagher Jr., Jonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson, Adriane Lenox and Rue McClanahan, among others. Also on the bill are the casts of Rialto tuners including “Jersey Boys,” “The Lion King” and “Wicked.”
Concert will be helmed by Schele Williams and Anthony Galde and produced by 4Good Prods.
Event benefits equal-rights orgs Family Equality Council, Empire State Pride Agenda, Equality California, Garden State Equality and the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force.
Show will play Feb. 23 at the Gershwin Theater, currently home to “Wicked.”
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