Every year the casts of various Broadway shows contribute their time to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to record a holiday album, featuring new or classic carols for a special CD available during the Gypsy of the Year fundraising period. Sept. 9 and 10, The Producers, Urinetown, Mamma Mia!, The Full Monty and others will record "Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure 2001" at St. John's Lutheran Church. The CD will include the following selections:
"A Christmas Memory," Mamma Mia!
"O Christmas Tree," Beauty & the Beast
"Carol of the Bells," Blast
"What Child Is This?" The Music Man
"Silent Night," 42nd Street
"That Time of Year," sung by Labors of Love, (the agents, managers and casting directors singing group)
"Don't Let Christmas Pass You By," Kiss Me, Kate
"Davy Dinkle Tinkled in the Snow," Urinetown
"A Full, Frontal Christmas," The Full Monty
"Go Tell It on the Mountain," Aida
"The Cactus Christmas Tree," The Phantom of the Opera
"Let It Come to Us," Cabaret
"Away in a Manager," Rent
"O Tannenbaum," The Producers
"Holiday Trio," Chicago
The CD, sold for $20, will be available at the participating shows during the Gypsy of the Year fundraising season (six weeks lasting through the end of November, beginning of December), through the BC/EFA catalogue and on the BC/EFA website. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is on the web at http://www.bcefa.org.
