MAC Award winner and Metropolitan Room headliner Amy Wolk (Different for Girls) and Gerard Salvador (Mamma Mia!) create and produce the event which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The assembled line-up features Spring Awakening Tony nominee Jonathan Groff, The Little Mermaid's Tituss Burgess, as well as Rob Evan (Jekyll & Hyde), Dennis Moench (Altar Boyz), Justin Patterson (Young Frankenstein), Steve Rosen (The Farnsworth Invention), Brandon Cutrell ("The After Party") and cabaret duo Karen Mack and Michael Holland. MAC winner Steven Ray Watkins will serve as musical director.

Showtime for Friends With Benefits is 9:30 PM. The Metropolitan Room is located in Manhattan at 34 West 22nd Street. There is a $15 cover charge and a two-drink minimum; call (212) 206-0440 for reservations.

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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the nation's largest industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization. Since its founding in 1988 the organization has distributed over $100 million for services for people with AIDS, HIV or HIV-related illnesses. For more information call (212) 840-0770 or visit www.bcefa.org.