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News Memphis Offers Actors Fund Performances Jan. 17 The new Broadway musical Memphis offers a special performance to benefit the Actors Fund Jan. 17.

The 8 PM performance of the rock-and-gospel scored musical at the Shubert Theatre benefits the non-profit organization. Chad Kimball and Montego Glover co-star.

Memphis, according to press notes, "follows the fictionalized life story of Huey Calhoun, a young, white radio disc jockey growing up in Memphis in the 1950s. Fueled by the music he hears in the black bars on Beale Street, Huey's on-air antics and unstoppable enthusiasm for 'race records' creates a new white audience for African-American music. Then he falls in love with beautiful black singer Felicia Farrell, and his personal life transcends the race line, too, with grave consequences."

For tickets call (212) 221-7300, ext. 133, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.store.actorsfund.org.

The Actors Fund, which was founded in 1882, is a non-profit organization that provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals. Some of the many programs The Actors Fund provides include a nursing home and assisted living care facility; senior and disabled programs; mental health services; chemical dependency services; entertainment industry assistance programs; the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative; the AIDS Initiative; and supportive housing on both coasts.

For more information visit www.actorsfund.org.

 
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