NewsPHOTO CALL: Caissie Levy, Emily Padgett, Andy Mientus and Lauren Pritchard Sing at A Better HolidayA Better Holiday, a concert benefitting the It Gets Better Project — an organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth — was held Dec. 7 at Joe's Pub.
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Krissie Fullerton
December 09, 2014
Performers included Janina Gavankar ("True Blood," "The L Word," "Mysteries of Laura"), Colin Hanlon ("Modern Family," "Submissions Only," Wicked), Max Jenkins ("Mysteries of Laura," "High Maintenance"), Caissie Levy (Les Misérables, Hair, Ghost), Andy Mientus (Les Misérables, "Smash," "The Flash"), Emily Padgett (Side Show), Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening), Ryann Redmond (If/Then, Bring It On), David Reiser (Walker in Babylon), Dee Roscioli (Wicked, Circus in Winter) and Heléne Yorke (Bullets Over Broadway, "Masters of Sex," "High Maintenance").
Miss J Alexander hosted the 7 PM event, which featured music direction by Dana Haynes.
Here's a look at the concert:
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Caissie Levy, Emily Padgett, Andy Mientus and Lauren Pritchard Sing at A Better Holiday
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.