Broadway is coming to Santa Monica.
Jenna Ushkowitz (“Glee”) and Merle Dandridge (“The Final of Us,” “Station 19”) are teaming up and gathering their singer mates to lift cash for Harvest House L.A., a non-profit for unhoused pregnant ladies.
“Jenna, Merle, and Mates: A Evening of Track” will characteristic pop and Broadway tunes carried out by Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Trendy Household”), Cheyenne Jackson (“American Horror Story”), Katie Lowes (“Scandal”), Kevin McHale (“Glee”), Austin Mackenzie (“Spring Awakening”), Adam Shapiro (“By no means Have I Ever”), Tracie Thoms (“9-1-1”), Carly Thomas Smith (“Lease”) and Kim Dawson (“Sing Off”).
The night takes place on April 21 at The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
“As a brand new mom, I felt compelled to help and serve different moms in want inside my local people,” Ushkowitz mentioned in assertion Thursday. “Some fantastic mates, who’re additionally mothers, launched me to Harvest House. The group’s mission and devoted work resonated deeply with me. And I really feel privileged to contribute a small half within the work they do.”
Dandridge added, “The ladies at Harvest House are a relentless inspiration. The braveness, the spirit, and the enjoyment that erupts whereas embarking on motherhood through the hardest of circumstances…nicely, it places the big heart-capacity and ferocious fireplace of being a girl on full show.”
Musical course might be by Seth Rudetsky (Catastrophe! The Musical) and James Wesley (Stars within the Home), with staging by Lee Martino (Les Women). “Jenna, Merle and Mates” is being hosted in partnership with Rudetsky and Wesley’s Your Children, Our Children group.
Since launching in 1985, Harvest House has supplied housing and help to greater than 650 households, reworking the lives of unhoused pregnant ladies and their youngsters by way of packages designed to empower and equip residents through the important durations of being pregnant, supply, and postpartum bonding.
“We’re so grateful to Jenna and Merle for coming along with their mates to amplify the expertise of unhoused pregnant moms who’re working to finish generational homelessness for his or her households,” Harvest House govt director Sarah Wilson mentioned. “This occasion is not going to simply increase consciousness and funds, however honors succesful and resilient ladies who’re too typically marginalized.”
Pre-sale tickets are presently obtainable for buy with normal ticket gross sales beginning Feb. 19. Go to www.harvesthomela.org/benefitconcert.
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