Date Set for 2018 Gender-Reversing Broadway Backwards Concert

Date Set for 2018 Gender-Reversing Broadway Backwards Concert

Benefits and Galas Date Set for 2018 Gender-Reversing Broadway Backwards Concert

Jan 18, 2018

The 13th annual benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the LGBT Center will be held at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

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The 13th annual Broadway Backwards concert—featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women and women singing tunes written for men—will be presented April 2 at 8 PM at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

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Performers will be announced in the coming weeks for the concert, which aims to shatter gender norms and celebrates love in all its forms.

Creator Robert Bartley will again direct with musical supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and musical direction by Laura Bergquist. Choreography will be created for the show by Bartley and Adam Roberts.

Broadway Backwards 13 is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and benefits Broadway Cares and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

Read: CYNTHIA ERIVO AS COALHOUSE, SANTINO FONTANA AS ELSA, AND MORE AT BROADWAY BACKWARDS 2017

In its 12 editions, Broadway Backwards has raised more than $3.4 million for Broadway Cares and The Center.

Click here for ticket information.