'Fun Home' Plays One-Night Benefit Concert for Orlando Victims

On Sunday, July 24, "Fun Home," the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning Best Musical, will play a one-night-only benefit concert performance at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando. This performance will be a concert version of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical to raise money for Equality Florida and the LGBTQ community of Orlando.
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All nine of the show's onstage company members, including Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris, four-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn, 2015 Tony Award nominees Beth Malone, and Emily Skeggs, Gabriella Pizzolo, Roberta Colindrez, Cole Grey, Zell Steele Morrow, and Joel Perez, along with the show's Tony Award-winning creators Lisa Kron (Book & Lyrics), Jeanine Tesori (Music) and Sam Gold (Direction) will be in attendance.
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"Fun Home has always felt like something much bigger than just a show, and our company has connected and engaged with our audiences and our community in deeply active ways," said Cerveris. "Our show is a celebration of choosing to live one's life fearlessly and truthfully. I wanted us to take all the great gifts we have been given in the life of this show and place them in the service of a community that may be far beyond the lights of Broadway, but very close to our hearts."
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A hundred percent of the net proceeds of this benefit performance will support the future work of Equality Florida, and the victims of the horrific Pulse shooting. Half of the money raised will be distributed directly to victims and their families, and half will support Equality Florida's work to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

"When Michael brought this idea to us, we immediately sprang into action," producers Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson and Barbara Whitman said in a statement. "As the first musical with a lesbian protagonist, we so often hear from audience members at 'Fun Home' that it was the first time they saw themselves represented on a Broadway stage. We all feel so helpless, but hopefully this will allow us to give back to the LGBT community in this tiny way."

"Fun Home" is able to fly down to Orlando for this benefit performance thanks to the generosity of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the producers and co-producers of "Fun Home," and the Wyndham Orlando.