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'Give My Regards to Broadway' Coming to Bickford Theatre

Porgy and Bess' Boykin headlines Starry NJ Benefit.

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Tony and Grammy Award-nominee Phillip Boykin joins a slew of stars to salute a Century of Broadway Showstoppers in Give My Regards to Broadway! on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 pm, at the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre, 6 Normandy Heights Road, in Morristown.

This annual Bickford Theatre Guild fundraiser salutes the last 100 years on the Great White Way with show-stopping selections from such classic Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Mame, West Side Story, Gypsy, Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, Annie Get Your Gun, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys, Cinderella and many more. Audiences can expect over twenty hits including Mr. Boykin’s renditions of the classics, “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin” and “Ol’ Man River.”

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Phillip Boykin most-recently starred on Broadway opposite five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. He will be joined by numerous Broadway and national touring stars including Ron Bohmer (Ragtime and A Little Night Music), Gary Mauer (Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera),Elizabeth Southard (The Phantom of the Opera), Julie Waldman-Stiel (The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber),and returning Bickford Theatre favorites including Gwendolyn F. Jones (Mother Superior in Nunsense), Kristen Michelle (Sister Amnesia in Nunsense), Scott McGowan (Mack Sennett in Mack & Mabel), Daniel Vissers (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change), Susan Speidel (The Best of Times), Mark Montague and Jennifer Montague(Some Enchanted Evening). Special Guest performers include Rasha Jay and Tracey Turner Turano, who also provides musical staging. Peter Candela (Disney’s The Lion King) serves as Music Director.

Give My Regards to Broadway! is written, directed and produced by Stephen Kantrowitz and Jodi Chekofsky, who return to helm the Bickford Theatre Guild fundraiser for the fifth consecutive year. 

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Tickets for Give My Regards to Broadway! are $250 per person for the “Celebrity VIP Package” which includes Show, Priority Seating, Program Book Listing, Autographed CD, Private Mingle-with-the-Stars Meet & Greet, and Post Show Cocktail Reception. $125 per person tickets include Show and Post Show Cocktail Reception. Limited Show Only tickets are also available for $65 each. Tickets may be purchased by phone at 973.971.3706 or in person at the Bickford Theatre Box Office. Hours for phone sales are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk-up hours are Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Bickford Theatre is conveniently located within the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ, and offers free parking and full accessibility. For more information, visit the museum's website.


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