Post by HQ75 on Mar 4, 2012 0:26:54 GMT -5
Please spread the word to get others to tune in right now for our historic performance of 8 in Los Angeles tonight to benefit AFER.
ABOUT THE PLAY
www.8theplay.com/
LOS ANGELES CAST
ABOUT THE PLAY
www.8theplay.com/
On September 19, 2011, a new play called “8″ by Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) premiered on Broadway in an exclusive reading to benefit American Foundation for Equal Rights. The play, which chronicles the federal marriage equality trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now called Perry v. Brown), was directed by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out) and featured an all-star cast including: Morgan Freeman, John Lithgow, Bradley Whitford, Christine Lahti, Ellen Barkin, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Rob Reiner, Bob Balaban, Jane Houdyshell, Yeardley Smith, Anthony Edwards, Campbell Brown, Rory O’Malley, Larry Kramer, Stephen Spinella, K. Todd Freeman, Ken Leung, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Ben Rosenfeld and Kate Shindle.
The evening played to a sold-out house of over 1,100 and raised over $1 million to fund the federal lawsuit for marriage equality.
LOS ANGELES CAST
Top row, from left: Jansen Panettiere, Bridger Zadina, Jane Lynch, Vanessa Garcia, James Pickens Jr., Yeardley Smith, writer Dustin Lance Black, director Rob Reiner, and actor Rory O’Malley; Bottom row, from left: Cleve Jones, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Chris Colfer, Christine Lahti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Matthew Morrison, Campbell Brown, and George Takei onstage during rehearsal for 8, presented by The American Foundation For Equal Rights & Broadway Impact, on Saturday in Los Angeles. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
