‘From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook’ Video Interviews and Highlights

The cast and crew of 'From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook' on January 28, 2013 in Westbury, CT.
The cast of ‘From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook’ on January 28, 2013 in Waterbury, CT.

It was a day and night I will never forget. I was so honored to be in Waterbury, CT on Monday, January 28th at From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook and to meet the families of the 20 children who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.

The best way I could capture the emotions of the benefit concert and the love that filled The Palace Theatre in Waterbury, CT on Monday, January 28th is to offer you this short video and a chance for you to view the beautiful pictures taken by Grace Rainer Long Photography. They tell the story better than I ever could.

The video features highlights from interviews I conducted with Richard Kind, Christine Ebersole, cast members from Million Dollar Quartet, Producers Van Dean and Brett Boles, Michael Cerveris, Frank Wildhorn, Brooke Tansley, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nikki Blonsky, and Marc Shaiman, and some press clips from the show.

Interviewing Marc Shaiman.
Interviewing Marc Shaiman.
Interviewing Producer Van Dean.
Interviewing Producer Van Dean.
Interviewing Frank Wildhorn.
Interviewing Frank Wildhorn.
Interviewing Michael Cerveris.
Interviewing Michael Cerveris.
Interviewing Richard Kind and Christine Ebersole.
Interviewing Richard Kind and Christine Ebersole.

Thank you to Evolution Industries for creating the video and for spending several hours videotaping my interviews with Broadway’s Best who volunteered to perform in From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy HookAnd special thanks to my brother Saul who invited me to work with him at this heartfelt event.

Saul Markowitz,Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) and me.

Saul Markowitz, Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) and Joel Markowitz.

LINKS

Photos of From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook by Grace Rainer Long Photography.

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook facebook page.

List of performers, directors, designers, and sponsors of From Broadway With Love: a Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook.

Purchase the DVD of From Broadway with Love.

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Joel Markowitz
Joel Markowitz is the Publisher and Editor of DCMetroTheaterArts. He founded the site with his brother Bruce to help promote the vast riches of theatre and the arts in the DC Metro area that includes Maryland, Virginia, and DC theater and music venues, universities, schools, Children's theaters, professional, and community theatres. Joel is an advocate for promoting the 'stars of the future' in his popular 'Scene Stealers' articles. He wrote a column for 5 years called ‘Theatre Schmooze’ and recorded podcast interviews for DC Theatre Scene. His work can also be seen and read on BroadwayStars. Joel also wrote a monthly preview of what was about to open in DC area theatres for BroadwayWorld. He is an avid film and theater goer, and a suffering Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan. Joel was a regular guest on 'The Lunch and Judy Show' radio program starring Judy Stadt in NYC. Joel founded The Ushers Theatre Going Group in the DC area in 1990, which had a 25-year run when it took its final curtain call last year. Joel is a proud member of The American Critics Association.