From a Kitchen Table to Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre: Richard Weitz’s ‘RWQuarantunes’ Hits the Road to Raise $1.3M for Broadway Cares Chris Gardner Demi Weitz Richard Weitz
There were tears, Tony winners and a fundraising tally that topped $1.35 million on April 11 when Richard and Demi Weitz took their pandemic phenomenon “RWQuarantunes” to the East Coast for a special Broadway outing inside the New Amsterdam Theater.
Sunday’s fundraiser, a reteaming with Broadway Cares, delivered the duo’s fourth on location Zoom concert event following previous outings at the Hollywood Bowl, Ahmanson Theatre and Dodger Stadium. However, the timing of this one happened to coincide with the one-year anniversary of “RWQuarantunes” which made for a series of emotional moments as the father-daughter were able to reunite with stars and collaborators that have helped them power to more than $22 million raised spread across more than 40 organizations. And they
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Broadway Gives Back
A new podcast from Jan Friedlander Svedsen and the Broadway Podcast Network launches this month, focusing on the intersection of Broadway and philanthropy. Svedson hosts
The Broadway Gives Back Podcast with a bevy of Broadway activists and humanitarians on the guest list, including Judith Light, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Luis and Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS s Tom Viola and Danny Whitman with Gavin Creel, and Dan Pallotta of Pallotta TeamWorks. The podcast is available at BPN.fm or wherever you get your podcasts.
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