Deborah Cox Leads ‘Broadway in South Africa’ Concert Tonight

R&B vocalist Deborah Cox, formerly the lead in Broadway’s Aida, will take the reins and ride for tonight’s Broadway in South Africa: The Concert presentation, which will play for one night only at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in Manhattan. The concert is comprised of original songs that are based on stories written by students in Cape Town, South Africa who partook in the four-day Broadway in South Africa program last January. Aside from Cox, other performers of tonight’s big event include Uzo Aduba, Shoshana Bean, Sean Bradford, Lilli Cooper, Darius de Haas, Daquan Thompson, Frankie James Grande, Adam Kantor, Chelsea Krombach, Tracy McDowell, Selloane Nkhela, Tommy Scrivens, Kate Shindle and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson.

Tonight’s Broadway in South Africa: The Concert event will also include a performance of the South Africa cast of Broadway’s The Lion King, and presenters for tonight’s concert will include John MacMillan, Mark Rayment, Amra-Faye Wright and Nyasha Zimucha. The benefit concert goes to aid the Broadway in South Africa program and will fund this January’s South Africa trip. According to the official press release, the concert’s aim is to “develop cross cultural exchanges between youth in need and professional artists who seek to use their talents for change, by way of annual workshop/performance initiatives in South Africa.”

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Posted in General on October 5, 2009

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