LEADING LADIES BELT FOR A CAUSE AT CHRIS' BIRTHDAY BELT-FEST
Angela Ingersoll is once again among the stunning line-up of Chicago leading ladies lending their voices to the extraordinary cause of Chris' Birthday Belt-fest. Jeff Award-winner and HIV+ director/producer Christopher Pazdernik returns with his benefit concert for Howard Brown Health on Monday, May 16, 8:00 PM at Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway, Chicago.
Pazdernik created this extraordinary showcase as a way to give back to Howard Brown Health, where he has received his medical care since being diagnosed HIV+ in 2009. Once again, leading ladies from every theater in town, including numerous Jeff Award winners and nominees, will join together to belt for a cause! Currently scheduled to perform are Missy Aguilar (Porchlight Revisits City of Angels), Charissa Armon (Porchlight's Ragtime), Neala Barron (Hypocrite's Adding Machine), Elya Bottiger (Porchlight Revisits Applause), Lillian Castillo (Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Ride the Cyclone), Liz Chidester (Refuge Theatre Project's High Fidelity), Broadway veteran Katherine Condit (original cast, Chess), Kyrie Courter (Porchlight's Dreamgirls), Candace Edwards (Porchlight's Dreamgirls), Landree Fleming (American Theatre Company's Xanadu), Kristen Freilich (Second City's Jewsical!), Veronica Garza (Kokandy's Heathers), Britain Gebhart (Refuge Theatre Project's High Fidelity), Sophie Grimm (Paramount's Les Miserables), Sarah Hayes (Mercury Theatre's Addams Family), Amanda Horvath (Porchlight's Far From Heaven), Angela Ingersoll (Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow), Callie Johnson (Drury Lane's Next to Normal), Jessica Kingsdale (Paramount's Grease), Donica Lynn (Porchlight's Dreamgirls), Emilie Lynn (world tour, Phantom of the Opera), Courtney Mack (Kokandy's Heathers), Hillary Marren (Paramount's Tommy), Samantha Pauly (Marriott's Evita), Lauren Paris (Underscore's The Story of a Story), Camille Robinson (American Blues Theatre's Little Shop of Horrors), Laura Savage (Paramount's 42nd Street), Colette Todd (Theatre at the Center's Big Fish), Janelle Villas (Porchlight Revisits Applause), and Wisconsin actress Amanda Petersen Fails, one of Christopher's life-long best friends. (Line-up subject to change.)
Founded in 1974, Howard Brown Health is one of the nation's largest health care and research organizations, primarily serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) community and its allies. It is the largest such organization in the Midwest and serves adults youth and children throughout the region. An innovative and patient-centered health home, Howard Brown provides primary medical care, behavioral health services, and specialty chronic and infectious disease services, and conducts nationally-renowned clinical and behavioral research.