Broadway's In The Heights Parodies Les Miserables' "One Day More"
Published 2021-05-20
Thanks to the efforts of 53 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Touring companies, the 22nd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, presented at The Minskoff Theatre on Monday, April 28 and Tuesday, April 29 raised a record-breaking $3,734,129 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
The Easter Bonnet Competition is the culmination of six intensive weeks of fundraising efforts by Broadway and Off-Broadway company members, as well as numerous productions currently on national tour. Curtain speeches, autographed poster and program sales, auctions, and cabaret performances bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars from audiences prior to the competition. The winner of the competition is determined to be the company which raises the largest amount of money for BC/EFA. A second award is granted to the company with the best bonnet design and presentation. Awards are also presented to the Broadway Play, National Tour and Off-Broadway productions raising the most money for Broadway Cares.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org, at facebook.com/BCEFA, at instagram.com/BCEFA, at twitter.com/BCEFA and at youtube.com/BCEFA.
All Comments (21)
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Once In The Heights and Les Miserables met... ...and that's how Hamilton came to existance...
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Lin just screaming “WHAT” just makes me laugh so much
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Robin had no business sounding so good as Eponine.
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“I will wear a skirt so short, the first three rows can see my bUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTT” so touching 🤧🤧
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I can’t believe it took me this long to realize that Hamilton is basically Les Mis meets In The Hights meets 1776.
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Who else has been blessed by the YouTube algorithm? WEPA!!!
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When LMM appeared on Carpool Karaoke in 2016 with Audra McDonald and a few others, he kept screaming “What” when the group sang “One Day More” at the end of the segment, and I remember wondering at the time why he was doing that. Now it all makes sense.
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- Marvel: Infinity War Is The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History - Lin: Hold my piragua…
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This is the most Lin-Manuel Miranda thing ever
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The cast: Sings in harmonies Lin: WHAT???
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1:38 “I’m impossibly attractive with dumps like a truck and thighs like what” 😂😂 absolute lege
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Lin-Manuel screaming "WHAT" on the off-beat in classic Broadway songs is one of the greatest joys in life.
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LIVING for 23 latinos in a broadway show 😭💖
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Eponine's belting omg how can he sound so good?? And also genderbend Javert XD
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This is the absolute most chaotic thing I’ve ever witnessed
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I love Sonny being Eponine. RIP the plotline with Sonny and Graffiti Pete being together.
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and that was how the concept of hamilton was born
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Young Christopher Jackson is making me feel some typa way...
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I don’t think I’ll ever be able to hear that last verse without hearing LMM’s “WHAT?!”
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Excuse me, can we all stop for a minute to appreciate how freakin' amazing Robin's high notes are here? <3
