Don’t Miss: 3 Broadway-Inspired Pride Events

‘Tis the season to break out all things rainbow colored and celebrate the LGBT community. Pride events abound throughout the country, but Broadway stars are gathering for two not-to-be-missed events. Mark your calendars!

Broadway Sings For Pride
Enjoy chorus-led renditions of your favorite Pop music & Broadway hits, inspirational stories from featured celebrity advocates of LGBT rights, and a cocktail reception to network with affluent members of the NYC-metro area LGBT community.

The “Broadway Sings for Pride” 6th annual Celebrity Gay Pride Charity Concert – Ovation – has an incredible list of confirmed guest speakers and performing artists.

Join hosts Lesli Margherita (Olivier Award Winner, Matilda the Musical and Dames at Sea on Broadway) and Tommy Didario (Lifestyle Writer, Advocate & Entrepreneur). Confirmed guest speakers and performing artists include:

BEBE NEUWIRTH (Emmy and 2-time Tony award winner, Madam Secretary)
SUZE ORMAN (television host, internationally acclaimed personal finance expert)
HENRY KRIEGER (Grammy-award winning composer, Tony and Academy Award nominee, Dreamgirls)
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ (First Latina Supermodel, Showtimes The L Word, Social Entrepreneur Wayuu Taya)
BROCK CIARLELLI (ABCs The Middle)
KIMBERLEY LOCKE (Pop Star, American Idol, Television host)
NATHAN LEE GRAHAM (Zoolander, Broadway’s Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
CHRISTIANE NOLL (Tony nominee, Broadway’s Ragtime & Jekyll & Hyde)
DANIEL QUADRINO (Broadway’s Newsies & Wicked)
EDEN ESPINOSA (Broadway’s Wicked and Rent)
N’KENGE (Original Broadway Casts of Motown the Musical, Sondheim on Sondheim)
CODY SCOTT LANCASTER (Broadway’s Rock of Ages)
ADAM B. SHAPIRO (HBO Film’s The Normal Heart, Netflix Master of None)
VALERIE SMALDONE (5-time Billboard Magazine Award-winner, Radio personality)
DANIEL DROMM (New York City Council Member & LGBT Caucus Member)TODD BUONOPANE (Broadway’s Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella)

June 20
The JCC Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th Street)
8 p.m.
$30-$80

Tune in Time
The York Theatre Company celebrates Pride Month with the June installment of the game show for musical theater lovers, Tune in Time, presented by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, hosted by Emily McNamara, with Musical Director Nate Buccieri and annoyingly insistent timekeeper Sheila Head, and featuring celebrity guest judges drag performers Marti Gould Cummings, Judy Darling and Brita Filter.

The June line-up of songwriters includes returning Tune in Time champion James Harvey (The Crack in the Ceiling), who will be joined by Rebekah M. Allen (We Are the Tigers), Jamie Cowperthwait (I’m Fine With This (If You Are)), Russell Kaplan (In Transit), and the team of Jonathon Lynch and Danielle Trzcinski (SLAM! A Graffiti Musical), who will be split up for the evening.

In this “Musical Theater Olympics,” three teams of composers and lyricists who have never worked together are forced to collaborate – and to beat the clock. Their task? They must write a song for a new Broadway musical, the title of which is picked from a hatful of audience suggestions – and in a style determined by a spin of the dreaded Genre Wheel – all within 20 minutes! Tune in Time is an evening of edge-of-your-seat suspense, brain-frying bravery, and musical theatre magnificence. Each edition of Tune in Time features a different roster of musical theater composers and lyricists as well as a panel of celebrity judges.

June 20
York Theatre Company
Saint Peter’s (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th STreet, east of Lexington Ave.)
7:30 p.m.

$20

Michael Longoria (Photo: Dayane Ohira via The Broadway Blog.)

Songs for New Alternatives
Presented by Michael Longoria with Special Co-Host Ashley Austin Morris
Broadway singer/actor Michael Longoria, along with Taylor James of 42West PR and Kristina Bramhall from Telsey + Company, are putting together a benefit concert for “New Alternatives”, an organization that helps homeless LGBT youth (16-24) become self-sufficient and transition out of the shelter system and into stable adult lives. Their services include case management, education services, life skills training, community-building recreational opportunities for self-expression and support services for HIV+ youth. The benefit is also a celebration of Pride kick off!

In addition to Longoria and Morris, featured performers and guests include Constantine Maroulis, Diana DeGarmo, Daniel Reichard, Marty Thomas, Christina Bianco, Tori Scott, Ryan Raftery, Willito Rivera, Matthew Gagnon, Felicia Finley, Alexa Green, Ashanti J’aria, Danny Longoria, Tim Young, Jennifer Malenke, Michelle Dowdy, Cameron Mitchell Bell, Jennifer Bishop, Matthew Roscoe, Jenna Miller, Kristina Nicole Miller, Marissa Pontecorvo and Andrea Nardello.

June 23
Hardware
697 10th Avenue, NYC
9 p.m.
$10 suggested donation