Dear friends of the Fund,

We hope your new year is off to a wonderful start. We're really excited to kick off 2024 with a chance to share the true story behind an exciting new musical, accompanied by the creative team involved! Plus, this year is only a few days old, but is already shaping up to be an exciting one for live theater, where your ticket purchase can go toward supporting our programs and services.

Thank you for your continued support of a life in the arts. Enjoy our upcoming events, and we hope to see you soon.

How To Dance In Ohio Documentary Film
Monday, January 8, 7 pm ET

Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY, 10570

Experience the documentary that inspired this season’s new Broadway musical, How To Dance in Ohio, then join Jacob Yandura, the musical’s composer, as well as Ben Holtzman, the musical’s producer and filmmaker Alexandra Shiva for a conversation with Broadway producer and JBFC Board member Dori Berinstein. Winner of the 2015 Peabody Award for Documentary Film, How to Dance in Ohio is a story of the universal human need to grow, connect and belong as uniquely dramatized by individuals facing the deepest struggle toward social survival. This event is presented in partnership with the Entertainment Community Fund.

Use promo code PROMQUEEN to get $5 off per ticket on up to two (2) tickets per order. Click on the event’s 7 pm show time, enter promo code PROMQUEEN in the promo code box at the top right of the screen, and click “submit” before selecting your ticket(s). Your discount will be reflected on the checkout page.

Harmony Producer’s Picks
Tuesday, January 23, 7 pm ET

Ethel Barrymore Theatre
243 West 47th Street
New York, NY

See top-notch theater and feel good about helping others! Producer’s Picks tickets are donated by the producers so your entire ticket purchase goes to support the Entertainment Community Fund’s programs and services.

Six remarkably talented young men form a singing group and become international sensations: The Comedian Harmonists. They sell millions of records, star in major motion pictures and play the biggest theaters around the world. By 1935, they were never heard from again. What happened? That’s the extraordinary true story of Harmony. Harmony features an original score by Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Barry Manilow with lyrics and book by longtime collaborator and Drama Desk Award winner Bruce Sussman. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle (The Music Man, Hello Dolly!), this timely and captivating rags-to-riches story lost to history comes to dazzling life with a sensational cast of Broadway favorites, including Sierra Boggess (The Phantom of the Opera), Julie Benko (Funny Girl) and Chip Zien (Into the Woods).

Merrily We Roll Along Producer’s Picks
Wednesday, January 31, 7 pm ET
Wednesday, February 7, 7 pm ET
Tuesday, February 13, 7 pm ET
Wednesday, February 21, 7 pm ET

Hudson Theatre
141 West 44th Street
New York, NY

Following sold-out runs in London and at the New York Theatre Workshop, Merrily We Roll Along is back on Broadway with Maria Friedman’s widely acclaimed production. Featuring one of Stephen Sondheim's most celebrated and personal scores, Merrily charts the turbulent relationship between three lifelong friends–played by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez–and traces every milestone of their lives for nearly two decades as they navigate success, show business and unbreakable bonds.

More Fundraisers:
Stars In The House: Watch musical performances, behind the scenes stories and more with Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley
PlumbGoods: PlumbGoods has a variety of items to choose from with 5% of all net sales (excluding Happiness Included Coffee Collection) benefiting the Fund.
Laughs, Luck… and Lucy: Gregg Oppenheimer has generously pledged all proceeds from his new audiobook, Laughs, Luck…and Lucy, co-authored with his father, I Love Lucy creator Gregg Oppenheimer to the Entertainment Community Fund
Plenty of Paul: 20% of proceeds from select merchandise will be donated to the Fund in support of film and television workers
T-shirts on Bonfire: 100% of the sales from this graphic t-shirt will be donated to the Entertainment Community Fund. With special thanks to The Old Guard comic series co-creators, Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández, who is the illustrator of the series and created the image on the t-shirt
Moonees: Professional Artist & Background Casting Director Jason D’Aquino has pledged $5 to the Entertainment Community Fund from every Moonees product sold to support film and television workers affected by work stoppages or other pauses in industry work