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BROADWAY UNPLUGGED AT THE FORD TO BENEFIT VALLEY MUSICAL THEATRE

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Ronn Goswick, Executive Producer of The Valley Musical Theatre (now in its second season of operation), announced today that co-stars of Stephen Schwartz's hit Broadway and Los Angeles companies of Wicked including Eden Espinosa, Kristoffer Cusick, Shoshana Bean, Jenna Leigh Green, Julie Reiber, Emily Rozek, Adam Lambert, Melissa Fahn and Linda Kerns, will join Broadway friends Sean McDermott, Jack Noseworthy, Chad Kimball and many more for a unique, "acoustic", up-close and personal production, BROADWAY UNPLUGGED AT THE FORD on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm at the outdoor JOHN ANSON FORD AMPHITHEATRE (2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Los Angeles, CA - 323-461-3673 - http://www.fordtheatres.org/ ), one of Los Angeles' oldest performing arts venues. Los Angeles Ovation Award winner Gerald Sternbach serves as Musical Director.

Broadway Unplugged at The Ford serves as a Benefit for the Valley Musical Theatre's programming and educational work program with the Los Angeles Unified School District to present the arts to their schools by bringing students to the theatre for a "free" performance of shows on the Valley Musical Theatre's schedule.

Tickets are priced at $30, $50 and $100. Special $100 tickets which includes a post show reception with the cast, producers and staff can be purchased by calling 818-768-7974.

The Valley Musical Theatre (VMT) began its inaugural 2006 season at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA with the launch of two February (introductory) benefit performances of Fractured Broadway which featured over 40 performers including Sam Harris, Bruce Vilanch, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Henry Polic II, Kirsten Benton Chandler, Stan Chandler, Vicki Lewis, Nita Whitaker, Kevin Earley and Bets Malone. All of the performers represented VMT's high standard of excellence by presenting the best of Broadway Musical Theatre stars that could or would be seen in future VMT productions.

The VMT has since presented The Leading Ladies with Karen Culliver, Mary D'Arcy and Teri Bibb; Hear My Soul - An Evening with Valerie Pettiford; Four in the Afternoon starring David Engel, Damon Kirsche, Elizabeth Ward Land and Christina Saffran Ashford; The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award-winning production of Beehive - The 60's Musical with LaToya London (of American Idol fame) Stacy Francis, Kathleen Hennessey, Tricia Kelly, Sylvia MacCalla and Lesli Margherita; Nuncrackers, The Nunsense Christmas Musical starring Sally Struthers with Adrian Zmed and the west coast revival of They're Playing Our Song starring Vicki Lewis and Scott Waara.

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