Jonathan Groff, Seth Rudetsky, Jessie Mueller Among Stars Raising Awareness for Foster Kids

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Your Kids, Our Kids (Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, Founding Directors) proudly presents the 3rd Annual "Voices for the Voiceless: Stars For Foster Kids," an event that brings together the very best performers from the American stage and screen to raise awareness about the plight of kids in foster care, particularly those aged 13 and older who are in danger of aging out of the foster care system alone.

Combining celebrity, music, and everyday people sharing their incredible stories, "Voices for the Voiceless: Stars For Foster Kids" directly benefits You Gotta Believe, a New York nonprofit specializing in finding permanent families for older kids in foster care. Hosted by Sirius XM Radio host (and Your Kids, Our Kids co-founder) Seth Rudetsky ("Disaster!") and James Wesley ("Unbroken Circle"), this year's concert line-up will feature Tony Award-winner Jessie Mueller ("Waitress," "Beautiful"), two-time Tony-nominee Jonathan Groff ("Hamilton"), Grammy Award-winner Stephanie Mills ("The Wiz"), Capathia Jenkins ("Newsies"),Willie Garson ("Sex and the City"), comedienne Caroline Rhea, Melissa Gilbert ("Little House on the Prairie"), Charlene Tilton ("Dallas"), WNBC's Janice Huff and more TBA. VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS: Stars For Foster Kids will take place at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street, NYC) on Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:00pm.

Tickets for THE VOICELESS: Stars For Foster Kids, price at $25, $75 and $150, are now available online HEREyougottabelieve.org/2017-voices-for-the-voiceless, or by calling Ticket Master at 800-982-2787, or in-person at The Town Hall at 123 West 43rd Street (12pm - 6pm Monday-Saturday).

YOUR KIDS, OUR KIDS. After years of volunteering and performing for a myriad of non-profit organizations, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Actors Fund of America, and Hearts and Voices, husbands Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley decided to form their own 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 2015. Your Kids, Our Kids was born, its initial mission to directly help one of the most vulnerable populations in our society -- children -- through creative means. VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS was their organization's first project. Over the following year, it became clear to James and Seth that the number of people at risk in the United States had increased greatly, and that need to support non-profits was more important than ever, so they expanded their organization's scope with a desire to benefit a wide array of non-profit organizations serving a diverse audience but all having a similar focus: fighting for civil and human rights for all Americans. They organized Broadway for Orlando in the wake of the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in June of 2016. Uniting the Broadway community to sing "What the World Needs Now is Love" (in the style of "We Are the World"), the single charted on Billboard's Hot 100 and to date has sold over 50,000 copies, raising over $100,000 for the Orlando LGBT community. The following month, they presented From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert for Orlando, with proceeds going to the LGBT Community Center of Central Florida, Hope and Help Center of Central Florida and Zebra Coalition. On January 20, 2017, they presented the first edition of Concert for America: Stand Up, Sing Out!, which premiered at The Town Hall in NYC, with the intent to raise money and awareness for civil rights organizations, as well as infuse Americans with hope and inspiration and the desire to become more active citizens. To date, there have been eight editions performed around the country, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Atlanta. James and Seth are the proud recipients of the 2016 National Leadership Award from the LGBTQ Task Force for their work on Broadway for Orlando's "What the World Needs Now is Love."

Visit You Gotta Believe online: www.YouGottaBelieve.org


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