Broadway Cast Serves Meals at God's Love We Deliver

Winnie McCroy READ TIME: 2 MIN.

To carry over the holiday spirit into the new year, on Tuesday, January 20, cast members from the Pulitzer Prize-winning revival by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman "You Can't Take It With You" will be volunteering their time and working as a group at God's Love We Deliver. The cast will be helping prepare meals in the kitchen on for a three-hour afternoon shift. ??

With over 26,000 meals delivered each week, the kitchen staff relies on volunteers to help prepare these meals for over 2,600 clients. Some of the tasks that the "You Can't Take It With You" cast may be doing include chopping onions, wrapping rolls, peeling potatoes and making meatballs.

"You Can't Take It With You" recently welcomed Emmy Award-nominated TV and film star Anna Chlumsky ("Veep", "My Girl") and Emmy Award-winning screen and stage star Richard Thomas ("The Waltons," "The Americans," "Race") who took over the roles of Alice Sycamore and Paul Sycamore, respectively on Tuesday, January 6. The production is directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis.

While Chlumsky is making her Broadway debut in this role, Richard Thomas is reuniting with James Earl Jones who last appeared on stage together in their Broadway debuts in 1958's "Sunrise at Campobello" when Thomas was seven.?? "You Can't Take It With You" opened on Sunday, September 28, 2014 at the Longacre Theatre at 220 West 48th Street) and extended its initial limited run to Sunday, February 22.

God's Love We Deliver is the New York City metropolitan area's leading provider of nutritious, individually-tailored meals to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Founded in 1985 when one woman began delivering food on her bicycle to a man dying from AIDS, God's Love now cooks 5,000 meals each weekday, delivering them to clients living with life-altering illnesses in all five boroughs of New York City, Newark and Hudson County, New Jersey.

"All of our services are provided free of charge to our clients, their children and to the senior caregivers of our senior clients, without regard to income, and we have never maintained a waiting list. Because we believe the combination of hunger and serious illness is a crisis, we deliver food within 24-48 hours of first being contacted."

For those interested in seeing the show, call 212-239-6200 or visit Telecharge.com. For more information about God's Love We Deliver, visit www.glwd.org


by Winnie McCroy , EDGE Editor

Winnie McCroy is the Women on the EDGE Editor, HIV/Health Editor, and Assistant Entertainment Editor for EDGE Media Network, handling all women's news, HIV health stories and theater reviews throughout the U.S. She has contributed to other publications, including The Village Voice, Gay City News, Chelsea Now and The Advocate, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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