Hot New Trends In The Entertainment World: 2010 Annual Gala: Creative Alternatives Of New York 'Broadway At The Boathouse...Encore' on May 17 from 6:30 pm

Cady Huffman and Dick Latessa will be hosting the gala, with special performances from Kristin Chenoweth, Katie Finneran, and Sean Hayes. The guest list will also include Glee's Matthew Morrison.
Promises, Promises co-stars Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Hayes, and Katie Finneran performed at the Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) benefit, Broadway at the Boathouse...Encore, which was held at the Central Park Boathouse on Monday, May 17.
Tony Award winner Cady Huffman co-hosted the event with another Promises, Promises star, Dick Latessa. Broadway veteran and Glee star Matthew Morrison and Billy Elliot's Gregory Jbara also made appearances.
The event honored Dr. Sandra Bloom, creator of the Sanctuary Model of trauma informed care and the Co-Director of the Center for Non-Violence & Social Justice at Drexel University.
The benefit raised funds for CANY, which helps children and adults across the New York Metropolitan area whose lives have been fragmented by trauma and mental health challenges by using the art of theater as a therapeutic tool.
For more information, visit www.cany.org.

(L-R) Katie Finneran, Suzzanne Douglas , Cady Huffman & Dick Latessa by Anna Kuchma

Tony Award-Winner Dick Latessa, and Chairman of the Board, brought together Broadway stars to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) which uses theatre to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults. This year's annual gala, Broadway at the Boathouse...Encore, was held at the Loeb Central Park Boathouse yesterday evening, May 17, 2010. The honoree was Dr. Sandra Bloom, creator of the Sanctuary Model® of trauma informed care and the Co-Director of the Center for Non-Violence & Social Justice at Drexel University.

Festivities began at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails, buffet dinner, silent auction, and gondola boat rides. The program included musical performances by Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, Katie Finneran and Cady Huffman. Special guest Matthew Morrison also joined the festivities.
For over 25 years, Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) has been helping children and adults across the New York Metropolitan area whose lives have been fragmented by trauma and mental health challenges by using the art of theatre as a therapeutic tool - helping them to imagine and envision new possibilities and discover their potential for change. Working in partnership with leading social service organizations and health care institutions, CANY provides approximately 1,400 therapeutic theater groups annually in residential centers for children, special schools, psychiatric care facilities, domestic violence safe shelters and community centers serving at risk youth.

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