December 14, 2010, 1:00 pm Ebb Foundation Donates $1 Million to Broadway Cares
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
The Fred Ebb Foundation has given Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS a gift of $1 million, the largest donation in the organization’s history. The contribution is to be announced on Tuesday.
The foundation, established after the death of the Tony Award-winning lyricist in 2004, has given money annually to Broadway Cares, a New York-based nonprofit HIV/AIDS grant-making organization that is perhaps best known for producing benefits by and for the Broadway community, including the striptease-centered Broadway Bares.
Ebb collaborated with the composer John Kander on several Tony Award-winning musicals, including “Cabaret,” “Chicago” and “Kiss of the Spiderwoman.” One of the duo’s last works, the musical “The Scottsboro Boys,” closed on Broadway on Sunday.
Mitchell Bernard, the foundation’s trustee and a nephew of Ebb’s, said in a phone interview that consistent with his uncle’s wishes, no restrictions were placed on the money.
“He focused his efforts and life in the New York theater community, and the people at Broadway Cares know that,” he said. “We’re interested in the funds being used to help actors, writers, designers and other people in the theater who need assistance for medical or other reasons.”
Last week’s Gypsy of the Year competition, an annual event produced by Broadway Cares, raised over $3.7 million.
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