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CINDY KREE AND JONATHAN BIRIN

PHOTOGRAPH: CINDY KREE

Performances included the “Honey” Acapella Girl Group; Lindiwe Bungane (winner of a Naledi Award for Dreamgirls), Carly Graeme from We Will Rock You and Starlight Express, Sivan Raphaely from Rent and We Will Rock You; Sharon Speigel-Wagner from Grease and The Rocky Horror Show; Naami Gottlieb Lieberman, composer and arranger for From the Mouths of Babes; Lorri Strauss (of High School Musical, Spotlight SA, MNet’s Backstage and The Rocky Horror Show);Vicky Friedman, from Chicago, Hairspray and Thoroughly Modern Millie; Grease’s Natasha Millar; and Naledi Award winner Harry Sideropoulos who presented 94.7’s Rude Awakening and participated in Hairspray, Big Band Blast, and No Sugar – Canderel Please.  

Proceeds of this event went to the various projects of the UJW Johannesburg which serve both the Jewish and broader communities.