2008 performance as Ariel<\/a>, winning a Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Female Breakthrough Performance.\u00a0 In 2009, she costarred with Kristen Chenoweth in the Encore series revival of Jerome Kern\u2019s \u201cMusic in the Air.\u201d In 2011, Boggess was featured with Tyne Daly in the 2011 revival of \u201cMaster Class,\u201d which was presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life in the 1970s. As such, the play featured incidental vocal music by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, allowing Boggess to show off her classical singing chops.\u00a0 She also created the role of Christine Daae in \u201cLove Never Dies,\u201d the sequel to \u201cPhantom of the Opera.\u201d<\/p>\nBoggess joins Broadway superstars Laura Benanti, Stephanie J. Block, the late Marin Mazzie, Melba Moore, film star Moira Kelly, and the Four Seasons\u2019 Don Ciccone, who have headlined previous Autism New Jersey benefit concerts.\u00a0 The previous events have raised approximately $30,000 for the organization, which is the state\u2019s oldest and most influential advocate for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families.<\/p>\n
Further announcements about the benefit concert will be made as more details about the performance are finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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