Tony Award winners Betty Buckley and Lillias White and original Rent star Anthony Rapp are among Broadway performers lined up to spend One Night With the Stars, a benefit for Wigs & Wishes, the charity that provides wigs and grants wishes to women and children who have lost their hair and are otherwise suffering from cancer.

Broadway, TV, film, and music stars recently added to the 7:30 PM December 4 concert at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City include Fran Drescher, Constantine Maroulis, Darci Lynne, Tom Bergeron, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jesse Medeles, Cheryl Burke, and the duo Tabitha & Napoleon D’umo (a.k.a. Nappytabs).

They will appear alongside the previously announced Mandy Gonzalez, Lainie Kazan, Telly Leung, Noah Galvin, Bruce Vilanch, Jon Jon Briones, Jennifer Gambatese, Jordin Sparks, Natasha Bedingfield, Sofia Carson, Sal Valentinetti, James Maslow, and Sharon Catherine Brown. Lineup subject to change. Billy Blanks Jr. is scheduled to direct.

Tickets cost $66 to $1,006. Net proceeds for the 7:30 PM concert will go to the Wigs & Wishes foundation, which was launched by celebrity hairstylist Martino Cartier.

Wigs & Wishes held its annual gala October 22 in New Jersey.

Lillias White has been a special guest performer on Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas cruises. Tickets are now on sale for Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas July 2018 cruise to Iceland, accompanied by Judy Kuhn, Christine Ebersole, Rob McClure, Jarrod Spector, Carmen Cusack, and Sierra Boggess.

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Actor and comedian Bruce Vilanch and Tony Award-nominated composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have been added to the lineup of the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko cabaret series at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

Vilanch, who has been seen on Broadway in Hairspray, will perform July 18 at 8 PM, and Pasek and Paul, Tony-nominated for Broadway’s A Christmas Story, will perform July 19 at 8 PM and July 20 at 7 PM.

Other performers at Feinstein’s at the Nikko include Nicole Henry (July 12 at 8 PM, July 13 at 7 PM), Emily Bergl (July 25 at 8 PM, July 26 at 8 PM and July 27 at 7 PM), Christine Andreas (Aug. 1 at 8 PM, Aug. 2 at 8 PM and Aug. 3 at 7 PM), Ariana Savalas (Aug. 8 at 8 PM), Missi Pyle (Aug. 9 at 8 PM, Aug. 10 at 7 PM), Donna McKechnie (Aug. 16 at 8 PM, Aug. 17 at 7 PM), Andrea McArdle (Aug. 23 at 8 PM, Aug. 24 at 7 PM), Christine Ebersole (Sept. 5 at 8 PM, Sept. 6 at 8 PM, Sept. 7 at 7 PM), Jack Jones (Sept. 19 at 8 PM, Sept. 20 at 8 PM, Sept 21 at 7 PM) and Tommy Tune (Sept. 26 at 8 PM, Sept. 27 at 8 PM and Sept. 28 at 7 PM).

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The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall event, titled “A Bipolar Evening With Friends: Florence Henderson and Bruce Vilanch,” benefited, in part, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, as Henderson literally passed the hat near the opening of her portion of the show.

Promising to “tell the truth” in this musical revue of her life story, Henderson — best known as the wife and mom on the hit ’70s TV series “The Brady Bunch” — dished about her apparently squeaky clean personal past. She says she was a virgin when she married Ira Bernstein, the father of their four children. She never had an affair with Richard Rodgers, her womanizing mentor who discovered her during an audition for the national tour of “Oklahoma!” She “probably could have,” but didn’t have an affair with Frank Sinatra. And, at 76 — she’s in terrific shape: “I do Pilates three times a week, but what happened to the men my age?” — the twice-married widow of eight years is open to dating again.

When asked at a reception after the show, Henderson said that while no one could top Christine Ebersole in the lead role of “Grey Gardens” (Ebersole comes to Guild Hall for a concert this weekend), the John Drew Theater should “deifnintely do ‘Grey Gardens,’ ” the Tony-winning musical set in East Hampton.

Bruce Vilanch, who connected with Henderson in the ill-fated “Brady Bunch Variety Hour,” which lasted all of nine episodes, opened with a standup routine about his career as a writer for beauty pageants, and for the last 21 years, the Academy Awards broadcast. He recalls introducing Sophia Loren to Jack Black. “She had no idea who he was and started talking in menu Italian. That’s when you know you’re in trouble.”

Despite his joke about Montauk Highway traffic — “I got a house out here in April and I’m still trying to get there on [Route] 27” — Vilanch, who lives in California, doesn’t have a place in the Hamptons. He brought along his mother, Henrietta, for the show.

Henderson, who also lives in California, said the Guild Hall show brought her to the Hamptons for only her second time. “It’s lovely,” she said, “except for the humidity.”

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