Posted on September 25, 2025 at 11:35 pm

The world I travel in is filled with gay men and women, trans people, and folks who inhabit basically every millimeter of the gender-and-sexuality spectrum. They are my collaborators, my friends, my family, my supporters, my inspirations, and the bedrock of the theater community. And right now they live in a country that is trying even more vociferously than usual to marginalize them, to isolate them, to legislate them out of existence. It is impossible to stand by and watch it happen. I’m doing what I can to help.

On Monday September 8, I drove to Philadelphia where I met up with the radiant Talia Suskauer, who just twenty-four hours earlier had finished her magnificent run as Lucille Frank in the national tour of Parade. We pushed a piano into the center of the Rittenhouse Grill, and we sang our hearts out to support the Mazzoni Center, one of the country’s most significant providers of health services for the LGBTQ+ community. We raised some money, made some new friends and supporters for the Center’s mission, and made a positive change in this world for the people who most make this world worth living in.

Hope from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
I Love Betsy from Honeymoon in Vegas (2015)
It All Fades Away from Bridges of Madison County (2013)
Get Closer from Bridges of Madison County (2013)
TALIA: I’m Not Afraid of Anything from Songs for a New World (1995)
TALIA: Another Life from Bridges of Madison County (2013)
It’s Hard to Speak My Heart from Parade (1998)
TALIA: You Don’t Know This Man from Parade (1998)
TALIA & JRB: All The Wasted Time from Parade (1998)
Zohra’s Philosophy from Less (2025)
Fifty Years Long from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
Wait ’Til You See What’s Next from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
All Things In Time from How We React and How We Recover (2018)

JRB: vocals, piano
Talia Suskauer: vocals