Jeb Brown to Replace Will Chase in Actors' Fund Working Benefit

Jeb Brown High Fidelity, Ring of Fire will replace Will Chase in the one-night-only, newly adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actors' Fund of America, which will take place February 19 at the Zipper Theatre. Chase has withdrawn from the concert due to scheduling conflicts with a television pilot. Brown joins a line-up that also includes Merle Dandridge Tarzan, Ed Dixon the original production of Les Misérables, Roderick Hill Butley, Celia Keenan-Bolger Les Misérables revival, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Mary Testa On the Town. Warren Carlyle the Kennedy Center's Mame has joined the benefit concert as choreographer.

Working is the 1978 musical adapted by Stephen Schwartz from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This new concert version is adapted from the original by director Gordon Greenberg Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Working includes original songs by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead and James Taylor. Steve Marzullo is the music director.

Working presents men and women from every walk of life talking about their jobs—their likes and dislikes, fears, problems and happiness. Capturing the voices of America, Working creates a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.