This Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo released by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation shows actress Linda Lavin performing at the third annual "Broadway Belts for PFF!" a benefit for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation at the Birdland Jazz Club in New York. (AP Photo/Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Chris Owyoung)
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This Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo released by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation shows actress Linda Lavin performing at the third annual "Broadway Belts for PFF!" a benefit for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation at the Birdland Jazz Club in New York. (AP Photo/Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Chris Owyoung)
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This screen grab shows the main page of the new online Spanish language AP stylebook which was launched on Nov. 19, 2012. The Associated Press has launched its first-ever Spanish stylebook, a reference guide designed to provide a valuable tool for journalists, writers, editors and scholars of the language spoken by some 450 million people globally. (AP Photo)
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In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Brian Preece and his wife Rebecca, of Nampa, Idaho, who want to adopt a Russian boy with Down's syndrome, speak in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Russia's children rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov speaks during his news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Astakhov has insisted that American families in legal limbo in their attempts to adopt children will be allowed to take them back to the U.S. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Bangladeshis and firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. An official said firefighters have recovered more than 100 bodies after a fire raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside Bangladesh's capital. (AP Photo/Polash Khan)
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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius starts in the men's 400-meter semifinal during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs. Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the home, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
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Olympian Oscar Pistorius, foreground, stands following his bail hearing, as his brother Carl, centre, and father Henke, right, look on, in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine's Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he charged the sports icon with premeditated murder. The magistrate ruled that Pistorius faces the harshest bail requirements available in South African law. He did not elaborate before a break was called in the session. (AP Photo-Masi Losi-Pretoria News) SOUTH AFRICA OUT
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A man identified by police as a Corinthians soccer fan, right, is escorted by police to the police station's offices in Oruro, Bolivia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Twelve Corinthian soccer fans were arrested on suspicion of having caused the death of a 14-year-old San Jose soccer fan by launching an explosive device during a Copa Libertadores game between San Jose and Corinthians on Wednesday in the Bolivian city of Oruro, according to police. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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A man identified by police as a Corinthians soccer fan, left, is escorted by police to the police station's offices in Oruro, Bolivia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Twelve Corinthian soccer fans were arrested on suspicion of having caused the death of a 14-year-old San Jose soccer fan by launching an explosive device during a Copa Libertadores game between San Jose and Corinthians on Wednesday in the Bolivian city of Oruro, according to police. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Relatives place the coffin containing the remains of Kevin Beltran Estrada, who died after an explosive went off during a soccer game, into a car in Oruro, Bolivia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Twelve Corinthian soccer fans were arrested on suspicion of having caused the death of a 14-year-old San Jose soccer fan by launching an explosive device during a Copa Libertadores game between San Jose and Corinthians on Wednesday in the Bolivian city of Oruro, according to police. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Linda Lavin sings at pulmonary fibrosis benefit
NEW YORK (
AP) —
Tony Award winners
Linda Lavin and
Debbie Gravitte teamed up to sing "You've Got Possibilities" and "Mr. Monotony" during the third annual concert to benefit the
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
The event Monday at Birdland Jazz Club also featured Emily Bergl, Robert Creighton, Max von Essen, Klea Blackhurst, Emma Hunton and Edward Watts. Actress Julie Halston served as host.
The event raised almost $70,000, which will benefit the foundation's The Michael Kuchwara Fund for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research, Education and Advocacy. Kuchwara was The Associated Press' longtime theater critic who died in 2010 from complications due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease that causes scarring and affects between 132,000-200,000 people in the United States.
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Online: http://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org/broadwaybelts
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