Elon Cares

Elon Cares returns for its 18th year. This event is a benefit cabaret for the national organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. Event information and more details below.

Elon Cares 2025
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Location: Yeager Recital Hall, Center for the Arts
Address: 417 N Williamson Ave, Elon, NC 27244

Join us for a night of performance to benefit a fantastic organization! On Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm, students will come together to showcase Elon Cares. Elon Cares is a benefit cabaret for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. At each performance, audience members can donate to benefit Broadway Cares and help Elon Cares reach their goal of $2,000.

Each donation is also an entry into one of our 13 raffles for various prizes; raffle prizes include (but aren’t limited to) signed playbills and posters from Broadway Companies, private industry sessions via zoom, a headshot session, and even a PR merchandise box from various films including ‘Wicked’; each item was donated by an alumnus from the Department of Performing Arts.

Donations will be collected via cash, check, or via online donation. To make online donations click the above ‘Donate’ button and for more information about Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS visit https://broadwaycares.org/.

Sponsored by the Gender and LGBTQIA Center. Questions can be directed to lgaray@elon.edu.

Raffle items are courtesy of the following performing arts students and alumni:

  • Cara Rose DiPietro ’21
  • Hannah Kevitt ’23
  • Willem Butler ’22
  • Jennifer Michael Matthews ‘01
  • Ella Huestis ’25
  • Mackenzie Bell
  • Derick Donato ’25
  • Audrey Trullinger ’22
  • Tucker Stampen ‘17
  • Elsa Keefe ’24
  • Alec Michael Ryan ’19
  • Zion Middleton ’23
  • Jaron Cole ’23

Elon Cares 2024

Join us for a night of performance to benefit a fantastic organization! On Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm, students will come together to showcase Elon Cares. Elon Cares is a benefit cabaret for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. At each performance, audience members can donate to benefit Broadway Cares and help Elon Cares reach their goal of $2,000.

Each donation is also an entry into one of our 16 raffles for various prizes; raffle prizes include (but aren’t limited to) signed playbills and posters from Broadway Companies, private zoom sessions with agents and actors alike, a headshot session, and even studio space at Pearl Studios in NYC; each item was donated by an alumnus from the Department of Performing Arts.

Donations will be collected via cash, check, or via online donation. To make online donations click below and for more information about Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS visit https://broadwaycares.org/.

Donate To Help Us Reach Our Goal
Sponsored by the Gender and LGBTQIA Center. Questions can be directed to lgaray@elon.edu or sfinney2@elon.edu.

You can view the full list of raffle items here. Raffle items are courtesy of the following performing arts students and alumni:

Willem Butler ’22
Patrick Clanton ’14
Kali Clougherty ’22
Cara Rose DiPietro ’21
Dan Gibson ’09
Marina Jansen ’25
Hannah Kevitt ’24
JJ Niemann ’17
Andrew Purdy ’20
Drew Redington ’18
Jake David Smith ’19
Tucker Stampen ’19
Nasia Thomas ’15
Audrey Trullinger ’22
Sidney Wilson ’21

Elon Cares 2023

Join us for a night of performance to benefit a fantastic organization! On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 6:30pm and 8:30pm, students will come together for “Elon Cares”. Elon Cares is a benefit cabaret for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. At each performance audience members can donate to benefit Broadway Cares and help Elon Cares reach their goal of $1,000. Each donation is also an entry into one of our 13 raffles for various prizes; raffle prizes include (but aren’t limited to) tickets to see Broadway’s SIX, signed Broadway Playbills and posters from various productions, and a one-on-one Zoom Q&A with JJ Neimann; each item was donated by an alumnus from the Department of Performing Arts. Donations will be collected via cash, check, or via online donation. For more information and to stay up to date visit https://linktr.ee/eloncares.

This year we are excited to partner with one of Broadway Cares’ grantees, Triad Health Project, for resources and testing services. Sponsored by the Gender and LGBTQIA Center. Questions can be directed to glc@elon.edu.

Raffle prizes include:

  • Signed playbills and posters
  • Tickets to national tours
  • Coaching sessions
  • Website creation

You can view the full list of raffle items. Raffle items are courtesy of Willem Butler ’22, Andrew Purdy ’20, Patrick Clanton ’14, Nasia Thomas ’15, Daniel Brackett ’22, Gerald Caeser ’16, and Steven Tesley ’18.