MTC's Winter Benefit is an intimate musical event featuring Broadway's brightest stars in an exclusive one-night only cabaret. The event is co-chaired by MTC Board members Fiona Kirk, Sharon Sullivan, and Lisa Towbin. This year’s performance – directed by MTC’s Artistic Director, Lynne Meadow – will feature Sierra Boggess, Brian d’Arcy James, Nikki M. James, and Paulo Szot.

The Plaza Hotel
7:00 p.m. Cocktails
8:00 p.m. Dinner
9:15 p.m. Cabaret Performance

Cocktail Attire

To buy tickets or tables online, please click here. For more information about the Winter Benefit, please contact Kristina Hoge, Director of Special Events, at (212) 399-3000 ext. 4145 or khoge@mtc-nyc.org.

SIERRA BOGGESS recently returned to the London stage for the 25th Anniversary Concerts of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. Prior to that she starred opposite Tyne Daly in Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's Master Class. Sierra was nominated for the 2011 Olivier Award as Best Actress for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies in the West End. Her other theatre credits include starring in the Broadway production of Disney's The Little Mermaid (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations and Broadway.com award for Favorite Breakthrough Performance) and in the City Center Encores! production of Music in the Air. Concert appearances include The BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series: The Lyrics of David Zippel, New York Pops at Lincoln Center and Broadway by the Year at Town Hall. Sierra's recordings include the original cast albums of "Love Never Dies" and "The Little Mermaid" and Andrew Lippa's "A Little Princess". She holds a BFA from Millikin University.

BRIAN D'ARCY JAMES is currently shooting the first season of the TV show "Smash."A Broadway veteran, he most recently earned rave reviews in Manhattan Theatre Club's Time Stands Still. Other stage credits include Shrek the Musical (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Tony nomination), The Apple Tree, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Sweet Smell of Success (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk nomination), Titanic, Carousel, Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway: Port Authority (Lucile Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award nomination), Next to Normal, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pavilion, Flight, The Good Thief (Keen Company; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, Backstage Garland Award, L.A. Weekly Award), Pardon My English, The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination),Public Enemy (by Kenneth Branagh), Floyd Collins, Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Film/TV: Game Change, Friends with Kids, Ghost Town, Cashmere Mafia, Rescue Me. Solo debut album: From Christmas Eve to Christmas Morn. BS: Northwestern University.

NIKKI M. JAMES recently won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Nabalungi in The Book of Mormon which she is currently starring in. Other credits include: Broadway: All Shook Up (Lorraine), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Other Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Caesar and Cleopatra (Cleopatra opposite Christopher Plummer) at Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Dorothy in The Wiz (Craig Noel Award) at La Jolla Playhouse, Adela in Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center Theater), Otillie in House of Flowers (City Center Encores!), Walmartopia (Off Broadway). Workshops: Lizzie in Baby(Papermill/NJPAC), Beehive on Broadway.TV: "30 Rock," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Third Watch," "The Jury." Holds a BFA in Drama from NYU.

Baritone PAULO SZOT made his Broadway debut as Emile de Becque in Lincoln Center Theater's 2008 revival of South Pacific, for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor in a Musical, a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. He performs on the world's major opera stages while continuing to perform in more intimate concert settings such as at the Café Carlyle, where he recently appeared for the third time. He has also appeared in concert at the Allen Room as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, with The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Szot made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the company's critically acclaimed production of Shostakovich's The Nose, returned to the MET stage last season in Carmen and later this season will appear there once again in Manon. He made his professional opera debut at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo in 1997, and since then has also performed with the Opera de Paris, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Marséille and Liceo de Barcelona, among others.