World Aids Day Concert

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Barbara Cook and friends present World AIDS Day Concert, Sunday 2 December 2007 at the LONDON COLISEUM, St. Martin lane.

A host of West End stars will be paying tribute to Broadway legend Barbara Cook in an 80th birthday tribute concert for World AIDS Day. Stars will be on stage of the London Coliseum for one night only include: Graham Bickley, Daniel Evans, Ruthie Henshall, Maureen Lipman, Charlotte Page, Elaine Paige, Nicholas Parsons, Sian Phillips, Anne Reid and Sally Anne Triplett and members of the London Gay Men's Chorus

National treasure Julia McKenzie is the latest west end star to join the line up to pay tribute to Tony Award winner and Broadway legend Barbara Cook at the London Coliseum on Sunday 2 December.

Barbara Cook and Friends will be performing to raise funds for Interact Worldwide's give40 campaign and World AIDS Day and its work in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV. Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) is the primary way that children are infected with HIV. Each year, over 500,000 children become infected with HIV. Almost all of these infections occur in developing countries, and more than 90% are the result of mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy, labour and delivery, or breastfeeding.

This World AIDS Day Interact Worldwide is calling on everyone to help by donating 40 minutes in their give40 campaign to help the charity in their fight against HIV/AIDS. Please help if you can by signing up here The concert will be directed and choreographed by Bill Deamer, with musical direction by Gareth Valentine. Joining Barbra on stage will be the great and the good of stage and theatre.

Barbara, who will be celebrating her 80th birthday this year, made her Broadway debut in Flahooley and went on to star in such shows as Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Music Man, The Gay Life, She Loves Me, and The Grass Harp. She has performed frequently in the world's major concert halls and cabaret venues, including the Metropolitan Opera House. This is her first appearance at the London Coliseum.