Actors Fund's New Campaign Hopes To Raise $12.5 Million For Struggling Artists

[Kevin McCollum, Jonathan Tisch, Annette Bening, Angela Lansbury, Brian Stokes Mitchell. All photos by JIMI CELESTE for PMc] Attention world! Angela Lansbury is alive and looking fierce. The Murder She Wrote babe, along with  actors Annette Bening, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lynn Redgrave, and a slew of legendary Broadway stars, celebrated the Actors Fund's launch of its "Responding to Essential and Evolving Needs" campaign at the Regency Hotel last night. In a time of need and crisis, the organization's trustees and co-chairs, Bening, Jonathan Tisch, and , Kevin McCollum hope to raise $12.5 million for the Actors Funds human services programs.

The Actors Funds helps those in performing art and entertainment who are in need, facing a crisis, or are in the middle of a transition.

Annette Bening, Angela Lansbury, Brian Stokes Mitchell, B.D. Wong

Andrea Burns, Jonathan Tisch

Blue steel: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Constantine Maroulis, John Goodman

Kevin McCollum, Annette Bening, Jonathan Tisch

Angela Lansbury, Lynn Redgrave

Brian d'arcy James, Bebe Neuwirth