The New Year promises to get off to a sizzling start with the 2021 Broadway Asian Men Calendar.
The fundraiser sponsored by Unapologetically Asian will benefit Send Chinatown Love, a community organization providing small business relief to New York City’s Chinatown during the pandemic.
The BAM! Calendar is billed as a love letter to the Asian American community.
The calendar includes a number of firsts-Marc DelaCruz is the first Asian actor to play the title character in the Broadway smash hit, Hamilton. Zachary Noah Piser is the first Asian actor to play the role of Evan Hansen in the Tony Award-winning play Dear Evan Hansen
Others featured are Devin Ilaw and Billy Bustamante in the Miss Saigon Revival, Marcus Shane from the Mean Girls National Tour, Gen Parton-Shin from Rent and Miss Saigon, Jon Hoche in King Kong on Broadway, Al Guerzon in Mama Mia!, George Salazar in Broadway’s Be More Chill and Spring Awakening, Manu Narayan in Bombay Dreams, Kevin Schuering The King & I, Vishal Vaidya in Groundhog Day and Love Life, David Huynh in Vietgone and Henry VI, David Park in Red Roses and Green Gold and Karl Josef Co in The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
“With this calendar, I wanted to provide a space for people to celebrate the beauty and talent of Asian men,” says Mari Uchida, a New York-based Japanese portrait/performance photographer and an actor and stage performer herself. “After the challenges we’ve faced in 2020, I can’t think of a better way to usher in the new year.”
The calendar is supported by the Broadway Diversity Project and Tremendous Communications. It is on sale at www.unapologeticallyAsian.com.