Caregiving Club CEO, Sherri Snelling, takes to the red carpet Wednesday, March 21 to interview celebrities and other VIPs attending the 20^th Anniversary of the Alzheimer’s Association gala event, A Night At Sardi’s.  View the interviews on our Caregiving Club YouTube channel or on the right hand sidebar.  Sherri will also be live blogging from the event, join the Caregiving Club Facebook page to join the celebrity caregiving conversation from 6:30 – 9:00pm PT!   

 

 

 

 

The event will be hosted by Emmy and Tony Award winning actor David Hyde Pierce, who has been a longtime advocate and champion for the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. To date, this annual event has raised more than $20 million in the fight to end Alzheimer’s.

 

 

 

The following celebrities will comprise the talented cast that will sing and dance to some of the

most memorable moments from some of Broadway’s biggest hits including Hair, Spamalot,

Guys and Dolls and more:

 

Kristen Bell (House of Lies), the cast of The Big Bang Theory, including Johnny Galecki, Jim

Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik, Idina

Menzel (Glee), Taye Diggs (Private Practice), Gilles Marini (Switched at Birth), Peter Gallagher

(Covert Affairs), David Hyde Pierce (Frasier), Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Wayne

Brady, Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Sean Hayes (Will &Grace), Scott Porter (Hart of Dixie), Zac

Levi (Chuck), Jane Seymour (Love, Wedding, Marriage), James Keach (Director: Waiting for

Forever), Alfre Woodard (Memphis Beat), Marilu Henner (Unforgettable), Patrick Cassidy (Ruby

& the Rockits), Jon Lovitz (The Simpsons), Joey McIntyre (New Kids on the Block), Alexandra

Chando (The Lying Game), Steven Weber (Happy Town), and Eva La Rue (All My Children),

among others.

The CBS’s show Unforgettable, starring Poppy Montgomery (Detective Carrie Wells) and Dylan Walsh (Lt. Al Burns), will receive the Abe Burrows Entertainment Award for the inclusion of an Alzheimer’s story arc that raises concern and awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and is a reminder of how prevalent Alzheimer’s disease is in our everyday lives.   Serving as a consultant on the series is actress Marilu Henner, who like the series lead character Carrie Wells, possesses hyperthymesia (superior autobiographical memory skills) in real life. She had a guest spot in the episode “Golden Bird”, as Wells’s aunt, who is suffering from symptoms similar to that of Wells’s mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

 

The event will also honor Susan Disney Lord with the Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver of the Year Award. She was a caregiver for her mother, Patricia Disney who recently died from Alzheimer’s at the age of 77. Disney Lord is a philanthropist, advocate, and active member of the Alzheimer’s Association California Southland Chapter Board of Directors.