{"id":206541,"date":"2026-04-22T22:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:36","slug":"amber-ruffin-and-plasma-will-host-instead-of-eurovision-concert-spotlighting-original-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206541\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Ruffin and Plasma Will Host Instead of Eurovision Concert, Spotlighting Original Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy and Tony\u00a0nominee\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/amber-ruffin-performer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Ruffin<\/a> and RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race season 16 star Plasma will host a benefit cabaret, Instead of Eurovision,\u00a0May 16 at 3 PM\u00a0at The Green Room 42 in Manhattan. The afternoon will also\u00a0stream live.<\/p>\n<p>Occurring at the same time as the live finals of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, Instead of Eurovision will parody the Eurovision format by showcasing new, original songs from fictional countries written by theatre composers and performed by Broadway artists to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can expect to hear new songs from\u00a0composers Ari Afsar, Cheeyang Ng, Fouad Dakwar, Jake Schroeder, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/joe-iconis-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Iconis<\/a>, Joriah Kwam\u00e9, Julian Hornik, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/rona-siddiqui\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rona Siddiqui<\/a>, and Zeniba Now. <\/p>\n<p>Ruffin said in a statement, &#8220;I am so excited to bring you our own version of everyone\u2019s favorite annual tradition! Instead of Eurovision will bring you all the fun of the actual event except our songs will be ridiculous on purpose!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emmy, Tony, and WGA Award nominee Ruffin is a writer and performer&#13;<br \/>\n for Late Night With Seth Meyers and Have I Got News for You. She &#13;<br \/>\nhas also written and performed on The Amber Ruffin &#13;<br \/>\nShow, Detroiters, A Black Lady Sketch Show,\u00a0and Drunk History.  Her work as a librettist includes Broadway\u2019s <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/some-like-it-hot-2022-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Some Like It Hot<\/a> and the recent revival of <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/the-wiz-broadway-marquis-theatre-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wiz<\/a>. She also co-wrote the book and music for Off-Broadway\u2019s BIGFOOT!<\/p>\n<p> Produced by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/benson-drive-productions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benson Drive Productions<\/a>, net proceeds will be donated to Broadway Cares.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available &#13;<br \/>\nstarting at $25 with no food or beverage minimum. Tickets, live-stream &#13;<br \/>\ntickets, and more information are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreenroom42.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thegreenroom42.com\">TheGreenRoom42.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmy and Tony\u00a0nominee\u00a0Amber Ruffin and RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race season 16 star Plasma will host a benefit cabaret, Instead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-206541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}