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“Fight With Love” is a fourth-annual completely student-created musical theatre revue to benefit the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provides help with medical and living expenses to those struggling with HIV/AIDS nationally, and does that through grants to smaller organizations, such as AIDS Care (the recent merger of AIDS Rochester and the AIDS Community Health Center). So your help with be felt here in Rochester and all over the country.

The scenes and songs presented in the show, which is different every year, echo the theme, "Fight With Love," as it details the struggles and joys we all encounter in our relationships with family, friends, lovers and ourselves.

This year’s show specifically addresses one of the most difficult aspects of fighting any serious illness: loneliness, the feeling that one's struggle is unique to oneself, that no one can possibly understand. Family and friends also face a kind of loneliness: feeling that they are caring for someone alone, frustration that no one around them may understand what it is to care for an ill person, and, of course, fear of the death of a loved one. This year's show will explore how we face and overcome the loneliness and emotional disconnect that we all experience at some point in our lives, whether illness-related or not.

The show will include material molded from interviews of Rochesterians who have a variety of relationships to the HIV/AIDS epidemic — those who’ve lost friends or significant others, parents of the sick, doctors, community advocates and those just happy to be alive.

The family-friendly show is both funny and profound, and will reach audience members in every stage of their lives.

The other take on the title, of course, is to fight the ignorance, hatred and discrimination that surrounds the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic — with love.

In its four years, the production has flourished, and many Rochester business and community members have gotten involved. This is more than a performance and it's more than a benefit: it is an opportunity for both the leaders and the youth of Rochester to stand up and say we will not let HIV/AIDS destroy the lives of people in our country. We will fight.

And for our performers, Rochester-based high school and college students attending the most prestigious theatre training programs in the Northeast and in the country, it is an opportunity to use our talents for more than just to inspire and entertain, but also to heal.

Showtimes:
July 23 at 8 p.m.
July 24 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
July 25 at 2:30 p.m

Geva Theatre Center Nextstage
75 Woodbury Blvd, Rochester, NY 14607
www.gevatheatre.org