The Broadway cast of Waitress has covered a song penned by Nick Cordero to encourage donations to his family as he recovers from severe complications of the novel coronavirus.
Singer-songwriter and Waitress compser Sara Bareilles joined the cast, including Jessie Mueller, Kimiko Glenn, Keala Seattle,Jenna Ushkowitz and Eric Anderson, to sing Cordero's original song "Live Your Life" over video chat in a video posted on Sunday.
The rendition of Cordero's 2018 single is accompanied by a plea to donate to a GoFundMe set up toraise money to cover Cordero's health care costs.
Cordero, a Broadway star who was part of the original cast ofWaitressin 2016 and also appeared inBullets Over Broadway — for which he was nominated for a Tony Award — Rock.