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Front Row Foundation
October 15, 2008 – Wheeling, IL – On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, Carey
Smolensky, president of Carey Smolensky Productions and Mobile Music
Interactive Entertainment in Wheeling, partnered with the Front Row
Foundation, a non profit organization that puts people braving critical
health challenges in the front row of concerts, sporting events and
live theater, to bring the thrill and excitement of “WICKED-The
Musical” to thirteen-year-old Michelle Rappaport of Buffalo Grove.
Michelle is battling the rare genetic disorder Familial Dysautonomia.
Smolensky treated Michelle and her family to a day that will be
treasured and remembered forever.
Melinda is 21-years old and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the
age of 8 months. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which mainly
affects the lungs and digestive systems. Melinda spends most of her day
doing respiratory treatments to help her breathe properly. She has
gastric tube feedings to maintain her weight and takes approximately 25
pills per day to keep lung infections under control. After finding out
that Melinda is a HUGE Jimmy Buffett fan, Front Row Foundation and
Event Coordinator Alicia Anderer, put Melinda, her mom Nancy and father
Ian in the Front Row of the Jimmy Buffet Concert on June 26th 2007.
13 year old Leona Witherspoon from Philadelphia, PA had been fighting
leukemia for some time when the Front Row Foundation received an email
from her social worker Nicole Pier at Chop Hospital of Philadelphia.
Nicole said that Leona loves music and more than anything wanted to see
The Color Purple, the musical about love presented by Oprah Winfrey.
Front Row Team went to work to make her wish become a reality.
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