By Yen Shing
The wonderfully nerdy and single Christian actor/director Zachary Levi, aka Chuck Bartowski, founder of http://www.thenerdmachine.com/ and Nerd HQ, is playing the lead character Aaron in Broadway’s First Date. The musical follows uptight Aaron and serial-dater Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) as their first blind date unfolds and hilarity ensues over the course of the evening. You can now catch preview performances at Longacre Theatre, with the official Opening Night scheduled for August 8 (tickets available at http://firstdatethemusical.com/). But that’s not all. Zachary is holding a charity event “Conversations with a Cause” at Nerd HQ in conjunction with the San Diego International Comic-Con (July 18-21). The event raises money for Operation Smile, a non-profit that provides free surgeries to children with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities. There’s still time to buy tickets for the remaining panels here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/192245
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