Broadway Dreams Foundation to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Dec 11, 2012

ADVISORY, Dec. 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Broadway Dreams Foundation, a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing training, mentoring and career opportunities to the next generation of musical theater performers, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.

In honor of the occasion, Broadway Dreams Founder and Executive Director Annette Tannerwill ring the closing bell along with BDF Artistic Director Nicholas Rodriguez (Tarzan, "One Life to Live"), Broadway teaching artists Tony Vincent (American Idiot, NBC's "The Voice") and Craig D'Amico (Annie Get Your Gun), as well as BDF's brightest students and rising stars.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite — 4 Times Square — 43rd & BroadwayBroadcast Studio

When:

Wednesday, December 12, 20123:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET

Contact:

Ryan Ratelle
(212) 695-7400
ryan@oandmco.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at:

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About Broadway Dreams Foundation:

The Broadway Dreams Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing training, mentoring and career opportunities to the next generation of musical theater performers. Intensive programs are offered nationally throughout the year, led by an exceptional faculty of high-profile Broadway professionals. This past year, 42% of BDF students attended programs on full or partial scholarship. Past students have gone on to star in Broadway, national touring and regional productions including Bring it On (Ryann Redmond), Bare (Ariana Groover), Memphis(Lindsay Roberts), The Book of Mormon (Paris Nesbitt), Spring Awakening (Blake Daniel) and The Addams Family (Ethan Wexler).

About NASDAQ OMX Group:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 23 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.99+% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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