The star-studded line-up featured friends reading and singing from his work including Eleanor Reissa, Eyal Danieli, Linda Emond, Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Gosling & Elizabeth Keusch, James Gandolfini, Dave Eggers, Chuck Cooper, Aisha de Haas, Kimberly Grigsby, Denis O'Hare & Alice Playten, Meryl Streep, Catherine Keener, Vince Landay, Spike Jonze and Max Records, Tony Kushner, Christine Quinn and Maurice Sendak himself.