Not even December's plummeting thermostat could stop the #OWS musicians who put together Occupy Broadway - a 24-hour, nonstop roving protest starting last December 2 that occupied a stretch of NYC's theatre district with radical show tunes. Organized by members of the Occupy Wall Street Performance Guild, an offshoot of the Arts and Culture Working Group, the event drew Broadway luminaries and acts such as the New York Neo-Futurists, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, among others, to Paramount Plaza, a privately owned public space on Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets.

"We're occupying it because public space should be used by the public, and we think it should be used for performances," said Claire Lebowitz, a member of the Performance Guild and one of the organizers of the event.