Photo Coverage: Broadway Bares 16 Raises $659,500
By: Linda Lenzi Jun. 20, 2006
"Broadway Bares 16: New York Strip" was a roaring success with a record-breaking $659,500 raised to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The evening featured 200 of the sexiest chorus boys and girls from Broadway's biggest shows baring (almost) all, along with some of Broadway's biggest stars including Sandra Bernhard; Mario Cantone; Alan Cumming; Fran Drescher; Sara Gettelfinger; Cyndi Lauper; Rita Wilson and from the cast of Jersey Boys, Dominic Nolfi, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, and John Lloyd Young. The previous record was set in 2005, with $654,000 raised.
"Broadway Bares" is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, executive produced by Tony Awardâ-winner Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, La Cage Aux Folles) and directed by Denis Jones (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). Food was supplied by Tony's DiNapoli Times Square.Highlights from this year's "Broadway Bares 16" included: Cyndi Lauper (Threepenny Opera) performing a moving rendition of her hit "True Colors," then opening her overcoat to reveal pasties and a phallus; Sara Gettelfinger (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) performing the shows opening number "New York Strip," which was penned by Gary Adler (Altar Boyz); and Barrett Foa (Avenue Q) and Matthew Rannells (Hairspray) providing comic relief as "Chip" and "Chip" a young gay couple from the Midwest visiting New York for the first time.Visit www.broadwaycares.org for more information.
Welcome to "Broadway Bares!:" Lakey Wolff and Brian Ballone
Performance
Backstage
Josh Strickland
Michelle Kittrell and Josh Strickland
Rick Dinihanian
Tony James and Timothy Bish
Eric Christian and Jaymes Hodges
Jaymes Hodges, Ramon Flowers and Eric Christian
Adam Fleming and Whitney Osentoski
Jennifer Cody and T. Oliver Reid
The "Sex in the City" Girls
Sara Gettelfinger
Sara Gettelfinger and Jeff Johnson
Christopher Sieber
J. Robert Spencer, Dominick Nofli , Christopher Sieber, John Lloyd Young, and Daniel Reichard
Jennifer Cody with Broadway Bares Dancers
Fran Drescher with Ray Calderon and Garrett Miller
Fran Drescher and Matthew Kilgore
Rachelle Rak with a group of her Broadway Bares Men
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming and Ramon Flowers
Alan Cumming and Russell Tovey
Jen Colella and Jen Foote
Living Art by Armando Model and Marty Thomas
Living Art by Armando Model Brandon, Marty Thomas and T. Oliver Reid
Josh Robers, Marty Thomas and William Michael Peters
Sarah Jenkins
Alan Cumming with New Colossus Performers Rosie Lani Fiedelman and Chris Mai
New Colossus Perfomers
Marissa Jaret Winokur and Vincent De Paul
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Broadway Bares Beauties
Rachelle Rak and Greg Butler
Joe Whitmeyer with Broadway Bares Beauties
Peter Gregus
Mario Cantone and Marissa Jaret Winokur
Cyndi Lauper
Dominique Kelley and Cyndi Lauper
Sandra Bernhard and Rita Wilson
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