2007 Flea Market Raises $559,810 Beating 2006 Total

The 2007 Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction raised a total of $559,810, beating the 2006 total of $505,832. Over the past 21 years, the Flea Markets and Grand Auctions have raised a total of $7,262,372. 

The top table for the year was the ever-popular Broadway Beat ($15,016), with the show table that had the most success being XANADU's ($10,138) followed closely behind by THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ($10,038). 

BroadwayWorld.com was there as well, right in the heart of Shubert Alley, bringing fans and the web site's audience LIVE video coverage throughout the day, including celebrity interviews and a first-ever broadcast of the ENTIRE Grand Auction over the web. The site also sold some of it's favorite photos from BroadwayWorld.com photographers Walter McBride and Linda Lenzi. Stay tuned to the web site for photos from Linda Lenzi who was there for the day.

The event was held outdoors in Shubert Alley and was free and open to the public. From posing with your favorite Broadway star for photos to buying that lost cast recording, signed show posters and Playbills, rare costume sketches or special gift for a theatre-lover you can't find anywhere – this year's Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction promises to offer something for everyone.

The following celebrities appeared at the Celebrity Autograph Table and Photo Booth in exchange for donations to BC/EFA. 

F. Murray Abraham ( Mauritius), Bryan Batt ("Mad Men"), Jeff Branson ("All My Children"), Kerry Butler ( Xanadu), Max Crumm (Grease), Tyne Daly (Rabbit Hole), Kevin Chamberlin (The Ritz), Kamar De Los Reyes ("One Life to Live"), Melissa Claire Egan ("All My Children"), Christine Ebersole ( Grey Gardens), Nicole Forester ("Guiding Light"), Jonathan Groff ( Spring Awakening), Van Hansis ("As The World Turns"), Christian Hoff ( Jersey Boys), Amy Irving (The Coast of Utopia), Dana Ivey (Henry IV),  Ilene Kristen ("One Life to Live"), Beth Leavel ( The Drowsy Chaperone), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Lea Michele ( Spring Awakening), Debra Monk ( Curtains), Julia Murney ( Wicked), Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago), Robert Newman ("Guiding Light"), Laura Osnes (Grease), Orfeh ( Legally Blonde), Bernadette Peters (Gypsy), David Hyde Pierce (Curtains), Anthony Rapp ( Rent), Corin Redgrave (Tynan), Lynn Redgrave (Grace), Vanessa RedgraveThe Year of Magical Thinking), Daniel Reichard ( Jersey Boys), Tony Roberts ( Xanadu), Sherri Saum ("One Life to Live"), Marian SeldesDeuce), Kate Shindle ( Legally Blonde), Christopher Sieber (Spamalot), Jake Silberman ("As The World Turns"), J. Robert Spencer (Jersey Boys), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime), Robin Strasser ("One Life to Live"), Mary Testa ( Xanadu), Jo Anne Worley ( The Drowsy Chaperone) and many more.

Photo: Christian Hoff and Anthony Rapp by Linda Lenzi