Avenue Q Trekkie Monster Added to Flea Market Auctions

Bidders for the 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market's Grand Auction will have the chance to obtain Avenue Q most pornographically-minded puppet.

A retired Trekkie Monster from the Tony Award-winning musical is the latest auction item to come in (although a description has not yet been added to the BC/EFA website).  Pre-bids are accepted for Grand Auction items.

The Broadway Flea Market, held each September in Shubert Alley, brings out the biggest and brightest stars from Broadway, Off-Broadway, Dance and daytime television to greet fans and sell memorabilia. Casts and company members of dozens of shows are joined by theatrical unions and guilds, producing organizations, local merchants, and many other groups to sell costume pieces, autographs, original scripts, rare photographs, and so much more," according to notes on the BC/EFA website.

"The event also includes the Celebrity Table, where celebrities gather throughout the day to sign autographs and pose for photos in exchange for donations. The highlight of the Flea Market is the Grand Auction, in which singular items and opportunities such as walk-on roles in Broadway shows, television programs and films are available to the highest bidder."

The Flea Market and Grand Auction will take place on Sunday, September 24th from 10 AM through 7 PM at Shubert Alley and 44th St.

Theatre fans can also bid online for the Flea Market's auctions. To place a pre-bid on Grand Auction items, visit this link. To place a pre-bid on Silent Auction items, visit this one.

Previously announced auctions include chances to: make a walk-on appearance in Rent, meet Anthony Rapp, have dinner with Barrett Foa after catching a performance of Spelling Bee, spend a day with The Phantom of the Opera, be interviewed by Jiminy Glick at Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, win a Grey Gardens opening night package, Meryl Streep's Mother Courage hat, opening night packages for Butley, Grey Gardens, Les Miserables and The Little Dog Laughed and a "One Singular Sensational Night" A Chorus Line package.

Other auctions include chances to: win a Sweeney Todd marquee photo autographed by Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, and an Avenue Q Backstage Autograph Book, signed by over 60 celebrities, including Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Kate Winslet, Angela Lansbury, Hugh Jackman, Chita Rivera and more, win Kevin Kline's Mother Courage wristwatch, a "Broadway Bares" t-shirt autographed by cast members (and a Carmen Miranda costume worn in 2004), and an ABBA 1978 "Voulez Vous" album, autographed by ABBA members Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Frida (the brunette).

Visit www.broadwaycares.org for more information.