BC/EFA Sets Celebrity Appearance, Auction Slate for 28th Annual Flea Market: BEAUTIFUL, LES MIZ, Idina Menzel, Hugh Jackman & More!

The biggest day of the year for Broadway fans will include unique showbiz treasures, the opportunity to meet your favorite cast members and the chance to bid on exclusive backstage experiences as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents the 28th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction (#bwayflea).

On Sunday, September 21, 2014, fans and stars will come together to celebrate theatre at the free-to-the-public, once-a-year outdoor market. Pre-bidding is now open online on dozens of auction items which will be available throughout the day at the Grand Auction's silent and live auctions. The always popular Autograph Table and Photo Booth will feature more than 50 of Broadway's best greeting their fans.

The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will take over the pedestrian plaza along Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets while also lining West 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues and filling the Flea Market's original home in Shubert Alley. The Autograph Table and Photo Booth will again be based on the deck of Junior's Restaurant in Shubert Alley at West 45th Street. The festive outdoor market takes place from 10 AM - 7 PM.

From walk-on appearances in Broadway's biggest hits to lunches with Tony Award winners, from opening night tickets to handwritten and signed musical phrases, dozens of auction items are available for pre-bidding at broadwaycares.org. Among the lots up for bids are:

o Unique, priceless experiences of walk-on roles in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Chicago, Cinderella, Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, LES MISERABLES, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Motown: The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages and Wicked with more to be announced.

o VIP house seats and backstage visits to meet the stars of Aladdin (you can even rub the Genie's lamp!), The Book of Mormon, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Honeymoon in Vegas, Once and Pageant: The Musical with more to be announced.

o One-of-a-kind show memorabilia signed by Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Katharine Hepburn, Angela Lansbury, Judith Light, Patti LuPone, Shirley MacLaine, Idina Menzel, Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli, Hal Prince, Elaine Stritch and more.

o Backstage meet-and-greets with stage and screen icons Hugh Jackman, who's returning to Broadway this fall in the much-anticipated play The River, and Idina Menzel, starring in If/Then.

o A collection of rare Barbra Streisand collectibles, including the 1962 program from her pre-Broadway run of I Can Get It for You Wholesale, a typed insert from the first out-of-town performance of Funny Girl in 1964 and more.

o Two fabulous "dining with the stars" opportunities to get the behind-the-scenes skinny. Enjoy lunch with two of Broadway's legendary "dames," Tony Award winners Donna McKechnie and Debra Monk. And share a bowl of risotto with Tony winner Andrea Martin and Seth Rudetsky, one celebrated queen of stage and screen and one obsessed "king of deconstruction."

o Musical phrases handwritten and signed by Mel Brooks, Berry Gordy, Carole King, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson Lopez, Alan Menken and Jack Feldman, Matt Parker and Trey Stone, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan and more.

o Opening night tickets for and passes to the opening night parties of Broadway's hottest shows of the new season, including An American in Paris, The Audience, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Disgraced, Fun Home, Honeymoon in Vegas, It's Only a Play, The Last Ship, On the Town, On the Twentieth Century, The River, Side Show and You Can't Take It With You with more to be announced.

Silent auction lots will be opened every half hour from 10 AM until 3:30 PM; the live auction begins at 5 PM. Pre-bidding on silent and live auction lots is available online now through 10 AM ET on September 20, the day before the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction. The Grand Auction, which includes the silent and live auctions, will be based in the Times Square pedestrian plaza between 43rd and 44th Streets.

More than 60 tables full of Broadway memorabilia, trinkets, Playbills and one-of-a-kind treasures will line West 44th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Among the shows scheduled to have tables this year are Aladdin, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, The Book of Mormon, Cabaret, Cinderella, If/Then, The Lion King, Kinky Boots, LES MISERABLES, Mamma Mia!, Matilda The Musical, Motown: The Musical, Newsies, Once, Pageant: The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages and Wicked.

The Autograph Table and Photo Booth, hosted once again by the inimitable Jim Caruso, will welcome well-loved stars of stage and screen. Groups of stars will rotate through the Autograph Table & Photo Booth each hour between 11 AM and 3 PM on the deck of Junior's Restaurant in Shubert Alley at West 45th Street.

The line-up of special guests, which is subject to change, includes Clyde Alves, Sebastian Arcelus, Kate Baldwin, Jenni Barber, Bryan Batt, Richard H. Blake, Stephanie J. Block, John Bolton, Charl Brown, Krystal Joy Brown, Danny Burstein, Haven Burton, Alan Campbell, Kathleen Chalfant, Bryan Terrell Clark, Lauren Cohn, Charlotte d'Amboise, Linda Emond, Felicia Finley, Jessie Fisher, Jonathan Freeman, Boyd Gaines, Lena Hall, Ann Harada, James Monroe Iglehart, Adam Jacobs, Nikki M. James, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Rachel Bay Jones, Andy Karl, Andy Kelso, Jeremy Kushnier, Telly Leung, Jose Llana, Lesli Margherita, Constantine Maroulis, Kyle Dean Massey, Judy McLane, Ruthie Ann Miles, Paul Nolan, Orfeh, David Hyde Pierce, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Josh Radnor, Courtney Reed, Alice Ripley, Nic Rouleau, Carrie St. Louis, Alex Sharp, Christopher Sieber, James Snyder, Jarrod Spector, Neil Starkenberg, Alton Fitzgerald White, Patrick Wilson and Tony Yazbek.

Specific items for sale at the Broadway Flea Market, other packages to be offered at the Grand Auction and additional stars appearing at the Autograph Table & Photo Booth will be announced on broadwaycares.org, on Twitter twitter.com/BCEFA and on Facebook at facebook.com/BCEFA.

Last year, the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction raised $631,222, bringing the event's 27-year total to more than $10.3 million.

The 28th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction is sponsored by The New York Times and United Airlines.