Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS will present the 21st Annual Easter Bonnet Competition on Monday, April 23 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, April 24 (2 PM) at the Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street) to benefit BC/EFA. The Easter Bonnet Competition, now an annual Broadway tradition, is a two-day event that features the companies of more than 20 Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions singing, dancing, and donning specially created Easter bonnets.
The Competition's 2007 opening number has been created by choreographer
Christopher Gattelli and the team behind the Off-Broadway hit
title of show,
Hunter Bell and
Jeff Bowen.
Press notes state, "The Easter Bonnet Competition is the culmination of six intensive weeks of fundraising efforts by Broadway and Off-Broadway company members as well as numerous productions currently on national tour. Curtain speeches, autographed poster and program sales, auctions, and cabaret performances bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars from audiences prior to the competition. The winner of the competition will be the company that raises the largest amount of money for BC/EFA. A second award is granted to the company with the best bonnet design and presentation. Awards are also presented to the Broadway Play, National Tour and Off-Broadway production raising the most money for BC/EFA."
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) is the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fund raising and grant making organization. Since it's founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $130 million for critically needed services for people with AIDS, HIV, or HIV-related illnesses.
Tickets prices are $350 for VIP Orchestra (front and center); $200 Priority Orchestra (Center); $100 Middle Center and Side Orchestra; $40 Rear Center and Side Orchestra; $20 Rear Side Orchestra and Mezzanine. Tickets are available now at
www.broadwaycares.org or by calling (212) 840-0770, ext. 268.
