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'Broadway Bares XVII' Featured on Logo's CBS News, June 15

By: Jun. 15, 2007
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"Broadway Bares XVII: Myth Behavior" will be featured starting tonight, Friday, June 15 at 7:57 PM on Logo's regular newsbreak "CBS News on Logo." The segment will rebroadcast throughout the weekend.  Logo can be found locally on Time Warner Cable Channel 155, check listings in other areas.

The segment, produced by Logo's Itay Hod, will feature "Broadway Bares" director, Denis Jones, along with "Bares" cast members Leslie Kritzer (Legally Blonde) and former "Bares" poster boy Matthew Risch (Legally Blonde).  The segment will also feature exclusive footage of Kritzer and Risch as they rehearse "Hades," one of the numbers to be seen in this year's "Bares." 

The show will be held this Sunday, June 17 at Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street) for two performances only (9:30 PM and midnight). "Broadway Bares" is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

All of Mount Olympus will tremble at this year's edition of 'Broadway Bares' which will feature a pantheon of gods and goddesses (and a few mere mortals for them to toy with). 'Broadway Bares' will celebrate Greek mythology with the 'Broadway Bares' twist that makes the event one of the hottest of the summer. From the chiseled physiques of Narcissus and Poseidon to the deadly alluring Medusa to the debauched Bacchus and the legendary Amazons, a veritable clash of the titans will take place on stage at the Roseland Ballroom as hundreds of Broadway's hottest bodies bare it all for BC/EFA," state press notes.

The show is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, executive produced by Tony Awardâ-winner Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray) and directed by Denis Jones (Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

Since its first incarnation in 1992, the 16 previous editions of "Broadway Bares" have collectively raised almost $4 million to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.BroadwayCares.org or by calling (212) 840-0770 x 268.







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