Theatre and TV stars came out to support Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS at the 24TH ANNUAL Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction yesterday, September 26!
BroadwayWorld.com was there as always, for official photo coverage and streaming live video throughout the day including the grand auction and more! The event was held outdoors in Shubert Alley and was free and open to the public. From posing with your favorite Broadway and Daytime stars 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 - Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction offered something for everyone.
The Grand Auction has always been the highlight of the Flea Market event and this year did not disappoint.
A sampling of the lots up for bidding included:
· Attend the opening nights on Broadway for La Bête, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Importance of Being Earnest, Elling, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Driving Miss Daisy, The Scottsboro Boys and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.· Daniel Craig's tank top that he wore during a performance of A Steady Rain, autographed byDaniel Craig and Hugh Jackman.
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised over $175 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
BC/EFA awards annual grants to more than 400 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of seven programs at The Actors Fund including The AIDS Initiative, The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, The Dancers' Resource and three supportive housing residences.
The Broadway Flea Market is sponsored by Continental Airlines, the official airline of BC/EFA,
The New York Times, Junior's, Discovery Times Square Exposition, A&E Television Networks, and Times Square Alliance. For more information, visit http://www.broadwaycares.org.
Food for the event was generously provided by Tony di Napoli's Times Square.
CLICK HERE to view backstage photo coverage and shots of the Flea Market booths!
Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi
Montego Glover and Chad Kimball
Dan Lauria and David Andrew MacDonald
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and Jerry Mitchell
Kate Baldwin and Bebe Neuwirth
Jordin Sparks and Kate Baldwin
Terri Colombino
Terri Colombino and Austin Peck
Cherry Jones and Bobby Steggert
Colleen Zenk and PJ Benjamin
Julie Halston and Richard Easton
Elizabeth Stanley and Levi Kreis
Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Andrea McArdle
Orfeh
Orfeh and Mandy Gonzalez
Andy Karl and Orfeh
Donna McKechnie and Vanessa Ray
Robert Britton Lyons and Donna McKechnie
Donna Murphy and Matthew Hydzik
John Tartaglia
Ann Harada and John Tartaglia
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