Pre-Bid for BC/EFA's 2015 Flea Market & Grand Auction -Walk-on Roles, VIP Seats, Memorabilia, Opening Tickets and More!

Everything you love about Broadway -- unique showbiz treasures, the opportunity to meet your favorite performers and the chance to bid on exclusive backstage experiences -- will come together as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents the 29th Annual BROADWAY FLEA MARKET & GRAND AUCTION on Sunday, September 27, 2015. And BroadwayWorld can report that pre-bidding is now open!

Visit broadwaycares.org on dozens of auction items, which will be available throughout the day at the Grand Auction's silent and live auctions.

Fans and stars of this fall's most anticipated shows will spend the day celebrating their love of theatre at the free annual outdoor market set for Times Square, West 44th Street and Shubert Alley in the heart of New York City's famed theatre district. The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction (#bwayflea) takes place from 10 AM - 7 PM.

The auction offers exclusive theatre experiences that cannot be found anywhere else: walk-on appearances in Broadway's biggest hits, opening night tickets, handwritten and signed musical phrases and much more.

Among the lots up for pre-bids are:

- Priceless walk-on roles in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Chicago, Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, LES MISERABLES, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked, with more to be announced.

- VIP house seats and backstage visits to meet the stars of Aladdin, An American in Paris, The Book of Mormon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Finding Neverland, Fiddler on the Roof, Fun Home, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The King and I and Sylvia, with more to be announced.

- One-of-a-kind show memorabilia signed by Jason Alexander, Pearl Bailey, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Judy Kuhn, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Idina Menzel, Patricia Morison, Kelli O'Hara, Neil Patrick Harris, Chita Rivera, Carole Shelley, Barbra Streisand, Gwen Verdon and more.

- Musical phrases handwritten and signed by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens; Scott Frankel and Michael Korie; Berry Gordy; Carole King; Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick; Cyndi Lauper; Robert Lopez and Kristin Anderson Lopez; Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone; Bill Russell and Henry Krieger; Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and more.

- Opening night tickets and party passes for Broadway's hottest shows of the new season, including Allegiance, China Doll, Fiddler on the Roof, Misery, Old Times, On Your Feet, School of Rock, She Loves Me and Tuck Everlasting, with more to be announced.

Pre-bidding on silent and live auction lots will continue through 6 PM Eastern on September 25. Then, on September 27 at the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, silent auction lots will open every half hour beginning at 10 AM for in-person bidding; the live auction begins at 5 PM. Broadway and TV veteran Bryan Batt and Broadway Cares' iconic auctioneer Lorna Kelly will again entertainingly handle hosting duties for the live auction. This year, actors Stephen Wallem (Nurse Jackie) and Kirsten Wyatt (A Christmas Story) will co-host the silent 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, collectible Playbills and one-of-a-kind gems will line West 44th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Among the shows scheduled to have tables this year are Aladdin, Allegiance, Avenue Q, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, The Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Matilda The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Something Rotten! and Wicked, with more to be announced.

The always popular Autograph Table and Photo Booth will welcome more than 60 actors from Broadway's best shows. The complete list of participants will be announced Tuesday, September 15.

In preparation for the biggest day for Broadway fans, Broadway Cares embarked on a journey to find Broadway's biggest fans, whose creative Broadway selfies will appear on one of the biggest screens in Times Square on the weekend of the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction. From hundreds of submissions, five lucky winners were chosen: Kyle Donahue, Rares Andrew Fota, Cierra Josephine Roach, Jacob Sanchez and Kelsey Valentin. These big Broadway fans will be featured in a video that will appear beginning Friday, September 25, on the 110-foot-tall digital screen above the Express store on the northeast corner of Broadway and 46th Street.

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

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.

Last year, the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction raised $713,986, bringing the event's 28-year total to more than $11 million.

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 more than $250 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states.