Broadway CaresBroadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque Struts Its Stuff Tonight in NYCBroadway Bares, Broadway's sexiest night of the year, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is presented June 21 at 9:30 PM and midnight at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
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Andrew Gans
June 21, 2015
Photo by Andrew Eccles
This year's fundraiser, titled Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, a show inspired by the Golden Age of Broadway, features "a cast of colorful characters for every desire and fantasy. Broadway’s iconic personalities — from devilish divas to charismatic casting directors, luscious lyricists to studly stagehands — will combine the naughtiness of burlesque with the razzle-dazzle of Broadway," according to BC/EFA.
This year, Broadway Bares welcomes back to the director’s chair its Tony Award-winning founder and executive producer, Jerry Mitchell. Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque is co-directed by Nick Kenkel.
"A lot of things can happen in 25 years, but who would've thought that seven guys dancing on a bar could grow into an annual event that has raised so much to help people living with HIV and AIDS," Mitchell said in an earlier statement. "Broadway Bares has done that. And this year we're going full out, maybe even with a top hat and our version of tails, ’cause if, baby, you're a bottom, you're the top."
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The Very Best of Broadway Bares 2011–2014
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More than 150 of the hottest male and female dancers in New York City will take the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom on June 18 for the 27th edition of Broadway Bares.
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Opening number, 2011
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Beth Leavel, 2011
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Nikka Graff Lanzarone, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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David Hyde Pierce, 2011
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Beth Leavel and David Hyde Pierce, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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Opening number, 2011
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Patina Miller, 2011
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Judith Light, 2011
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The cast, 2011
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Nikka Graff Lanzarone, 2011
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Robin de Jesus, 2011
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Dancers, 2011
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Joshua Buscher, 2011
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Beth Leavel, 2011
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Danny Calvert, Laurie Sheppard, Alena Watters, Rashidra Scott, Rosie Closi and Scott Guthrie, 2011
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Patina Miller, 2011
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Jessie Green, Sara Antkowiak, Ashley Arcement and Amy Brewer, 2011
Last year's Broadway Bares: Rock Hard! raised $1,386,105. To date, the 24 editions of Broadway Bares have raised more than $12.6 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Tickets start at $50 and can be purchased online at broadwaycares.org. VIP tickets include open bar and reserved table seats from special viewing areas. Also available are the exclusive "Stripper Spectacular" package, which includes a reserved table seat at either show, admission to a private cocktail party with Mitchell, a backstage tour and more; and the "Producers' Circle," which includes the "Stripper Spectacular" offerings plus unprecedented access all weekend long.
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.
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