The annual Broadway Bares burlesque charity occasion is again, and this yr, New York’s best stage actors and dancers are getting ready to take audiences to Pleasure Park.
Yearly, the music-filled occasion is staged twice on the identical night time, for one night time solely. And this yr, with its Pleasure Park theme, ticket-holders are in for a thrill trip in a Broadway fantasy land. Watch a teaser trailer for the occasion under.
Greater than 190 dancers and particular visitors will take the stage for 2 performances at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Sunday, June 18, at 9:30 p.m. and midnight. Ticket costs begin at $75 and can be found at broadwaycares.org/bares. The present is produced by and advantages Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS (BC/EFA).
Earlier particular visitors on the present have included such notable stage and music stars as Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana DeBose, Adam Lambert, Cyndi Lauper, Vanessa Williams and Pentatonix’s Kirstin Maldonado. Particular visitors for Broadway Bares: Pleasure Park will probably be introduced nearer to the present date (whereas some might stay a shock till showtime).
For the reason that present’s launch in 1992, Broadway Bares has generated greater than $21 million for Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS. Final yr’s version raised $1.9 million.
Broadway Bares: Pleasure Park will probably be directed by Laya Barak and co-directed by Kellen Stancil. Jonathan Lee is affiliate director. Govt producers are creator and two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell and longtime Bares director and performer Nick Kenkel. (In June, Mitchell will obtain the 2023 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award in recognition of his excellent dedication and contributions to BC/EFA and for greater than three many years of volunteer service via the humanities.
Andrew Eccles
Broadway Bares is one in all many charitable occasions produced by BC/EFA annually. Amongst BC/EFA’s different fundraisers: Broadway Bets (arising on Might 22), Fireplace Island Dance Competition (July 14-16), Broadway Barks, Broadway Flea Market & Grand Public sale, Broadway Run, Easter Bonnet Competitors, Broadway Backwards, Crimson Bucket Follies and Hudson Valley Dance Competition. Based on BC/EFA, the group helps folks throughout the nation to obtain lifesaving drugs, well being care, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency monetary help. Since 1988, BC/EFA has raised greater than $300 million for important companies for folks dwelling with HIV/AIDS, fighting COVID-19 and going through different vital diseases in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. BC/EFA is the one largest monetary supporter of the important social service packages on the Leisure Neighborhood Fund (previously The Actors Fund), together with the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Girls’s Well being Initiative and The Friedman Well being Heart for the Performing Artis. BC/EFA additionally awards grants to greater than 450 AIDS and household service organizations nationwide.
