News27th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction Presented Sept. 22Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents the 27th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction Sept. 22 from 10 AM-7 PM along West 44th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue) and in Shubert Alley.
By
Andrew Gans
September 22, 2013
Andrea McArdle at the 2012 Broadway Flea Market
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN
The annual event allows theatre fans the chance to purchase unique showbiz treasures, meet their favorite cast members and bid on exclusive backstage experiences.
Dozens of items are up for bid in the Grand Auction including the following:
A private lunch with stage-and-screen legend Angela Lansbury, winner of five Tony Awards and a three-time Oscar and 18-time Emmy nominee.
A T-shirt worn onstage by Tom Hanks during his Tony-nominated Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, autographed and dated by Hanks.
A private meeting with Broadway producer Hal Prince in his Rockefeller Plaza office.
Walk-on roles in Chicago, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Motown The Musical, Once, The Phantom of the Opera and Rock of Ages.
VIP visits to TV's top drama "NCIS: Los Angeles," perennial fashionista favorite "Project Runway" and comedy stalwarts "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Saturday Night Live."
Silent auction lots will be opened every half hour from 10 AM-3:30 PM Sept. 22; the live auction begins at 5 PM.
Autographed props and wardrobe pieces from A Chorus Line, Cinderella, Grace, The Little Mermaid, Pippin, The Wedding Singer, Wicked and more.
Official posters autographed by dozens of participants in past editions of Tony Awards, Gypsy of the Year, Easter Bonnet Competition and Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction.
Playbills, posters, CDs and other theatre memorabilia signed by the companies of The Book of Mormon, Evita, Lucky Guy, Merrily We Roll Along, The Nance, Three Days of Rain, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and more.
More than 50 tables full of Broadway memorabilia, trinkets, Playbills and one-of-a-kind treasures line West 44th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Among the shows scheduled to have tables this year are Annie, Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Matilda The Musical, Motown The Musical, Naked Boys Singing, NEWSical The Musical, Newsies, Once, Pippin, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, The Trip to Bountiful and Wicked.
Last year, the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction raised a record-breaking $681,892, bringing the event's 26-year total to $9,870,369.
A mobile-friendly map of the Broadway Flea Market tables as well as complete lists of all silent and live auction lots are available for smartphone users at broadwaycares.org/flea.
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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 $225 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
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The Star-Studded 26th Annual Broadway Flea Market
The Star-Studded 26th Annual Broadway Flea Market
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presented the 26th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction 10 AM-7 PM Sept. 23. Items up for grabs at the 2012 event included walk-on appearances in Newsies, Once and more; lunch with Angela Lansbury; and shirts worn by Hugh Jackman and Ricky Martin. Read the Playbill.com story.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
