NewsBroadway Bares 23 Brings in Record-Breaking Sum for Broadway CaresBroadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, which was held June 23 at Roseland Ballroom and featured 220 of New York’s sexiest dancers, raised an all-time record high, bringing in $1,430,241 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
By
Andrew Gans
June 25, 2013
Lesli Margherita and Christopher Sieber
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN
With this year’s record total, the 23 editions of Broadway Bares have raised more than $11.3 million for Broadway Cares. The annual event started in 1992 and featured seven dancers stripping on a bar, raising about $8,000.
This year’s edition of Broadway Bares was directed by Nick Kenkel; the fundraiser was created by Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, who serves as executive producer. It was produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS led by producing director Michael Graziano.
In United Strips of America, Max von Essen and Michael Cusumano portrayed a bi-coastal couple who set out on separate, sexy journeys through a dozen states.
Judith Light, this year's Tony Award winner for Featured Actress in Play for her role in The Assembled Parties, saluted the dancers and applauded the event's sponsors. Bravo's Andy Cohen also introduced the winners of the individual stripathon fundraisers. *
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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Christopher Sieber, Lesli Margherita, Billy Porter, The Skivvies, Kate Rockwell and More Backstage at Broadway Bares 23
Christopher Sieber, Lesli Margherita, Billy Porter, The Skivvies, Kate Rockwell and More Backstage at Broadway Bares 23
Broadway's sexiest night of the year has arrived: The 23rd annual edition of Broadway Bares, entitled Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, was presented at Roseland Ballroom June 23 at 9:30 PM and midnight to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Read the Playbill.com story.
