Broadway BaresDetails Revealed for This Year's Steamy Broadway BaresBroadway Bares, Broadway's sexiest night of the year, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will be presented June 21 at 9:30 PM and midnight at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
By
Andrew Gans
April 10, 2015
This year's fundraiser, titled Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, a show inspired by the Golden Age of Broadway, "will feature 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 will be 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. "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."
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.
#BwayBares, the unrivaled evening of sexy striptease that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is turning 25 and will welcome back to the director's chair Jerry Mitchell "Full Out", Bares' creator and executive producer. The 2015 edition will fill NYC's Manhattan Center Events - Hammerstein Ballroom & Grand Ballroom on Sunday, June 21.For more information or to buy tickets, please visit https://broadwaycares.org/bares2015In a lavish and thrilling extravaganza, Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque will feature 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.