LIFEbeat will honor World AIDS Day on
December 1st with Bid 2 Beat AIDS, a massive eBay auction featuring
nearly 1000 rare and autographed items from stars in theatre, music,
film and television. Proceeds benefit LIFEbeat, an organization
providing HIV/AIDS information to millions of young people annually. The
auction will begins at 3pm EST on December 1st with a special "1 Day Only"
auction item: a pair of tickets to the official star-studded New York premiere of the film version of The Producers on December 4th and the party that follows.For
theater fans, the auction will features a Playbill from the opening night of
Broadway's Rent signed by the original cast members in addition to
numerous items signed by the cast of the film version (including signed
menus from "La Vie Boheme" Life Cafe). The producers of Spamalot have
donated a limited edition tote bag signed by all the stars of the show.
There are tickets to the opening night performance and party for the
forthcoming play Dog Sees God featuring stars from "Lost," "The O.C." and
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer." There are also two Avenue Q"Ultimate
Collector" packages featuring rare memorabilia; one is from Broadway
and the other is from Las Vegas. Playwright Terrence McNally has
donated a wine glass hand-painted for him by Chita Rivera for the opening night of The Visit.
Other
shows represented include Wicked, Doubt, Chicago, The Pillowman, Tales
of the Allergists Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Absurd Person
Singular, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Raisin in the Sun, Hello
Dolly, Fool For Love, Angels in America, Naked Boys Singing, Spend
Spend Spend and Dance of the Vampires. There are also signed items
from theater performers including Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli, Brooke
Shields, Joan Rivers, Diddy, Molly Ringwald, Darlene Love, Britney
Spears, Deborah Harry, Dick Cavett, Bea Arthur, John Cameron Mitchell,
Parker Posey, James Earl Jones, Harvey Fierstein, Huey Lewis, Rue
McLanahan, Billy Crudup and many more.The auction will also feature hundreds of film, TV and music items and memorabilia.Sponsors include MTV, Borders Books & Music, Sirius Satellite
Radio, Yahoo!, Vespa and Chan Luu. For more on the auction, visit www.Bid2BeatAIDS.com.
