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By: Feb. 10, 2011
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BROADWAY BACKWARDS 6, the one-night-only event held Monday at the Longacre Theatre, raised a record-breaking $281,243 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (the Center). This year's total far surpassed last year's previous record total of $186,780.

BROADWAY BACKWARDS is the only Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian community, our friends and families.  BROADWAY BACKWARDS re-interprets the songs of musical theater by featuring women singing songs originally written for men and men singing songs written for women. By keeping the lyrics intact, including the pronouns, each song takes on an entirely new dimension. It's Broadway in a whole new key.

Broadway Backwards Creator Robert Bartley directed and choreographed with co-choreographer/associate director Kathryn Kendall and musical direction by Chris Haberl. The creative team also included lighting designer Paul Miller, costumer designer Philip Heckman and musical supervisor Patrick Vaccariello

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 over $195 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States. 

BC/EFA also awards annual grants to more than 400 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of seven programs at The Actors Fund, including The HIV/AIDS Initiative, The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic and more. 

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center provides innovative social service, youth programs and activities, educational and cultural/recreational programs for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of all ages. Since its inception, the Center has been the only LGBT-identified resource delivering a continuum of substance abuse prevention and treatment services to LGBT communities in and around NYC. More than 3,000 clients use Center Counseling, Advocacy, Recovery and Education (Center CARE) annually, which offers low-cost/no cost professional counseling and social services for substance abuse prevention and related HIV/AIDS, mental health and gender identity issues. More than 1,000 adolescents participate in our LGBT youth prevention program, the Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Program. In September 2007 the Center opened Center CARE Recovery, the first and only licensed outpatient substance abuse treatment program for LGBT communities in New York State.

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F. Murray Abraham - 'Hello, Young Lovers' from THE KING AND I

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Clay Aiken - 'Home' from THE WIZ

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Brooks Ashmanskas & Denis O'Hare - 'Marry the Man Today' from GUYS AND DOLLS

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Tony Yazbeck - 'The Music and the Mirror' from A CHORUS LINE

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Bebe NeuwirthJennifer Dunne, Robyn Hurder, Suzanne Hylenski, Pilar Millhollen, Dana Moore & Tonya Wathen - 'All I Care About is Love' from CHICAGO

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Tituss Burgess - 'Stars and the Moon' from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD

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Len Cariou - 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' from PAL JOEY

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Robin De Jesus and Bobby Steggert - 'The Trolley Song' from MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

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Lilias White - 'Some Enchanted Evening' from SOUTH PACIFIC

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Reed Kelly, Kenway Hon Wai K. Kua, Patrick O'Neill, Alfie Parker Jr., Jody Reynard & Matt Steffens - 'Cell Block Tango' from CHICAGO

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Debra Monk - 'On the Street Where You Live' from MY FAIR LADY

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Hinton Battle with Valerie Dowd, Kathryn Kendall, Charis Leos and Kristin Maloney - 'Lida Rose / Will I Ever Tell You? from THE MUSIC MAN

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Jan Maxwell, Farah Alvin & Jason Tam with: Amy Decker, Kurt Domoney, Matt Gibson, Jennifer Leigh Gottlieb, Joe Grandy, Tim McGarrigal, Michael-Kennen Miller, Masaya Palmer, Danielle Erin Rhodes & Jeannine Elizabeth Yoder - 'Summer Nights' from GREASE

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Jan Maxwell, Farah Alvin & Jason Tam with: Amy Decker, Kurt Domoney, Matt Gibson, Jennifer Leigh Gottlieb, Joe Grandy, Tim McGarrigal, Michael-Kennen Miller, Masaya Palmer, Danielle Erin Rhodes & Jeannine Elizabeth Yoder - 'Summer Nights' from GREASE

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Jan Maxwell - 'Summer Nights' from GREASE

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Karen Olivo and Mandy Gonzalez - 'When You're Home' from IN THE HEIGHTS

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Ward Billeisen, Colman Domingo & Jose Llana - 'You Could Drive a Person Crazy' from COMPANY

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Brian Charles Rooney and the Ensemble in 'One Halloween' and 'But Alive' from APPLAUSE

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Alan Cumming with Reed Kelly, Alfie Parker, Jr., Jody Reynard and Matt Steffens 'Don't Tell Mama' from CABARET

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