Les Miserables - 1988 - US Tour Articles Page 20

The 20th Annual Flea Market & Grand Auction held on Sunday, September 24, raised a grand total of $505,832 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). Since its debut in 1987, the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction has raised $6,551,418.

Sweeney Todd star Patti LuPone will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on May 22nd for a benefit concert of 'The Lady with the Torch'

On April 24 and April 25, the New Amsterdam Theater will host the 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition. What started out in 1987, backstage at the Palace Theater, raising 18 thousand dollars, has grown into an event which has raised over 20 million dollars (in total) for BC/EFA. Here is a special look at Bonnets past featuring such favorites as Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Idina Menzel, Laurie Beechman, Nancy LaMott, Jerry Lewis, Jane Krakowski, Gwen Verdon, Tom Hulce, Elaine Stritch, Johnny Mathis, Barbara Cook, and more.

A nation-wide search has delivered a cast handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hal Prince and rich in Broadway experience for Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular, which begins preview performances in June at The Venetian Resort • Hotel • Casino in Las Vegas.

The North American tour cast of Les Miserables makes its final engagement in St. Louis at the Fox Theatre, July 18-23.

Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS has put up a number of new theatre-related items for auction on eBay

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Disney has announced that Tarzan will being previews on March 24, to open on May 10, 2006.

The Chicago Sun-Times has reported that director Lonny Price is mulling over the prospect of a Ravinia Festival production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone

Reported here back on April 27th, the news is now official that Lupone will star alongside Michael Cerveris for the show's fall opening.

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Donna Lynne Champlin is likely to star as Pirelli and Fogg in the Sweeney Todd Revival.

Reported first here on BroadwayWorld, Michael Cerveris is now confirmed, and Patti LuPone is said to be next for the Sweeney Todd revival.

An eBay auction will celebrate the DVD release of the Phantom of the Opera film by the selling of over a hundred items

Broadway singer Glenn Rainey of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will perform classic R&B hits on December 13th, 2004 in an original show called 'Blue-Eyed Soul' at the Triad theatre on West 72nd Street at 9:15pm. This special one night only event will be a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

With an overwhelming response, tickets to BroadwayWorld.com's 'Standing Ovations' sold out in its first weekend on sale. Proceeds will go to BC/EFA, and the show will be hosted by Michael Musto and Scott Nevins. Performers currently scheduled to appear include (in alphabetical order): James Barbour, Laura Bell Bundy, Kim Cea, Susan Egan, Melissa Errico, Felicia Finley, Alison Fraser, David Friedman, Mandy Gonzalez, Erin Leigh Peck, Andrea McArdle, Raymond McLeod, Marc Shaiman, William Tost, Eddie Varley, Max von Essen, Bill Weeden, and more special guests and surprises! The benefit will be directed by Jamie McGonnigal, with musical direction by Mark Hartman.