As soon as once more, the annual Broadway Bares charity burlesque profit present not solely raised temperatures, but additionally raised a bevy of cash for a very good trigger.
Over two sold-out exhibits on June 23 at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, greater than 200 dancers strutted their stuff and helped generate $2,259,134 for Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) – essentially the most a Bares occasion has raised because the present’s launch in 1992.
The 2024 installment of Broadway Bares had a Las Vegas theme, dubbed Hit the Strip, and showcased 223 dancers and performers from 19 Broadway and off-Broadway exhibits from this season. Greater than 600 volunteers and 38 stage managers helped convey the occasion to life, the place 3,000 viewers members have been in attendance for every of the night time’s two exhibits. The manufacturing was directed by Kellen Stancil, and produced by BC/EFA.
Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip cashed in with its Sin Metropolis theme, because the present staged numbers with a Vegas aptitude, together with vignettes impressed by the movie Showgirls and Vegas icons Elvis Presley and Liberace.
The collected installments of Bares have raised $28.7 million through the years for BC/EFA.
Based on BC/EFA, the group has awarded greater than $300 million for important providers for folks with HIV/AIDS and different important sicknesses throughout the US. BC/EFA additionally helps the social providers applications on the Leisure Neighborhood Fund, has offered annual grants to greater than 450 AIDS and household providers organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and has awarded one-time humanitarian grants to offer emergency help throughout the U.S. and around the globe.
