Broadway Bares

[Merboy]

It's a burlesque performance with two showings on the same night, in 2026 that is Sunday night, June 21 (why Sunday night I don't know but they should choose another night)

Tickets are now being sold.  Many say its great fun.  It's held every year to raise money for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.  I have the coffee table book.  The show is put on by choreographer Jerry Mitchell.

Has anyone here been to it before and can give us a little review of what they thought?  Thank u

[ShortCutie7]

It’s been on Father’s Day every year for as long as I can remember. I have never been, but it’s exactly what it sounds like (you can search for video clips on YouTube) and I have heard that the later showing is more risqué!

[skynyc]

I have been every year since the first year when 8 dancers strutted around the bar and took showers at the famous Splash Bar on 17th Street. It's become one of the slickest, most tightly produced shows in NY, and they raise more than a million dollars every year now. 

It's on Sunday nights because that's the dark night for most Broadway shows...many of the performers do a matinee on Sunday and then show up for the two show late-night. (They literally start rehearsing in mid-May, and have dress rehearsals on the Sunday morning.) 

As far as the risque factor for the later show...that's rather a thing of the past. Since folks won't put away their cell phones, the performers are much less eager to have their business shown to the world. But yes...in the old days, many a pastie was not applied for the late show, and there were more "slips" of the thongs. The days of the obvious arousal of some dancers (just showing off, I tell you! LOL) are pretty much gone. Yes, many of the various numbers crop up on youtube. And the BC/EFA team does share some, but I don't think they're left indefinitely. The organization does record them, however, and you used to be able to buy the DVDs at the Broadway Flea Market.

It's expensive, and the Hammerstein Ballroom main floor is standign room only, so between lining up on 34th St at 7:30 to get a good spot when they open the doors at 9:00, you end up standing for 3-4 hours. 

As for the book...when it was published, Jerry Mitchell and about thirty of the regular dancers did a publication party/book signing at the Rizzoli Bookstore on 57th Street. I love my copy...gonna go take a look at it now!