Celebrity guests including Jeremy Jordan, Bernadette Peters, Steve Kazee, Cheyenne Jackson, Harvey Fierstein, Laura Osnes, Jan Maxwell, Bebe Neuwirth and more will appear at the autograph table of the 26th annual Broadway Flea Market. The event, which benefits Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, is scheduled for September 23 in Shubert Alley. Further participants will be announced at a later date.
Shows expected to have tables at the Flea Market include Bring It On, Evita, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Naked Boys Singing, Newsical the Musical, Newsies, Once, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark and Wicked.
The event concludes with the Grand Auction. This year's prizes include walk-on roles and backstage experiences at The Book of Mormon, Bring It On, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, Newsies, Once, Rock of Ages, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark and Wicked. Other prizes including visits to the sets of TV's Modern Family, NCIS: LA and Smash, shirts worn by Hugh Jackman and Ricky Martin during their Broadway runs, show memorabilia signed by Daniel Radcliffe, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Nick Jonas, Hal Prince, Neil Patrick Harris, Sutton Foster and more. Theater fans can also bid on the chance for lunch with Angela Lansbury, opening night VIP tickets and party passes to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Anarchist, Dead Accounts, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kinky Boots and Matilda, with more to be announced.
In 2011 the Flea Market raised $547,658 for BC/EFA.