the 23rd Annual BROADWAY FLEA MARKET and GRAND AUCTION
Sunday, September 27th – ROSELAND BALLROOM
Moved from Shubert Alley and W. 44th Street due to rain.
GRAND TOTAL RAISED - $403,929!
BROADWAY FLEA MARKET AND GRAND AUCTION
FACTS AND FIGURES
64 TABLES
Funds Raised: $192,429
Representing 16 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, Lincoln Center Theatre, MTC and Papermill Playhouse, as well as tables from unions (Equity, ATPAM, United Scenic Artists, The Dramatists Guild); management offices (The Broadway League, The Araca Group; Nederlander Productions;); Playbill, BroadwayWorld.com, ABC Daytime, Grey Advertizing, The Actors Fund, Dancers Over 40 and such newcomers as Broadway Green Alliance; BroadwayImpact; Givenik; The Actors Temple and the Episcopal Actors Guild.
Top 10 Tables:
- $12,640 BROADWAY BEAT
- $ 9,771 TDF
- $ 9,663 WICKED (top B’way show table)
- $ 9,132 UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS
- $ 8,338 The BC/EFA Merchandise “Sale” Table
- $ 7,983 BILLY ELLIOT
- $ 5,427 The ARACA GROUP
- $ 5,351 TRITON GALLERY
- $ 5,173 NEXT TO NORMAL
- $ 5,112 HAIR
The Celebrity Signing Table and Photo Booth raised $14,770
The SILENT AUCTION:
Funds raised: $36,590 from 103 items
Top Silent Auction items:
- $2,450 “I Dreamed a Dream / LES MISERABLES musical phrase,
handwritten and signed by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil
- $1,475 “What I Did for Love” / A CHORUS LINE musical phrase,
handwritten and signed by Marvin Hamlisch
- $1,200 “Wicked Little Town” / HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, handwritten and signed by Stephen Trask
- $1,150 “Big Girls Don’t Cry” musical phrase, handwritten and signed by “Jersey Boys” Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli
- $1,100 “Ragtime” musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
- $1,075 “Defying Gravity” / WICKED musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Stephen Schwartz
- $1,050 “”Practically Perfect” / MARY POPPINS musical phrase, handwritten and signed by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe
- $ 825 PHANTON OF THE OPERA program, Playbill and memorabilia, signed by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- $ 800 EQUUS - front of house photo, signed by Daniel Radcliffe
- $ 750 Photo of “One” finale of A CHORUS LINE at “recording breaking performance”, signed by Michael Bennett.
The GRAND AUCTION
With auctioneer,Lorna Kelly and host Bryan Batt
Funds Raised: $175,000 from 64 lots
Top Grand Auction items:
- $7,500 VIP tickets to A STEADY RAIN - backstage with Hugh Jackman and
Daniel Craig.
- $6,000 Walk-on in WICKED
- $5,500 Celebrate the TONY AWARDS
- $5,250 VIP SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Experience
- $5,200 Walk-on in the national tour of RENT
- $4,800 Walk-on in CHICAGO
- $4.600 Walk-on in HAIR
- $4,600 The “Phantom” mask worn and signed by Howard McGillin –
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
- $4,250 VIP tickets to Bernadette Peters in Concert
- $4,000 Tickets to the opening night and party of THE ADDAMS FAMILY
CELEBRITY TABLE and PHOTO BOOTH
Funds Raised: $14,770
70 BROADWAY AND DAYTIME STARS appeared over 5 one-hour shifts to sign autographs and for photos...
...including BROADWAY’s John Stamos, Chita Rivera, Bernadette Peters, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Danny Burstein, Rebecca Luker, Jonathan Groff, Priscilla Lopez, Haydn Gwynne, Greg Jbaba, Will Chase, Christopher Sieber, Rosemary Harris, John Glover, Stephanie J. Block, Alice Ripley, Gavin Creel, Will Svensen, Constantine Maroulis, Susan Blackwell, Marin Massie, Jason Danielly, Anthony Rapp, Thomas Sadowski, Victoria Clark, Beth Leavel, Kevin Chamberlin, Kathleen Chalfant and many others…
...and from DAYTIME: Bobbie Eakes, Chrishell Strause / ALL MY CHILDREN; Billy Magnussen, Cady McLain, Colleen Zenk Pinter, Van Hansis / AS THE WORLD TURNS; Robert Newman, Marj Dusay / THE GUIDING LIGHT and others.
In 1987 the first Broadway Flea Market raised $12,000. Since then, The BROADWAY FLEA MARKET and GRAND AUCTION has raised a total of $8,161,752! ($3,242,925 has been raised from The Grand Auction)