Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction 2021

Fans gleefully filled the streets of New York City’s famed Theater District, coming together in celebration and rejuvenation at the 35th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The daylong community reunion, which featured 36 tables filled with collectible keepsakes, 144 record-breaking silent auction lots of unique memorabilia, 54 live auction experiences and treasures, plus private video chats with a dozen of Broadway’s brightest stars, raised a remarkable $753,321.

After an all-virtual event in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person event came roaring back to take over Shubert Alley and West 44th and West 45th Streets in midtown Manhattan. The day also included several online components to allow fans not in New York City to again be a part of the day.

The outstanding grand total will help provide lifesaving medication, health care, nutritious meals and emergency support for those living with HIV/AIDS, struggling with COVID-19 or facing other life-threatening illnesses in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

Fans and collectors hunted for unique theatrical treasures from tables representing Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, theatre owners and producing organizations, unions, guilds, marketing groups, ticket agencies, concessionaires and fan clubs.

Among the shows represented with merchandise at flea market tables were Aladdin, American Utopia, Beetlejuice, Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Frozen, Hadestown, Hamilton, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Mean Girls, Waitress and Wicked.

The tables at the 35th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction raised $281,692, led by the single-highest table total in flea market history to date: $42,147 raised by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM).

The day concluded in the Times Square pedestrian plaza with the live auction, which raised an impressive $288,050.

The most popular live auction lot of the day was lighting designer Jules Fisher's 1973 Tony Award and Nomination Certificate for Pippin, which went for $16,200. A virtual meet and greet with Patti LuPone and VIP tickets to Company were won with a $15,000 bid, as was a VIP experience with The Shubert Organization that includes a private, guided tour of The Shubert Archive in the penthouse above Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre.

A nonet of limited-edition prints by theater illustrator Al Hirschfeld and signed by the stars featured in them raised a collective $57,100, led by Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in Sunday in the Park with George, which went for $11,000. The other signed prints feature Betty Buckley in Cats, Cher in Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Joel Grey in Cabaret, Nathan Lane in The Lisbon Traviata, Donna McKechnie in A Chorus Line, Chita Rivera in The Rink, Bruce Springsteen and Sir Patrick Stewart in The Tempest.

The live auction was led by Dear Evan Hansen alums Will Roland and Sky Lakota-Lynch.

Broadway favorites Todd Buonopane and Jennifer Cody co-hosted the silent auction throughout the day in Shubert Alley, which raised a record-breaking $183,579, blowing past the previous record of $128,452 set in 2019.

The top-selling silent auction lot was a typewriter used by Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy from Hanks’ personal collection, which raised $10,000. Other popular lots were a “Defying Gravity” musical phrase handwritten and signed by Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz for $8,000; a Mean Girls lunch tray and cast photo signed by the original Broadway cast for $7,000; and a full set of charcoal sketches drawn onstage by Jake Gyllenhaal during Sunday in the Park with George for $4,100.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.

For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org, at facebook.com/BCEFA, at instagram.com/BCEFA, and at twitter.com/BCEFA

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