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Heavy Petting

Laura Bell Bundy, Raul Esparza, Cheyenne Jackson, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, David Hyde Pierce and a slew of stars join hosts Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters for Broadway Barks 9!

By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton · Jul 16, 2007  · New York

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(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)







Broadway Barks 9!, the annual pet adopt-a-thon in Shubert Alley, was held on Saturday, July 14 and both the crowds and the stars came out in full force! Here are the event's perennial hosts, Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters flanking one of the afternoon's very special guests, Angela Lansbury.













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(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)








Many of the Great White Way's greatest stars took time to pose with some cute canines, such as Legally Blonde's Laura Bell Bundy...









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...2007 Tony Award nominee Xanthe Elbrick, heading up shortly to star in the Berkshire Theatre Festival's Mrs. Warren's Profession, with Tony winner Michael Cerveris...









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...Xanadu leading man Cheyenne Jackson, who's taking a short break this week from the musical to star in Red Eye of Love at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, Connecticut...










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...the multi-talented Bebe Neuwirth, who's always willing to come out for a good cause...












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...2007 Drama Desk winner Raul Esparza, who will play the Stage Manager in a special one-day reading of Our Town at the Williamstown Theatre Festival on August 17...











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...Mary Poppins stars Daniel Jenkins, Jane Carr, Ashley Brown, and Gavin Lee...










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...Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, who stopped by between the matinee and evening performances of Curtains...











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...and Legally Blonde co-stars -- and real life married couple -- Orfeh and Andy Karl, who made a new friend.














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Among the other celebrities who participated in the event were The Drowsy Chaperone's JoAnne Worley and Beauty and the Beast's Trevor Braun...













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...those scene-stealing gals from Xanadu, Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman...














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...and television favorites Paul C. Vogt and Jerry Mathers, currently starring as Edna and Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray.









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Broadway Barks was a family affair for quadruple Tony Award winner Audra McDonald -- soon to star in the ABC TV series Private Practice -- who brought daughter Zoe Donovan...










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...Xanadu leading lady Kerry Butler and her daughter, Segi...













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...and husband and wife Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, who are heating up the stage of the Ambassador Theatre eight times a week in Chicago.




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