BC/EFA Flea Market and Auction Raises $476,917

The 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction held on Sunday, September 26 raised a grand total of $476,917 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA).

This year, a total of 72 tables raised a collective $239,342. The booth that raised the most money was hosted by the Broadway production of Wicked ($19,834). The Autograph Table and Celebrity Photo Booths, emceed by Jim Caruso, raised $9,765.

Stars who donated their time and support to the tables included Kate Baldwin, Bryan
Batt, PJ Benjamin, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Mario Cantone, Kathleen
Chalfant, Kristin Chenoweth, Terri Colombino, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Jason
Danieley, Ellen Dolan, Richard Easton, Malcolm Gets, Mandy Gonzalez, Montego
Glover, Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Sean Hayes, Jessica Hecht, Hunter Ryan
Herdlicka, Matthew Hydzik, Gregory Jbara, Cherry Jones, Andy Karl, Chad Kimball,
Levi Kreis, Dan Lauria, Aaron Lazar, Judith Light, Robert Britton Lyons, Lorna
Luft, David Andrew MacDonald, Andrea McArdle, Marin Mazzie, Jerry Mitchell,
Julia Murney, Donna Murphy, Bebe Neuwirth, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O’Hara, Denis
O’Hare, Orfeh, Austin Peck, Anthony Rapp, Vanessa Ray, Alice Ripley, Carole
Shelley, Jordin Sparks, Elizabeth Stanley, Bobby Steggert, John Tartaglia,
Patrick Wilson, Julie White, and Colleen Zenk.

This year’s Silent Auction included 114 items and raised $55,925. The top item sold was an A Little Night Music “Soon” musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Stephen Sondheim that went for $3,500. Other top earners were a Wicked “For Good” musical phrase, handwritten and signed by Stephen Schwartz that went for $2,900, and a 2009 Broadway Season photo taken by Mark Seliger for Vanity Fair, signed by all participants including Geoffrey Rush, Joan Allen, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeremy Irons, James Gandolfini, Matthew Broderick, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Lane, Susan Sarandon, Bill Irwin and more, that went for $2,000.

This year’s grand auction, which featured longtime BC/EFA auctioneer Lorna Kelly and actor Bryan Batt, featured 44 “lots” and raised $126,650. The top-selling one was a walk-on role in the Broadway show Wicked that went for $16,500. Other top earners were opening night tickets and party passes for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe that went for $10,000 and a tank top worn by Daniel Craig in A Steady Rain, signed by Craig and Hugh Jackman, that went for $6,500.

For TheaterMania’s photo coverage of the event, click here.