Market Up!

James Barbour, Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenuagh, Greg Germann, Christian Hoff, Rebecca Luker, Julia Murney, Patrick Wilson and a host of stars come out for the annual Broadway Cares Flea Market.

By Joseph Marzullo,Brian Scott Lipton • Sep 22, 2008 • New York

On Sunday, the 22nd Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, was held in Shubert Alley, raising over $496,000 for the charity. Among the many Broadway stars in attendance was James Barbour, who earned excellent reviews last week for his portrayal of lawyer Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities.

Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Boyd Gaines stopped by the famed autograph table before their matinee of Gypsy.

Here are Heidi Blickenstaff and Hunter Bell, one half of the team of the sadly soon-to-close musical [title of show].

An injured hand didn't keep Broadway diva Julia Murney from signing autographs -- or the head of good friend and Little Mermaid star Tituss Burgess.

One of Broadway's happiest and most talented couples -- South Pacific's Danny Burstein and Mary Poppins' Rebecca Luker -- were fan favorites.

Funnyman Mario Cantone -- who can be seen in the expanded DVD edition of the film Sex and the City being released on Tuesday -- clowned around with Jim Caruso, host of Broadway at Birdland and one of the Market's emcees.

The wonderful Kathleen Chalfant came by on her time off from the Yale Repertory production of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play.

The cast of the Tony-winning musical In the Heights was well represented; here are stars Robin de Jesus, Karen Olivo, Mandy Gonzalez, and Janet Dacal.

Two more members of the Heights family, the legendary Priscilla Lopez and Christopher Jackson, also attended the event.

Here are real-life sweethearts Jenny Powers (last seen on Broadway in Grease) and Matt Cavenaugh, who is rumored to be playing Tony in the upcoming revival of West Side Story.

Greg Germann, best known for his work on TV's Ally McBeal, recently joined the cast of the hit comedy Boeing-Boeing.

Tony winner Christian Hoff will soon return to Broadway in the title role of the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Rodgers & Hart's Pal Joey.

Xanadu star Tony Roberts shared a moment with Broadway veteran Robin Strasser, best known for her Emmy Award-winning work as Dorian Lord on ABC's One Life to Live.

Brian Kerwin, another member of the One Life to Live cast, co-stars in the Tony-winning play August: Osage Country.

Finally, here's Patrick Wilson, who's knocking them dead as Chris Keller in the Broadway revival of All My Sons and currently stars on the big screen in the hit film Lakeview Terrace.