Broadway Bares to Present Top Bottoms of Burlesque This Summer

Broadway Bares, the Great White Way's annual striptease event benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will celebrate its 25th edition on June 21, with Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque. More than 150 male and female dancers are set to perform in two shows at 9:30pm and midnight at Hammerstein Ballroom.

Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque is a show inspired by the golden age of Broadway. The performance "will feature a cast of colorful characters for every desire and fantasy — from devilish divas to charismatic casting directors, luscious lyricists to studly stagehands."

Jerry Mitchell, the show's Tony Award-winning creator and executive producer, will helm the event. Mitchell is known for directing and choreographing the Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, and he is directing the upcoming Broadway musical On Your Feet!

Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque will be codirected by Nick Kenkel, who also directed last year's Broadway Bares: Rock Hard! and Broadway Bares: United Strips of America in 2013.

"A lot of things can happen in 25 years, but who would've thought that seven guys dancing on a bar could grow into an annual event that has raised so much to help people living with HIV and AIDS," Mitchell said in a statement. "Broadway Bares has done that. And this year we're going full out, maybe even with a top hat and our version of tails, ’cause if, baby, you're a bottom, you're the top."

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. Since 1988 BC/EFA has raised more than $250 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.

For tickets and more information, click here.