Video: Go Inside the 2023 Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction!

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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World. We're in the heart of Athena District

for the 36th annual Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market and Grand Auction

And let's have a look. ♪�

We have an incredible lot and incredible fans out here that are going to bid their highest

for these wonderful exclusive items only here at the Broadway Flea and Grand Auction

And every half hour we get new items, so keep coming back

This is amazing because, first of all, these crowds get bigger and bigger every year

And we're also seeing more diversity of who's coming from all over the world here

Not just because they're coming from all over the world, but they understand what Broadway is and they get this

This is incredible. It's my first year doing this. It's my first year on Broadway and this organization

does so much good that I didn't even know about. So the fact that I get to be a small part of it

is life changing for me. We have a bunch of show props that are all signed

by the four Tony Award nominees and our Tony Award winner, Jay Harrison, we love dearly

This is a ticket that we use every one in the ensemble touches it at some point

It's signed by Angie Schworer and Natasha Velt Williams. Our Minnie and Sue

We've got clothes and sheet music by Scott and Mark that are signed by the entire cast

and our director, Case Nicola. This is a candle from the Phantom of the Opera

This was an upstage Wright candle that was loaded in in 1988 and it left a few months ago

when we started the renovation on the Majestic. Theater history. This is theater history

You can't get this anywhere else and this is the last one. How much is this? $666

And it all goes to BCEFA. That is a candle from Phantom

We have lots from Phantom. We have part of the proscenium from Phantom

We have the stage lights from the Majestic. We have some signs from the side of the theater

We've got some real theater history. Come find it. We were actually, our whole company was part of the very first

event to start Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. So to be back now after all these years

looking fabulous I may say, right? We would do pageants and David Scala

as Paige Turner was our hostess, and we started them downstairs. We did the Queen of Hearts and then the Easter Bonnet Pageant

and the next year we moved it up to the stage of the palace and we invited all the other shows in

And Paige was our host for that and she is our hostess, Master of Ceremonies today

for the Grand Auction in Times Square. The Grand Auction has various lots

and lots of fabulous memorabilia from La Cage. And also we are celebrating, like I said earlier

our 40th anniversary. So there's over 50 members of the original Broadway

West Coast, First National and Second National that have come to be a part of it

And we have lots of fun surprises for you. So I hope somebody will be around to see it

You never know who you're going to run into in Shubert Alley. Tell everybody who you are

I'm Michael Urie. Hi. And I'm Andy Shapiro. Let's talk about how glorious this day is already

Did you start signing already? I'm finished and I'm just... I can't leave

It's such a beautiful day. Everyone's so happy. This place makes everyone happy

This event makes everyone happy. You know, whether you are participating like I was

or whether you're giving money to meet people and get merchandise or sign things

you're supporting Broadway Cares. So it's a really special, beautiful day. �