(AGENPARL) – Wed 23 April 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
There’s No Place Like
Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out
Broadway’s Burlesque Spectacular Returns
with Wizard of Oz-inspired Flair
at 9:30 pm and Midnight on Sunday, June 22
Produced by and Benefiting
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
(New York, NY – April 23, 2025) The yellow brick road will get a tantalizing, technicolor twist when Broadway Bares: Come Out Come Out, this year’s Oz-ified spin on Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ highly anticipated striptease spectacular, makes its electrifying, heart-pounding debut.
Click your heels (or heels off) as 200 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers erupt into full-out, larger-than-life production numbers on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in two Wizard of Oz-inspired performances at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out will enchant audiences with a bold celebration of courage, heart and brains – which all look best with a little less clothing. Get swept up in a whirlwind of electrifying talent, unapologetic queer joy and the magic and mischief of Oz. Broadway’s hottest performers will strip down and step into their power, proving that true strength lies in community – the real Emerald City.
Broadway Bares is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The beloved annual community celebration serves more than fierce looks and dance moves, providing meals and medication, health care and hope to people across the country living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses and personal crises.
The wonderful world of Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out will open its gilded green doors for two performances: at 9:30 pm and midnight. Starry special guests will be announced at a later date.
Tickets for Broadway Bares (#BroadwayBares) start at $75. VIP tickets feature unlimited specialty cocktails and reserved seating. The always popular “Stripper Spectacular” package includes a premium reserved table seat at either show, a backstage tour and an invitation to a private cocktail party hosted by Jerry Mitchell, Broadway Bares’ Tony Award-winning creator and executive producer. The ”Barest Insider Experience” includes a premium reserved table seat to either performance, a backstage tour and access to the final “un-dress” rehearsal the evening of the show.
Kellen Stancil, a Broadway Bares veteran and resident dance supervisor for the national tour of The Lion King, returns to direct after making his solo Bares directorial debut last year. Joining Stancil as associate director is Paula DeLuise. Mitchell and Nick Kenkel, a longtime Bares director and performer, are executive producers.
The choreographers bringing their expertise to the Emerald City, in addition to Stancil and DeLuise, are Mike Baerga, Marie Rose Baramo, Phil Colgan, Armando Farfan Jr., Billy Griffin, Reed Luplau, Sarah Meahl, Justice Moore, Rachelle Rak, Michael Anthony Sylvester and Marcus Williams.
Last year’s standing-room-only edition took audiences to the naughty neon lights of Vegas as Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip raised a record $2.26 million, bringing Bares’ lifetime total to more than $28 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Broadway Bares receives generous support from presenting sponsor M∙A∙C Viva Glam and lead corporate sponsors United Airlines, the official airline of Broadway Cares, ViiV Healthcare and The Westin New York at Times Square.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the philanthropic heart of Broadway, is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theater community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has awarded more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), including The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, the HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative. Broadway Cares provides annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance. At times of crisis, Broadway Cares also awards one-time humanitarian grants to provide emergency aid across the US and around the world.
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