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The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will return to New York City with collectables, experiences and stars on Sunday, October 1, 2023.

Pre-bidding on

  • live auction, and - silent auction
    items that can only be found at the #BroadwayFlea is now live. Among the items and exclusive experiences are handwritten and signed musical phrases, lunches and backstage meetings with Broadway stars, props used in performances, rare collectibles from vintage Broadway and autographed Playbills and posters from current and classic Broadway shows.

Tables from Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, theater owners and producing organizations, unions, guilds, marketing groups, ticket agencies, concessionaires and fan clubs will line West 44th and West 45th Streets. The first shows joining the lineup are & Juliet, Here Lies Love, The Lion King, Kimberly Akimbo, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Six and Sweeney Todd, plus special tables honoring The Phantom of the Opera and the 40th anniversary of the original cast of La Cage aux Folles. More participating shows will be announced in the coming weeks.

Every dollar donated during the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will help ensure a safety net of services for those in the performing arts and help provide access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more to those across the country living with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses. Last year’s event raised a record-breaking $1,043,825. Since 1987, the 36 editions of the event have raised more than $17.5 million.

Among the items are:

Lunch with Academy Award winner and esteemed Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose

  • a private meet-and-greet with Josh Groban, as well as two VIP seats to see him in the Tony Award-nominated revival of Sweeney Todd
  • musical phrases handwritten and signed by Jason Robert Brown from Parade, Stephen Schwartz from Wicked, Stephen Sondheim from A Little Night Music and more
  • a Mean Girls script signed by Tina Fey
  • a custom Harold Hill Broadway Funko POP! figurine signed by Hugh Jackman
  • show memorabilia autographed by Sara Bareilles, Christian Borle, Wayne Brady, Carol Channing, Jessica Chastain, Kristin Chenoweth, Common, Daniel Craig, Gavin Creel, Andre De Shields, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sutton Foster, Andrew Garfield, Steve Martin, J. Harrison Ghee, Joel Grey, Katharine Hepburn, Michael R. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Alex Newell, Eva Noblezada, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Hal Prince, Andrew Rannells, Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim, Phillipa Soo, Bruce Springsteen, Elaine Stritch, Lily Tomlin, Aaron Tveit, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and many more

Theater lovers around the world also will be able to digitally join in the Flea Market fun with the return of the online #FleaBay auctions on eBay. Details will be announced soon.

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