BC/EFA Annual Report 2004 - Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

BROADWAY 

CARES/ 

EQUITY 

FIGHTS 

AIDS 

ANNUAL 

REPORT 

2004

THANK 

YOU! 

42nd STREET A FEW GOOD MEN DANCIN’ A RAISIN 

IN THE SUN AIDA AVENUE Q BEAUTY AND THE 

BEAST BECKETT/ALBEE BEYOND RECOGNITION 

BLUE MAN GROUP BOOBS, THE MUSICAL THE BOY 

FROM OZ CABARET CHICAGO DE LA GUARDA 

FAME FIDDLER ON THE ROOF FLOWER DRUM SONG 

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY THE FULL MONTY GOLDA’S 

BALCONY GYPSY HAIRSPRAY I AM MY OWN WIFE 

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE 

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR LES MISÉRABLES THE 

LION KING LISTEN TO MY HEART LITTLE SHOP OF 

HORRORS LYPSINKA MAMMA MIA MENOPAUSE, 

THE MUSICAL MORE MOVIN’ OUT NAKED BOYS 

SINGING NINE OMINUM GATHERING THE PHANTOM 

OF THE OPERA THE PRODUCERS RENT THE 

RETREAT FROM MOSCOW SARAH, SARAH STOMP 

STRICTLY ACADEMIC TABOO TAKE ME OUT THE 

THING ABOUT MEN THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE 

TWENTIETH CENTURY URINETOWN THE VIOLET 

HOUR WICKED WINTERTIME WONDERFUL TOWN 

The Easter Bonnet from the cast of 42nd Street; Five “wild boys” present the Bonnet from Movin’ Out; Nathan Lane makes the audience appeal from the stage of The St. James 

as Producers’ costars Matthew Broderick and Angie Schworer look on in support; Idina Menzel sings “Help Is On the Way” to close the Bonnet Competition; Hugh Jackman, 

Bernadette Peters, and Harvey Fierstein present the awards at The Gypsy of the Year Competition; just a few of the boys from Broadway Bares; our own Ziegfeld girl, Doris Eaton 

Travis, celebrates her 100th birthday on stage at the Bonnet Competition.

oadway cares/equity fights aids 

ANNUAL 

REPORT 

2004 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

how a dollar makes a difference 2 

letter from the president Paul Libin 3 

letter from the executive director Tom Viola 4 

bc/efa grant-making 5 

the actors’ fund of america 6 

national grants program 12 

national grant totals by state 16 

international grants 31 

events 33 

national support 44 

thespian fundraising 45 

bc/efa on ebay 46 

retail outreach 47 

corporate support 48 

broadway delivers! 49 

dancers responding to aids (dra) 50 

classical action: performing arts against aids 52 

the maestro program 54 

the angels campaign 55 

major donors 57 

dra donors 62 

the colleen dewhurst society 63 

financial statements 64 

board of trustees and credits 72 

Producer Rosie O’Donnell joins the cast of Taboo at Gypsy of the Year; Heather Headley in concert at The New Amsterdam; The Broadway Inspirational Voices; 

Joey McIntyre joins his cast in selling signed posters from Wicked at The Broadway Flea Market; the divine Charles Busch as Mame and the divinest Marian Seldes as 

his/her sidekick Vera Charles in the reading of Auntie Mame. 

table of contents 

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BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS 

HOW A DOLLAR 

MAKES A 

DIFFERENCE 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the nation’s leading i ndustry-based, nonprofit AIDS 

fundraising and grant-making organization. BC/EFA is the ongoing, committed response from 

the American theatre community to an urgent worldwide health crisis. By drawing upon the 

talents, resources and generosity of this community, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related 

causes across the United States. Since its founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $85 

million for critically needed services for people with AIDS, HIV or HIV-related illnesses, and 

their families. 

The fundraising and grant-making success of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the result of tens 

of thousands of gestures of generosity that come together as one phenomenal show of support. This is never more apparent than in 

the audience appeals done twice a year for two six-week periods by the Broadway, off-Broadway and national touring shows prior to 

the annual Gypsy of the Year and Easter Bonnet Competitions. Here is how a single dollar becomes what in 2004 was a record-breaking $6.7* 

million campaign. 

A theatergoer is moved by the curtain speech made by a member of the cast after the curtain call. In support of BC/EFA or 

simply because it was such a thrill to hear the show’s star informally talk to the audience about our work, he or she puts ONE 

DOLLAR into the collection buckets manned by other members of the company and BC/EFA volunteers. In an average Broadway 

house of 1,800, this means the following: 

one generous gesture $ 1 

the amount raised at one performance $ 1,800 

there are 8 performances a week (x 8) $ 14,400 

33 other shows are making the same appeal (x 34) $ 489,600 

appeals are made for six weeks (x 6) $ 2,937,0600 

twice a year (x 2) $ 5,875,200 

Audience appeals are the backbone of BC/EFA’s yearly fundraising efforts. Of course, money is raised in other ways: through 

direct mail and major donor campaigns, corporate sponsorships, merchandise sales, CareTix and CareCards, as well as from ticket 

sales for one-time special events. Together all of these efforts allowed BC/EFA to raise over $13 million in FY 2004. But without a 

doubt, the foundation of this success is built on audience appeals – or to be more specific, the thousands of times one person reaches 

into pocket or purse and drops $1 in a volunteer’s bucket. 

* Note: FY 2004 will forever be known as the “Year of Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ.” During both this fiscal year’s GYPSY OF THE 

YEAR and EASTER BONNET Competitions, Hugh led his exuberant cast in raising $632,998 and $539,058 during these two six-week periods for a truly grand 

total of $1,172,056. This is certainly the most any one show has ever raised in a single year and in no small way accounts for the record-breaking success of this year’s 

two appeal periods. 

Cast members from The Producers in the lobby of the St. James Theatre; Hugh Jackman led the way as the company of The Boy from Oz raised $1,172,056 

for BC/EFA in just one season; scores of cast members and BC/EFA volunteers held buckets like this during two six-week appeal periods; 

cast members from Hairspray in the lobby of The Neil Simon. 

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A LETTER 

FROM 

THE PRESIDENT 

MAY 2005 

Dear Friends, 

The fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, was another banner year for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The amount of 

money raised in support of our cause grew by an unprecedented 27 percent over the previous year – from $10.6 million in 2003 to 

$13.6 million this year! 

This phenomenal increase in the success of our fundraising efforts solidifies Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids’ position as the 

leading industry-based AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization in the United States. More importantly, it provides greater 

resources from which we are able to support major social service programs for industry professionals at The Actor’s Fund of America 

and distribute to direct service providers at more than 500 AIDS service organizations throughout the country through our National 

Grants Program. 

Funding cuts in federal programs across the board make the ongoing financial support of Broadway Cares more important than 

ever to those organizations on the front lines of providing care for those in need. We take great pride in representing the 

commitment of the American theatre community in addressing these needs. 

I remain awestruck by the incredible amount of cooperation we receive from countless individuals, corporations and industry 

professionals who make our success a reality. In addition to the actors making audience appeals on our behalf, we rely on the 

dedication and tireless efforts of stage managers, stagehands, ushers, wardrobe personnel and company managers, to name but a few. 

We also count on the philanthropic support of corporations and individuals as well as the continued goodwill of the ticket-buying 

public at large who have supported our programs this year. 

I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude and congratulations to the BC/EFA trustees and to the entire BC/EFA staff for all of the 

dedicated teamwork that went into making 2004 a benchmark year. 

We, the board, staff and volunteers of BC/EFA appreciate your taking the time to read about our accomplishments in this report. 

I hope you take as much pride as I do in realizing what a tremendous difference we were able to make together! 

Sincerely, 

Paul Libin 

President 

Avenue Q’s Stephanie D’Abruzzo and Kate Monster at Nothin’ Like a Dame; Mario Cantone, Billy Porter, and Julie Halston lead the opening of Gypsy of the Year; 

Mitchel David Federan as “a rather adult” Peter Allen during The Boy from Oz presentation at Gypsy of the Year; our banner proudly hanging in the house 

of the beautiful New Amsterdam Theatre, home of The Easter Bonnet Competition; cast members from The Producers outside the St. James at The Broadway Flea Market. 

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A LETTER 

FROM 

THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

MAY 2005 

July, 2005 

Dear Friends: 

I am very happy and proud to report that FY 2004 (October 1, 2003 – September 30, 2004) was the most successful year of 

fundraising and grant-making in Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ history. If I were an artist – I would work in collage. The staff 

around here laughs because soon after an event I like to find the time to put up as they say “another one of his collages” made up of 

dozens of event photos of all sizes and all overlapping on the cupboards in the kitchen. 

There is something about taking in so much at once - seeing how every piece becomes a part of the whole. How a shot of the biggest, 

most colorful scene, when taped next to one of an almost incidental moment (not nearly as bright), creates something new and unique 

when seen side-by-side. The blur of images, this smattering of colors becomes in total more than any one shot could by itself. It moves. 

I go on like this because, in my heart I know that BC/EFA is at its best, its strongest and its most useful – a collage. 

Members of every union and non-union members. Folks who have been in the business for decades, someone who just landed 

their first job. Major donors and corporate sponsors as well as the 13-year-old girl from Long Island who sent us a bundle of checks 

totaling a couple hundred bucks from her bat mitzvah and the senior citizen in Florida who forwarded a $15 check from the direct 

mail appeal and jots shakily on the response card, “I wish it could be more.” 

BC/EFA is audience appeals that raise millions from the efforts of over 50 Broadway, off-Broadway, and national touring shows 

and the high school drama club teacher who sends us a check for $322 donated in cash by his cast of Our Town. 

Stars, writers, directors, choreographers, gypsies, actors and those most dear to my heart, stage managers. All the folks working 

behind the scenes, front of house and in the pit who in being willing for six weeks, twice a year to leave the theatre 15 minutes later 

than usual make our invaluable audience appeals possible. Producers and theatre owners who “give permission”; press agents who 

“ask”; company managers who make it work “within a labyrinth of rules”; concessionaires who “turn a generous blind eye” and 

another favorite group, the doormen and women who welcome us, delivering messages, requests and all those signed posters. 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS exists, to quote a masterful writer, because of “each and every one.” It is this blur of 

enthusiasm, generosity, good behavior, and idiosyncrasies that is both BC/EFA’s great blessing and subtle strength. What follows are 

many facts and figures. Lists, charts and graphs, as well as lots of event pictures and photos of the people and organizations you’ve 

helped BC/EFA assist. These are our shared history. Someday, someone will call it our shared legacy. 

But don’t be lulled into feeling too good. These are difficult days. The fabric of our social safety net, built of over decades of 

bi-partisan political action, is today being deliberately frayed at the same time we find more and more individuals and families across 

our nation in crisis and need. 

I could write a second letter about those in power who choose to exclude rather than embrace, those eager to demonize others 

in order to ensure power from the unquestioning. Those who hoard rather than share, spin rather than tell the truth. Smirk rather 

than smile. But that is not for now. 

Now, I close simply with this: Thank you. I particularly want to express my deep appreciation to BC/EFA’s Trustees – who watch 

our back – and to the BC/EFA staff who make up its muscle and spine. From our major sponsors to each individual donor - for 

being a part of BC/EFA’s unique collage you have my heartfelt gratitude. And to more accurately quote the brilliant Charles 

Dickens... “God bless us; every one!” 

Sincerely, 

Tom Viola 

Executive Director 

Sandra Joseph and Hugh Panara, stars of The Phantom of the Opera, with a most adoptable star of Broadway Barks; Michael McElroy leads the Broadway Inspirational 

Voices; cast members from Fiddler on the Roof at The Broadway Flea Market; Christopher Sieber gets “hit on” in front of a full house at The New Amsterdam by Avenue Q’s 

“Rod” – with a hand from Q star John Tartaglia; Isabel Keating and Stephanie J. Block, stars of The Boy From Oz, at the celebrity table at The Broadway Flea Market. 

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THE BC/EFA’S 

GRANT-MAKING HISTORY 

1987-2004 

EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS was founded in October 1987 by the Council of Actors’ Equity Association. 

Money raised through the efforts of Equity theatre companies across the country was specifically earmarked for The Actors’ Fund 

AIDS Initiative. BROADWAY CARES was founded in February 1988 by members of The Producers’ Group. Money raised was 

earmarked to be awarded to AIDS service organizations across the country, including Equity Fights AIDS. 

In May 1992, BROADWAY CARES and EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS merged to become BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS 

AIDS. The Board of Trustees of this newly established not-for-profit fundraising organization assumed the missions of the 

previously separate organizations and continues to fund the social service work of The Actors’ Fund and to award grants twice a year 

to AIDS and family service organizations nationwide. 

Unlike most other nonprofit grant-making organizations, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS must raise every single dollar of 

our philanthropic budget each year in order to fulfill our grant-making mission. In turn, BC/EFA works hard to ensure that the 

money raised is spent carefully and wisely on programs both at The Actors’ Fund and at hundreds of social service agencies across the 

country where these hard-earned dollars can have maximum impact. An impressive 76 cents of every dollar raised by BC/EFA goes 

directly towards these causes. 

BC/EFA’s grant-making has two emphases. The first is The Actors’ Fund of America. BC/EFA currently supports six major 

programs at The Fund, each of which provides social services, case management and emergency financial assistance to entertainment 

industry professionals and performing artists who are in crisis or dealing with a variety of problems including HIV/AIDS. The 

National Grants Program is our second major grant making effort. Through this program BC/EFA makes grants to hundreds of 

community-based AIDS and family service organizations across the country. A detailed description of how we distribute funds and 

the programs we support is contained in the following pages. 

A HISTORY OF GIVING 

ACTORS’ FUND NATIONAL GRANTS TOTAL 

GRANTS PROGRAMS GRANTS 

EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS 1987-may 1992 $ 2,775,250.00 $ 2,775,250.00 

BROADWAY CARES 1988-may 1992 $ 1,067,000.00 $ 1,067,000.00 


may-december 1992 $ 634,000.00 $ 771,780.00 $ 1,405,780.00 

1993 $ 1,654,000.00 $ 1,184,119.00 $ 2,838,119.00 

1994 $ 1,758,000.00 $ 676,404.00 $ 2,434,404.00 

1995 $ 1,791,000.00 $ 707,916.00 $ 2,498,916.00 

1996 $ 2,010,000.00 $ 1,400,549.00 $ 3,410,549.00 

1997 $ 2,247,500.00 $ 1,342,200.00 $ 3,589,700.00 

1998 $ 2,471,000.00 $ 1,711,819.00 $ 4,182,819.00 

1999 $ 2,700,000.00 $ 3,039,841.00 $ 5,739,841.00 

2000 $ 2,955,336.00 $ 3,033,566.00 $ 5,988,902.00 

2001 $ 2,829,500.00 $ 3,238,765.00 $ 6,068,265.00 

2002 $ 2,732,000.00 $ 2,689,676.00 $ 5,421,676.00 

2003 $ 3,022,500.00 $ 3,115,969.00 $ 6,138,469.00 

2004 $ 3,360,500.00 $ 4,437,338.00 $ 7,797,838.00 

BC/EFA GRANT-MAKING TOTAL 

1987-2004 $ 32,940,586.00 $ 28,416,942.00 $ 61,357,528.00 

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THE ACTORS’ FUND 

OF AMERICA 

The Actors’ Fund of America provides for the welfare of all who earn their living through employment 

in the entertainment industry. The stage manager, dancer or theatrical press agent with AIDS and no health insurance, the actor 

looking to make a transition into a second career, the retired costume designer having difficulty living on social security and unclear 

about his Medicaid benefits, the stage carpenter, company manager or actress facing a crisis around an issue of addiction, the 

musician in need of supportive housing – all are part of the entertainment industry and all can find assistance through The Actors’ 

Fund. 

The Actors’ Fund continues the industry tradition of “taking care of its own,” forged more than a century ago when attitudes of 

prejudice against people in show business prevailed. The Actors’ Fund served as a catalyst for reducing that discrimination and 

integrating theatre professionals into the social, political, and economic aspects of their communities. 

Through its partnership with The Actors’ Fund, BC/EFA touches the lives of thousands of entertainment professionals living 

with HIV/AIDS, as well as those coping with a variety of other health issues and life challenges. 

THE AIDS INITIATIVE 

The collaboration between BC/EFA and The Actors’ Fund’s AIDS Initiative is a model for how an industry can respond with 

effectiveness and compassion to the AIDS crisis. The AIDS Initiative provides a full spectrum of essential supportive services, 

including emergency financial assistance (for basic necessities such as rent, food, health insurance, and non-reimbursable medical 

expenses); case management referrals to other sources of community and public assistance, benefits advocacy, vocational retraining, 

counseling, and support groups for people with HIV/AIDS and their partners, families, and caregivers. 

Of the $3,392,000 awarded to The Actors’ Fund by BC/EFA in 2004, $1,151,335 was distributed as direct financial assistance 

to 552 clients living with HIV/AIDS in 22 states through Actors’ Fund offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Of this, 

$484,373 (42%) was provided for rent payments and $366,293 (32%) for health insurance payments. In addition to underwriting 

direct financial assistance, BC/EFA’s total AIDS Initiative grant of $2,100,000 supports personnel, administrative costs, volunteer 

needs and other expenses associated with client case management. 

the actors’ fund of america 

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“MY PARTNER AND I WERE BOTH IN THE BUSINESS. WE KEPT HIS ILL- 

NESS A SECRET BECAUSE WE WERE SCARED. AIDS TAKES EVERYTHING 

FROM A PERSON – THEIR JOB, THEIR SECURITY, EVEN THEIR HOME. 

BUT BC/EFA HELPED TAKE THAT FEAR AWAY AND, THROUGH THE 

ACTORS’ FUND AIDS INITIATIVE, GAVE US IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

ABOUT OUR RIGHTS, BENEFITS AND OPTIONS THAT MADE DEALING 

WITH THE ILLNESS AND ULTIMATELY THE EMOTIONAL PAIN OF LOSING 

HIM POSSIBLE TO BEAR.” 

ACTORS’ FUND AIDS INITIATIVE CLIENT 

“IN MY WILDEST DREAMS, I COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED SUCH AN 

OUTSTANDING AND SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIP AS BC/EFA AND THE 

ACTORS’ FUND AIDS INITIATIVE.” 


AIDS INITIATIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BY CATEGORY 

RENT $ 453,302 40% 

HEALTH INSURANCE $ 423,603 34% 

UTILITIES AND $ 139,225 12% 

LIVING EXPENSES 

PSYCHOTHERAPY $ 26,630 3% 

ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT $ 24,464 2% 

DENTAL $ 16,641 1% 

OTHER $ 93,144 8% 

Changes in the AIDS environment have had a significant impact on clients. The effectiveness of protease inhibitors, available 

since 1996, has had major service implications as The AIDS Initiative shifts from helping people with a fatal disease to assisting those 

with a chronic, manageable one. In the past, The AIDS Initiative often prepared clients, even asymptomatic ones, for a more 

dependent level of functioning – a change that would most likely be imminent for HIV+ individuals. Advances in treatment allow 

many to now focus on preparing for independence by helping them build their skills and learn more about the supportive network 

that can help them remain highly functional. 


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“I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE. I HAVE 

SPENT MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE IN THE THEATRE AND HAVE FOUND SO 

MANY IN THE PROFESSION TO BE COMPASSIONATE AND CARING, EAGER 

TO ASSIST IN TIMES OF TROUBLE. YOUR SUPPORT HAS HELPED ME TO 

RESTORE MY DIGNITY.” 


This change, however, has had a profound effect on the number of clients served by The AIDS Initiative. Over the past ten years, 

from 1994–2004, The Actors’ Fund AIDS Initiative has experienced a dramatic decrease in the number of AIDS-related deaths, 

from almost 50% of its clients in 1994 to 5% in 2004. While that is encouraging news, the battle is far from over. During this same 

time, the number of AIDS Initiative clients has more than doubled from 216 in 1994 to 552 in 2004, including many new clients. 

BC/EFA funding represents 70% of The AIDS Initiative’s budget. BC/EFA continues to work closely with The Actors’ Fund to 

provide leadership, coalition building, and the fundraising necessary to keep the promise that we will “take care of our own” for as 

long as AIDS is with us. 

2004 AIDS INITIATIVE CLIENT ENROLLMENT 

NUMBER OF CLIENTS PERCENTAGE 

actors’ equity* 260 47% 

sag* 190 34% 

aftra* 153 28% 

non-union 145 26% 

agma-agva 53 10% 

iatse 32 6% 

local 802 musicians 19 3% 

united scenic artists, wardrobe, directors’ guild, 

writers’ guild, dramatists’ guild, and ssd&c 27 5% 

total clients in 2004 552 

*based on multiple membership 

COMPARISON OF 2003/2004 CLIENT ENROLLMENT 

EASTERN WESTERN MIDWEST TOTAL 

2003 2004 2003 2004 2003 2004 2003 2004 

TOTAL CLIENTS 387 382 180 151 14 19 581 552 

new cases 37 38 26 16 4 6 66 60 

GENDER 

male 363 363 173 143 14 17 550 523 

female 24 19 7 8 - 2 31 29 

2004 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 

EASTERN WESTERN MIDWEST TOTAL 

$857,661 $273,918 $19,756 $1,151,335 

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PHYLLIS NEWMAN WOMEN’S HEALTH INITIATIVE 

The Actors’ Fund established the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative (PNWHI) in 1996 to provide a safety net for women 

in the entertainment industry coping with critical health concerns. The Women’s Health Initiative dedicates a range of resources 

solely to addressing the health needs and concerns specific to women, providing direct services and financial assistance to many 

women who are often without health insurance. In 2004, the Initiative helped 356 clients confront breast, cervical and ovarian 

cancers, domestic violence, chemical dependency, mental health concerns, and other conditions. 

The comprehensive nature of the Women’s Health Initiative’s case management approach encompasses employment, economic, 

and other factors that impact each client’s ability to fight for her health with maximum success. Caseworkers are effective at helping 

women deal with difficulties triggered by medical conditions and the subsequent challenges around financial, psychological and 

family issues. They also stay involved with clients on an ongoing basis and provide the support and referrals they need to best cope 

with these pressing issues. Counselors offer vital assistance in treatment and recovery, applying for benefits, filing insurance claims, 

coordinating childcare, and devising financial plans. 

Support groups offered by PNWHI provide a place where women can come together to offer and receive support around issues 

ranging from managing chronic physical and mental health conditions to aging in the industry, as well as anti-violence and family 

issues. The Women’s HIV Outreach and Education Program offers comprehensive services for women in the entertainment industry 

concerned about safer sex, HIV, or other sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, the Women’s Health Initiative provides an 

extensive resource library, and access to a vast network of women’s healthcare providers, research studies, and other resources. 

In 2004, PNWHI clients received social services ranging from case management to individual counseling, to assistance in 

applying for benefits and coordinating childcare, and were provided with $219,000 in essential financial assistance. An impressive 

227 mammograms and 104 gynecological exams were provided at no charge to women in “in the business” without adequate health 

insurance at The Actors’ Fund’s Hirschfeld Free Clinic at The Aurora on West 57th Street and Tenth Avenue. BC/EFA provided 

$450,000 to support the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative in fiscal year 2004 – up from $210,500 in 2003. 

“HAPPILY THE MAMMOGRAM WAS NEGATIVE. NOW THAT I AM 

EMPLOYED, PLEASE ACCEPT THE ENCLOSED AS A DONATION TO HELP 

ANOTHER WOMAN HAVE A MAMMOGRAM. THANK YOU FOR FUNDING 

SUCH A WONDERFUL SERVICE. NO ONE SHOULD USE LACK OF 

INSURANCE AS A REASON NOT TO BE EXAMINED.” 

ACTORS’ FUND WOMEN’S HEALTH INITIATIVE CLIENT 


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THE AL HIRSCHFELD FREE HEALTH CLINIC 

In a situation similar to one that took place in 1987, when The Actors’ Fund created The AIDS Initiative in concert with the 

establishment of funding support from Equity Fight AIDS, in 2003 The Actors’ Fund established The Al Hirschfeld Free Health 

Clinic with an initial grant of $300,000 from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 

Dedicated to the memory of the famed Broadway caricaturist who died in January 2002 just short of his 100th birthday, The 

Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic was initially located in three small offices on the 2nd floor of The Aurora, adjacent to The Colleen 

Dewhurst Community Rooms. 

In 2004, BC/EFA provided an outright grant of $325,000 to The Actors’ Fund for the operation of The Hirschfeld Clinic. 

In June 2004, an additional one-time grant of $300,000 was made to The Fund to pay for The Clinic’s renovation and move to 

the 4th floor of The Aurora Residence where it now occupies a suite of offices and examination rooms taking up half the entire floor. 

This expansion enables Dr. Jim Spears and his staff to serve double the number of clients who otherwise would lack access to adequate 

medical care. 

The Hirschfeld Clinic was launched to address the very clear, immediate needs of members of the entertainment community 

who are uninsured or underinsured. People who work in the entertainment industry have a high-uninsured rate. They work in 

uncertain careers and may not make medical care a priority, ignoring symptoms, concealing diagnoses, and putting off treatment. 

With the contributed services of a corps of physician volunteers under the fulltime direction of Dr. Spears and working in 

collaboration with the Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons, The Hirschfeld Clinic provides necessary medical 

services and works to prevent illness and emergency room visits that result from neglecting health care. 

The clinic provides primary and specialty care, health screenings, and patient education. Lab testing provided through the clinic 

is free to uninsured patients. The clinic is open five days a week and has a physician on-call even when closed. Primary care includes 

routine preventive medical care, ongoing management of medical problems, and urgent sick visits. A primary care doctor provides 

specialty care following an evaluation. Then a referral is made to a specialist – whenever possible, to a volunteer specialist at the clinic. 

Preventative care includes flu vaccinations, mammograms, prostate exams, breast examinations, tuberculosis and diabetes screening, 

blood pressure and cholesterol testing, and vision screening. 

At a series of annual health fairs offered in partnership with New York Presbyterian Hospital and Better Wellness and You 

(BWAY), the clinic provides diagnostic screenings on a broader scope, including blood glucose levels, blood pressure measurements, 

blood cholesterol levels, and mammograms to hundreds of health fair participants. 

The Hirschfeld Clinic physicians are sensitive to these health issues and aware of the warning signs of neglect, malnutrition, 

substance abuse, and mental health concerns. If needed, eligible patients are also referred to The Actors’ Fund social service 

programs, through which they may receive individual counseling, referrals, and financial assistance toward living expenses. Many 

individuals who receive social services and case management at The Actors’ Fund first made contact at an initial visit to The 

Hirschfeld Clinic. 

BC/EFA considers its support for The Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic to be an important new priority in the catalogue of services 

offered by The Actors’ Fund. 

In 2004, doctors at The Hirschfeld Clinic saw 951 patients, providing a total of 1,716 client visits in such areas as dermatology, 

family and general medicine, infectious diseases, and internal medicine. 


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THE ACTORS’ WORK PROGRAM 

As AIDS Initiative clients with longer life expectancies were shifting their focus from dealing with an immediate critical illness 

to managing a chronic condition, their needs evolved to include back-to-work issues. With this in mind, the AIDS Training and 

Education Project (ATEP) of The Actors’ Work Program (AWP) was created by The Actors’ Fund in 1998 to prepare AIDS Initiative 

clients to either return to work or participate in meaningful activity outside the home. Counselors work with clients responding well 

to protease/anti-viral regimens to help them deal with the important implications of suddenly increased life expectancies, including 

the challenge of returning to the workplace, both inside and outside the entertainment industry. 

Many people with AIDS considering a return to the workplace in a non-performing capacity lack the resources necessary to 

make such a career change. They must also consider the impact such a decision will have on issues such as health insurance and 

entitlements, as well as the limitations imposed by side effects of their medications. ATEP counselors work with clients to assess 

their health status, interests, and skills; to design individualized action plans; and to identify appropriate educational, volunteer, 

and employment opportunities. Counseling, tuition assistance, and referrals to community resources help ATEP clients achieve 

these goals. BC/EFA supported the Actors’ Work Program’s AIDS Training and Employment Project with $185,000 in 2004 – up 

from $170,000 in 2003. 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES 

Recognizing that an affordable, safe, and supportive place to live is the foundation of every person’s ability to fight for and 

maintain his or her health, BC/EFA has been a long-time supporter of The Actors’ Fund’s affordable housing initiatives. From 1997 

to 2001, BC/EFA provided $750,000 of support to The Aurora Residence in New York City, a 30-story apartment building 

providing 178 units of supportive housing for people with HIV/AIDS, seniors, and low-income working professionals. 

From 1998-2002, BC/EFA provided $250,000 of support to The Palm View Residence in Los Angeles, a 40-unit garden 

apartment complex that provides low-cost supportive housing to people with AIDS. The Palm View, which also has an on-site 

resident services coordinator, is a collaborative project between The Actors’ Fund, the West Hollywood Housing Corporation, 

Housing for Entertainment Professionals, and funders like BC/EFA. 

PHYSICIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ARTS 

Although Physician Volunteers for the Arts has not been a part of the services provided by The Actors’ Fund since 2002, BC/EFA 

continues to provide financial assistance for its programs helping the Broadway theatre community. In 2004, a $17,000 grant from 

BC/EFA helped Dr. Barry Kohn and PVA provide 1,500 flu shots backstage at Broadway shows, in the offices of theatre-related 

organizations, as well as to seniors and those with compromised health issues at Actors’ Equity for the general membership. We thank 

Dr. Kohn for also extending his services to The Actors’ Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, and to clients at New York’s Callen- 

Lorde Community Health Clinic. 


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NATIONAL GRANTS 

PROGRAM 

Active since 1987, BC/EFA’s National Grants Program has become one of the largest of its kind in the 

United States. A report published by Funders Concerned About AIDS showed that BC/EFA ranked sixth in the nation in terms of 

grant dollars disbursed for HIV/AIDS, just behind The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Ford Foundation, and ahead 

of such longstanding philanthropic powerhouses as the Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and the 

California Endowment, among others. This achievement is a result of the rapid growth in our fundraising, and as a result, in our 

grant-making, over the past several years. 

From the outset, BC/EFA’s grants program has been fast, simple, and efficient. A concise two-page application allows us to make 

disbursements twice a year to hundreds of community-based organizations, an unusual feature among top AIDS grant-makers, and 

one that we have learned over the years is meaningful to relatively small organizations. The majority of these grassroots organizations 

operate on bare-bones budgets, but still manage to have significant impact on their own communities. 

The National Grants Program for Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) at BC/EFA attempts to address the ongoing and 

unmet needs of these AIDS and family service organizations. Because AIDS is not just a single disease, but a combination of epidemics 

exacerbated by discrimination and poverty, our grants in this category are geared to those organizations that are providing case 

management, food, housing, transportation, emergency financial assistance, emotional support, and non-reimbursable and 

emergency medical expenses. 

In 2004, BC/EFA’s National Grants Committee awarded grants totaling $3,235,000 to over 564 AIDS and family service 

organizations in 49 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. (See the list of agencies by city and state, beginning on page 16). 

In 2002, a subset of the National Grants Program, called simply National Grants II, was created to allow BC/EFA to support, 

at a higher level, organizations serving large metropolitan areas or doing advocacy work that impacts the entire network of AIDS 

service providers, many of which have received financial support through BC/EFA’s longtime grants program for more than a decade. 

In 2004, BC/EFA awarded an additional $340,000 to 20 nationally recognized AIDS service and advocacy organizations 

through National Grants II. 

national grants program 

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“THREE YEARS AGO A GRANT FROM BC/EFA HELPED US PURCHASE A 

FORD WINSTAR VAN, THE BACKBONE OF OUR TRANSPORTATION PRO- 

GRAM. THE RECENT GRANT FROM BC/EFA WILL COVER THE COSTS OF 

TRANSPORTING OUR RESIDENTS TO MEDICAL, DENTAL AND COUNSEL- 

ING APPOINTMENTS AND RECREATIONAL EXCURSIONS THIS YEAR. 

THANKS FOR RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCESS TO TRANS- 

PORTATION FOR CLIENTS NOT LIVING NEAR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. 

YOUR SUPPORT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.” 

AIDS COMMUNITY RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION 

DURHAM, NC 

“HUGS TO ALL WHO WORK SO HARD TO MAKE OUR FUNDING 

POSSIBLE.” 

HOUSTON CHALLENGE FOUNDATION 

HOUSTON, TX 

NATIONAL GRANTS II 

March 2004, $340,000 awarded to 121 organizations 

CITY NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS AMOUNT 

WASHINGTON, DC 6 $75,000 

AIDS Action Foundation, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Family, Global Network of People with AIDS – North America, 

National Association of People with AIDS, National Minority AIDS Council, Whitman-Walker Clinic 

NEW YORK, NY 8 $135,000 

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Funders Concerned About AIDS, GMHC, God’s Love We Deliver, 

Harlem United, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York AIDS Coalition 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2 $50,000 

Project Inform, San Francisco AIDS Foundation 

BOSTON, MA; CHICAGO, IL; LOS ANGELES, CA; SEATTLE, WA 4 $80,000 

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Black AIDS Institute, Lifelong AIDS Alliance 

TOTAL $340,000 

(This is an increase of $125,000 over 2003’s total of $215,000 given to 16 organizations.) 

Since a large portion of the money raised for BC/EFA comes directly from theatre audiences across America, not just New York, 

we are committed to assisting the full spectrum of communities affected by AIDS. By making grants to diverse organizations 

nationwide, BC/EFA is able to give back to those very communities that allow us to create a safety net for those in the entertainment 

industry through the services of The Actors’ Fund. 

Since its founding in 1988 through 2004, over $25 million has been distributed by BC/EFA through its National Grants 

Programs. 

The BC/EFA Grants Committee is comprised of individuals representing a diverse range of AIDS service providers and 

populations affected by AIDS, as well as members of the theatrical fundraising family. 


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“WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND YOUR CONFIDENCE 

IN OUR ABILITY TO SERVE POOR AND HOMELESS WOMEN AND 

CHILDREN. WHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLE SOUP KITCHEN HAS GROWN 

INTO A COMMUNITY CENTER. WE OFFER A SANCTUARY WHERE 

VULNERABLE WOMEN FIND REFUGE, WHERE DESPAIR COLLIDES WITH 

HOPE AND WHERE JUSTICE CONFRONTS OPPRESSION. WITH THE 

HELP OF BROADWAY CARES, MIRACLES HAPPEN EVERYDAY HERE AT 

ROSIE’S PLACE. THANK YOU.” 

ROSIE’S PLACE 

BOSTON, MA 

“THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE $5,000 GRANT FOR OUR POSITIVE 

DIRECTIONS PROGRAM. YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT ALLOWS US TO 

PROVIDE OUR CLIENTS WITH ACCESS TO SERVICES THAT HELP THEM 

IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND AVOID A RETURN TO THE STREETS” 

PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES 

ST. LOUIS, MI 

GRANT DOLLAR AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS (Number of organizations receiving grants) 

$39.5 

(7) 

$435.0 

(69) 

$64.0 

(11) 

$25 

(5) 

AK 

10.0 

(1) 

$13.5 

(3) 

$10.0 

(1) $55.0 

(10) 

$45.0 

(8) 

$10.0 

(2) 

$15.5 

(5) 

HI 

$10.0 

(1) 

$10.0 

(1) 

$15.0 

(2) 

$35.0 

(5) 

$186.0 

(28) 

$47.5 

(8) 

$22.5 

(3) 

$21.0 

(4) 

$88.5 

(14) 

$57.5 

(8) 

$18.5 

(4) 

$27.5 

(4) 

$82.5 

(15) 

$10.0 

(1) 

PR 

$45.0 

(6) 

$38.0 

(6) 

$37.5 

(8) 

$45.5 (9) 

$60.0 

(7) 

$62.5 

(8) 

$7.5 

(1) 

$47.5 

(6) 

$107.5 

(17) 

$22.5 

(5) 

$97.0 

(19) 

$42.0 

(10) 

$87.0 

(14) 

$263.5 

(43) 

$712.5 

(120) 

$31.5 

(7) 

VT $ 27.0 (3) 

NH $ 22.5 (4) 

MA $ 76.0 (15) 

RI $ 10.0 (1) 

CT $ 31.0 (7) 

NJ $105.0 (17) 

DE $ 10.0 (2) 

MD $ 50.0 (9) 

DC $182.5 (21) 

key 

$100,000 and above 




Note: This map represents only National Grants and National Grants II (not supplemental/emergency grants, red ribbon purchases, and benefit and community relation support). 


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BC/EFA GRANT COMMITTEE DISBURSEMENTS FISCAL YEAR 2004 

food services $ 909,000 154 28% 

Food banks and pantries, congregate and delivered meals 

direct services $ 647,000 107 20% 

Including case management, housing programs, personal care services and transportation 

programs 

emergency financial $ 655,000 123 20% 

assistance 

one-time expenses $ 529,000 77 16% 

Covers such expenses as purchase or repair of transportation van, purchase of food service 

equipment, renovation of kitchen space, and communication equipment upgrade 

substance abuse and $ 250,500 45 8% 

harm reduction services 

quality of life services $ 245,000 

Youth activity programs, retreats, veterinary services 

58 8% 

total $3,235,000 564 100% 

Note: These are only grants awarded by BC/EFA’s Grants Committee. These do not include 

supplemental and emergency grants approved by the senior staff. 


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NATIONAL GRANTS 

BY STATE 

JULY 14, 2004 

STATE CITY ORGANIZATION AMOUNT 

ALASKA Anchorage Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association $10,000 

STATE TOTAL: $10,000 

ALABAMA Auburn East Alabama AIDS Outreach $10,000 

Birmingham AIDS Alabama $10,000 

Birmingham Birmingham AIDS Outreach $10,000 

Huntsville AIDS Action Coalition/Davis Clinic $5,000 

Mobile Mobile AIDS Support Services $5,000 

Montgomery Montgomery AIDS Outreach $10,000 

Tuscaloosa West Alabama AIDS Outreach, Inc. $10,000 


ARKANSAS El Dorado South Arkansas Fights AIDS $10,000 

Little Rock Arkansas AIDS Foundation $10,000 

Little Rock Positive Voices $5,000 

Little Rock Ward’s of Serenity $2,500 

STATE TOTAL: 27,500 

ARIZONA Chinle Navajo AIDS Network, Inc. $5,000 

Phoenix Agape Network $5,000 

Phoenix AIDS Project Arizona $5,000 

Phoenix Body Positive, Inc. (Phoenix) $5,000 

Phoenix Joshua Tree Feeding Program $2,500 

Phoenix Mercy Services Corporation/Mercy Housing $2,500 

Phoenix Phoenix Shanti Group $10,000 

Tucson Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation $10,000 


CALIFORNIA Camarillo Ventura County AIDS Partnership $5,000 

Cathedral City Working Wonders $2,500 


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“THANK YOU FOR THE RECENT AWARD. FOR AN ORGANIZATION SUCH 

AS OURS, YOUR $5,000 GRANT MAKES A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE IN 

OUR MEETING THE IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS 

THAT CANNOT BE MET BY MORE BUREAUCRATIC FUNDING SOURCES.” 

THE WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 


CALIFORNIA Escondido Fraternity House, Inc. $4,000 

CONTINUED Garden Grove Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County $10,000 

Guerneville Pets Are Loving Support $5,000 

Irvine AIDS Services Foundation Orange County (ASF) $5,000 

Los Angeles Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team $2,500 

Los Angeles BIENSTAR Human Services $2,500 

Los Angeles Camp Laurel Foundation $5,000 

Los Angeles Caring for Children and Families with AIDS $5,000 

Los Angeles Project Angel Food $5,000 

Monterey John XXIII AIDS Ministry $5,000 

North Hollywood Valley Community Clinic $5,000 

Palm Springs Desert AIDS Project $10,000 

Palmdale Sunrise HIV/AIDS Coalition $2,500 

Pasadena AIDS Service Center $5,000 

Pasadena Serra Project $10,000 

Redding Shasta - Trinity - Tehama HIV Food Bank $10,000 

Redwood City AIDS Community Research Consortium $2,500 

Riverside Inland AIDS Project $2,500 

Rohnert Park Sunburst Projects $5,000 

Sacramento Breaking Barriers Community Services Center $5,000 

San Bernardino Central City Lutheran Mission $10,000 

San Diego Auntie Helen’s Fluff ‘n’ Fold $10,000 

San Diego Being Alive San Diego $5,000 

San Diego Christie’s Place $5,000 

San Diego Hemophilia Association of San Diego County $2,000 

San Diego Karibu Center for Social Support and Education $10,000 

San Diego Mama’s Kitchen, Inc. $10,000 

San Diego SouthEast Abundant Resources (S.E.A.R.) $10,000 

San Diego Special Delivery San Diego $10,000 

San Diego Townspeople, Inc. $10,000 

San Francisco Acupuncture and Recovery Treatment Services $2,500 

San Francisco AIDS Emergency Fund $5,000 

San Francisco AIDS Legal Referral Panel $5,000 

San Francisco AIDS, Medicine and Miracles $1,000 

San Francisco Bay Area Young Positives $2,500 

San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS $2,500 

San Francisco Continuum $10,000 

San Francisco Dolores Street Community Services $5,000 

San Francisco Healing Waters / The Tides Center $5,000 

San Francisco Immune Enhancement Project $10,000 

San Francisco Maitri $10,000 

San Francisco New Leaf: Services for Our Community $5,000 

San Francisco Project Open Hand $10,000 

San Francisco Quan Yin Healing Arts Center $2,500 

San Francisco Rita da Cascia/Positive Match $2,500 

San Francisco San Francisco Suicide Prevention – AIDS/HIV Nightline $5,000 

San Francisco Shanti $5,000 

San Francisco Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center $10,000 

San Jose Combined Addicts and Professional Services (CAPS) $5,000 


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“THANK YOU FOR THE RECENT $5,000 GRANT. IT WILL LITERALLY 

ENABLE US TO CONTINUE HELPING TO FEED FAMILIES LIVING WITH 

AIDS WITHOUT HAVING TO SAY ‘NO.’ BC/EFA GRANTS HELP US GET 

THROUGH THE YEAR. THEY KEEP THE PANTRY FILLED.” 

PROJECT RESPONSE AIDS CENTER 

FORT PIERCE, FL 


CALIFORNIA San Jose Health Connections $2,500 

CONTINUED San Jose Positive Resources of Santa Clara County $2,500 

San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo County AIDS Support Network $10,000 

San Marcos North County Health Services HIV/AIDS Case Management $3,000 

San Rafael Marin AIDS Project $2,500 

San Rafael Meals of Marin (MOM) $5,000 

Santa Monica Westside HIV Community Center – Common Ground $5,000 

Santa Ana Mercy House Transitional Living Centers $5,000 

Santa Barbara Pacific Pride Foundation $2,500 

Santa Cruz Santa Cruz AIDS Project $2,500 

Sheep Ranch Catherine’s House $2,500 

West Hollywood Aid for AIDS (CA) $5,000 

West Hollywood Being Alive People with AIDS Action Coalition $5,000 

West Hollywood Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS/LA) $7,500 


COLORADO Boulder Boulder County AIDS Project $5,000 

Colorado Springs Southern Colorado AIDS Project (S-CAP) $2,500 

Denver Colorado AIDS Project/Colorado Health Network $10,000 

Denver Empowerment Program $2,500 

Denver Howard Dental Center for HIV/AIDS Oral Health $10,000 

Denver Jewish Family Service of Colorado $5,000 

Denver Project Angel Heart $10,000 

Denver Women’s Lighthouse Project $5,000 

Fort Collins Northern Colorado AIDS Project $2,500 

Grand Junction Western Colorado AIDS Project (WESTCAP) $2,500 


CONNECTICUT Bridgeport FSW $2,500 

New Haven AIDS Project New Haven, Inc. $5,000 

New Haven Leeway, Inc. $5,000 

New Haven Liberty Community Services, Inc. $5,000 

New London Alliance for Living $2,500 

Stamford Camp AmeriKids $1,000 

Stamford St. Luke’s LifeWorks $10,000 


DISTRICT OF Washington Building Futures $2,500 

COLUMBIA Washington Carl Vogel Center $15,000 

Washington Consortium for Child Welfare/Family Ties Project $5,000 

Washington Food & Friends $5,000 

Washington Hill’s Community Residential Support Services, Inc. $10,000 

Washington Joseph’s House $10,000 

Washington Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area $5,000 

Washington Marigold Place, Inc. $10,000 

Washington Miriam’s House, Inc. $2,500 

Washington Northwest Church Family Network $2,500 

Washington Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care $5,000 


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DISTRICT OF Washington PreventionWorks!, Inc. $10,000 

COLUMBIA Washington Safe Haven Outreach Ministry, Inc. $5,000 

CONTINUED Washington Sasha Bruce Youthwork $5,000 

Washington Women’s Collective $10,000 


DELAWARE Wilmington AIDS Delaware $5,000 

Wilmington Delaware HIV Consortium, Inc. $5,000 


FLORIDA Daytona Beach Diggs Miracle Care $7,500 

Daytona Beach Outreach Community Care Network $2,500 

Fort Lauderdale Community Healthcare Center One $2,500 

Fort Lauderdale Kids in Distress, Inc. $5,000 

Fort Lauderdale Wellness Center of South Florida $5,000 

Fort Myers McGregor Clinic $2,500 

Fort Pierce AIDS Research & Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast, Inc. $5,000 

Fort Pierce Project Response AIDS Center - South $10,000 

Gainesville F.A.I.T.H., Inc. $10,000 

Goulds Adult & Juvenile Educational Services, Inc. $2,500 

Jacksonville Northeast Florida AIDS Network $10,000 

Jacksonville Women’s Center of Jacksonville, Inc. $1,000 

Key West AIDS Help, Inc. $5,000 

Kissimmee Transition House, Inc. $5,000 

Lakeland Friends-Together, Inc. $1,000 

Longwood PLACE of Comfort $5,000 

Melbourne Project Response AIDS Center - North $6,000 

Miami Centro de Prevencion y Educacion Hemisferico Corazones Unidos $2,500 

Miami Community AIDS Resource, Inc. $2,500 

Miami Community Casemanagement, Inc. $5,000 

Miami Dade Family Counseling, Inc. $5,000 

Miami Empower U, Inc. $5,000 

Miami Food For Life Network $10,000 

Miami Minority Group Development, Inc. $5,000 

Miami United Foundation for AIDS $4,000 

Miami Beach South Beach AIDS Project $5,000 

Naples Joe Logsdon AIDS Foundation, Inc. $10,000 

North Miami Center for Positive Connections $7,500 

Orlando Haven of Hope Ministries, Inc. $10,000 

Pahokee Church of the Harvest’s Food Pantry $10,000 

Parrish Manatee County Rural Health Services, Inc. $8,000 

Pensacola Appetite for Life, Inc. $10,000 

Pensacola Escambia AIDS Services and Education, Inc. $5,000 

Plantation Jewish AIDS Network $5,000 

Port Charlotte Charlotte HIV/AIDS People Support, Inc. $10,000 

Sebastian River Fund, The $10,000 

St. Petersburg AIDS Service Association of Pinellas, Inc. $10,000 

Tampa Francis House, Inc. $1,000 


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FLORIDA Tampa Greater Mt. Carmel Development $5,000 

CONTINUED Tampa PWA Coalition of Tampa Bay, Inc. $10,000 

West Palm Hope House of the Palm Beaches, Inc. $10,000 

Wilton Manors Poverello Center, Inc. $2,500 

Winter Park Hope and Help Center of Central Florida, Inc. $10,000 


GEORGIA Atlanta Absolutely Positive + Inc. $5,000 

Atlanta Action Ministries, Inc. $2,500 

Atlanta AID Atlanta, Inc. $10,000 

Atlanta AIDS Survival Project $10,000 

Atlanta Atlanta Harm Reduction Center $5,000 

Atlanta Atlanta Interfaith AIDS Network $2,500 

Atlanta Emory/Grady Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program $10,000 

Atlanta Jerusalem House, Inc. $5,000 

Atlanta National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities $5,000 

Atlanta Positive Impact, Inc. $5,000 

Atlanta SisterLove, Inc. $5,000 

Augusta St. Stephen’s Ministry of Augusta, Inc. $2,500 

Carrollton Positive Response, Inc. $2,500 

Cartersville AIDS Alliance of Northwest Georgia, Inc. $1,000 

Douglasville Miracles AIDS Network. Inc. $5,000 

Savannah My Brothaz H.O.M.E. $2,500 

Savannah Project AZUKA, Inc. $10,000 

Thomasville Safe Haven, Inc. $6,000 

Valdosta South Georgia Coalition to End Homelessness $2,500 


HAWAII Honolulu Save the FoodBasket, Inc. $10,000 


IOWA Cedar Rapids Iowa Community AIDS Partnership $2,500 

Davenport AIDS Project Quad Cities, Inc. $10,000 

Des Moines AIDS Project of Central Iowa $3,500 

Iowa City Iowa Center for AIDS Resources & Education (ICARE) $5,000 


ILLINOIS Carbondale Southern Illinois Regional Effort for AIDS, Inc. $5,000 

Champaign Greater Community AIDS Project $5,000 

Chicago AIDSCARE, Inc. $10,000 

Chicago Chicago House and Social Service Agency $10,000 

Chicago Heartland Rafael Center $5,000 

Chicago Project VIDA, Inc. $10,000 

Chicago South Side Help Center $2,500 

Chicago Test Positive Aware (TPA) Network, Inc. $5,000 

Chicago TransGenesis Social Services $5,000 

Chicago University of Chicago $1,000 

Chicago Vital Bridges $5,000 


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BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS grants program 

“THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS GRANT OF $5,000. AS THE HIV/AIDS 

EPIDEMIC IN THE BAY AREA CONTINUES TO CHANGE, WE ARE COMMIT- 

TED TO ADAPTING OUR PROGRAMS TO ENSURE WE PROVIDE THE HIGH- 

EST QUALITY SERVICES TO OUR CLIENTS. YOUR GRANT WILL ALSO 

ENABLE US TO EXPAND OUR MISSION TO PROVIDE MEALS FOR SENIORS 

AND PERSONS LIVING WITH ANY HOMEBOUND CRITICAL ILLNESS. “ 

PROJECT OPEN HAND 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 


ILLINOIS Peoria Central Illinois Friends of PWA, Inc. $2,500 

CONTINUED Rock Island DeLaCerda House $2,500 


INDIANA Elkhart Elkhart County AIDS Community Action Group $2,500 

Evansville Tri-State Alliance, Inc. $5,000 

Fishers Promised Land Foundation, Inc. $5,000 

Indianapolis Damien Center $10,000 

Indianapolis Harm Reduction Institute $2,500 

Jasper Patoka Valley AIDS Community Action Group $5,000 

Muncie Open Door Community Services, Inc. $5,000 

South Bend AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist of North Indiana, Inc. $2,500 


KANSAS Lawrence Douglas County AIDS Project $10,000 

Topeka Topeka AIDS Project, Inc. $10,000 

Wichita H.O.P.E., Inc./Wichita AIDS $3,500 

Wichita Positive Directions $9,000 

Wichita UKSM-W MPA HIV Program $2,500 


KENTUCKY Paducah Heartland CARES, Inc. $7,500 


LOUISIANA Alexandria Central Louisiana AIDS Support Services $10,000 

Gretna Kid’s Quarters, Inc. $5,000 

Houma Meadowlark, Inc. $2,500 

Monroe Go Care (Greater Ouachita Providing AIDS Resources and Education) $5,000 

New Orleans Belle Reve New Orleans $5,000 

New Orleans Elysian Fields Church of Christ Inner City Outreach Ministry $2,500 

New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force $10,000 

New Orleans Project Lazarus $5,000 

New Orleans St. John #5 Baptist Church $5,000 

New Orleans Taylor’s Alliance Center, Inc. $5,000 

New Orleans Women With A Vision, Inc. $5,000 

Shreveport Philadelphia Center $10,000 

Thibobaux Angels of Mercy Rehabilitation Center, Inc. $5,000 

Thibodaux Home of the Eagle Shelter, Inc. $5,000 

Thibodaux New Beginning of Recovery, Inc. $2,500 


MASSACHUSETTS Acushnet Association of Individuals Dedicated & Sincere (A.I.D.S., Inc.) $5,000 

Boston Boston Living Center $5,000 

Boston Pathways to Wellness, Inc. $2,500 

Boston Rosie’s Place $5,000 

Burlington Junior Chamber Family AIDS Network $10,000 

Cambridge Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) $2,500 

Danvers Strongest Link AIDS Services, Inc. $1,000 


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“THANK YOU FOR THE $5,000 CONTRIBUTION. THERE IS STILL NO CURE 

FOR AIDS AND OVER 60,000 PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY ALONE HAVE BEEN 

DIAGNOSED. INFECTION RATES HAVE NOT DECLINED SINCE 1998 AND 

THERE WERE OVER 2,000 NEW INFECTIONS REPORTED IN 2004 ALONE. 

YET, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS PROPOSED THE LOWEST LEVEL 

OF FUNDING IN FIVE YEARS. BC/EFA’S SUPPORT MEANS MORE TO US 

NOW THAN EVER.” 

HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION 

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 


MASSACHUSETTS Fall River Office of AIDS Ministry $5,000 

CONTINUED Framingham Metrowest AIDS Consortium $2,500 

Framingham MetroWest Latin American Center $5,000 

Provincetown Provincetown AIDS Support Group $5,000 

Roxbury Community Servings $10,000 

Springfield AIDS Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Inc. $2,500 

Worcester AIDS Project Worcester, Inc. $5,000 


MARYLAND Baltimore AIDS Action Baltimore, Inc. $5,000 

Baltimore AIDS Interfaith Residential Services, Inc. $5,000 

Baltimore Health Education Resource Organizations, Inc. (HERO) $10,000 

Baltimore Moveable Feast, Inc. $10,000 

Baltimore New Life Fulfillment Childcare & Family Support Center $2,500 

Baltimore Women Accepting Responsibility $5,000 

Hagerstown Project AIDS $2,500 

Randallstown Millennium Teens Stand Against Issues, Inc. $7,500 

Seat Pleasant Heart to Hand, Inc. $2,500 


MAINE Augusta Positively Social of New England $5,000 

Bangor Eastern Maine AIDS Network $2,500 

Belfast Coastal AIDS Network $5,000 

Brunswick Merrymeeting AIDS Support Services $4,000 

Ellsworth Down East AIDS Network $5,000 

Portland AIDS Lodging House $2,500 

Portland Frannie Peabody Center $7,500 


MICHIGAN Detroit AIDS Partnership Michigan $5,000 

Detroit Community Health Awareness Group $10,000 

Grand Rapids Grand Rapids REACH, Inc. $9,500 

Northville Rainbow Alliance, Inc. $1,000 

Sylvan Lake Deaf Community Advocacy Network $2,500 

Ypsilanti HIV/AIDS Resource Center $10,000 


MINNESOTA Minneapolis AIDS Care Partners $5,000 

Minneapolis Archdiocesan AIDS Ministry Program $5,000 

Minneapolis Minneapolis Urban League $2,500 

Minneapolis Minnesota AIDS Project $10,000 

Minneapolis Open Arms of Minnesota $10,000 

Moorhead Minnkota Health Project $5,000 

St. Paul Clare Housing $5,000 

Stillwater Hope House of St. Croix Valley $5,000 



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MISSOURI Columbia Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN-Central Missouri) $7,500 

Kansas City Guadalupe Center, Inc. $2,500 

Kansas City Hope Care Center $5,000 

Kansas City Kansas City Free Health Clinic $5,000 

St. Louis Doorways $10,000 

St. Louis Food Outreach, Inc. $10,000 

St. Louis Peter & Paul Community Services, Inc. $10,000 

St. Louis Saint Louis Effort for AIDS $7,500 


MISSISSIPPI Hattiesburg AIDS Services Coalition $10,000 


MONTANA Billings Yellowstone AIDS Project $10,000 

Helena Lewis and Clark AIDS Project $2,500 

Kalispell Flathead AIDS Council, Inc. $1,000 


NORTH CAROLINA Asheville Loving Food Resources $10,000 

Asheville Western North Carolina HIV/AIDS Consortium $10,000 

Belmont House of Mercy, Inc. $8,500 

Charlotte House of Grace, Inc. $5,000 

Charlotte Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium $1,000 

Clayton Just Blessed Baptist Church, Inc. $2,500 

Dunn Community Service Network, Inc. $2,500 

Durham CAARE, Inc. $5,000 

Franklin Nantahala AIDS Consortium $10,000 

Henderson Agape Life Changing Ministries $2,500 

Lumberton Borderbelt AIDS Resources Team, Inc. $7,500 

Raleigh Alliance of AIDS Services – Carolina $10,000 

Raleigh Glory to Glory House of Refuge $7,500 

Wilmington Cure AIDS of Wilmington, Inc. $5,000 


NEBRASKA Lincoln Camp Kindle $5,000 

Omaha Nebraska AIDS Project, Inc. $10,000 


NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord Merrimack Valley Assistance Program $7,500 

Keene AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region $2,500 

Lebanon AIDS Community Resource Network (ACORN) $7,500 

Nashua Southern New Hampshire HIV/AIDS Task Force $5,000 


NEW JERSEY Atlantic City South Jersey AIDS Alliance $5,000 

Bellmawr AIDS Coalition of Southern New Jersey $10,000 

Dover Catholic Social Services of Morris County/Hope House $5,000 

Fort Lee FRIENDS FOR LIFE/Good Shepherd Community Services, Inc. $12,500 


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NEW JERSEY Hackensack Buddies of New Jersey, Inc. $5,000 

CONTINUED Jersey City Jersey City Connections, Inc. $10,000 

New Brunswick Hyacinth AIDS Foundation $10,000 

New Brunswick New Jersey Women and AIDS Network $5,000 

Newark AIDS Resource Center CDC of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark $5,000 

Newark Broadway House for Continuing Care $2,500 

Newark Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center $5,000 

Paterson Coalition on AIDS in Passaic County, Inc. $5,000 

Paterson Sancta Maria House of Mercy $5,000 

Paterson St. Paul’s Community Development Corporation $2,500 

Rutherford Angelwish $5,000 

Trenton Mount Carmel Guild $10,000 

Trenton United Progress, Inc. $2,500 


NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Inc. $5,000 

Roswell Alianza of New Mexico $1,000 

Santa Fe Southwest C.A.R.E. Center $5,000 

Sante Fe Camp Corazones $3,500 

Sante Fe New Mexico POZ Coalition $1,000 


NEVADA Henderson Saint Therese Center $2,500 

Las Vegas Golden Rainbow $10,000 

Reno Frontline of Northern Nevada $2,500 

Reno Nevada AIDS Foundation $5,000 

Reno Northern Nevada HOPES $5,000 


NEW YORK Albany AIDS Council of Northeastern New York $5,000 

Bayside St. Mary’s Foundation/St. Mary’s Hosptial for Children $5,000 

Brentwood Brentwood Family Health Center $2,500 

Bronx Bronx AIDS Services, Inc. $5,000 

Bronx CitiWide Harm Reduction $5,000 

Bronx Health People: Community Preventive Health Institute $5,000 

Bronx Jacobi Medical Center $5,000 

Bronx La Familia Unida AIDS Outreach Project-Research $5,000 

Bronx Montefiore Medical Center/Women’s Center $10,000 

Bronx Montefiore Medical Center/Project BRAVO $5,000 

Bronx Tolentine Zeiser Community Life Center $10,000 

Brooklyn After Hours Project, Inc. $5,000 

Brooklyn Alliance for Family Education, Care and Treatment $2,500 

Brooklyn Association for Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Inc. $5,000 

Brooklyn Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, Inc. $5,000 

Brooklyn Casa Betsaida $5,000 

Brooklyn Dwa Fanm $10,000 

Brooklyn Helping Hands Unlimited, Inc. $5,000 

Brooklyn Housing Matters of New York $10,000 


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“WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE AWARDING 

OF $5,000 TO PURCHASE CLOTHING FOR OUR CLIENTS. BC/EFA IS 

HELPING US MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS HEAD-ON AND IN WAYS 

THAT MAY BE SLIGHTLY UNCONVENTIONAL BUT NECESSARY FOR THEIR 

WELL-BEING. WE SHOP WISELY AND TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN WHAT WE 

CAN PROVIDE OUR CLIENTS WITH YOUR HELP.” 

AIDS NETWORK 

MARTINSBURG, WV 


NEW YORK Brooklyn Life Force: Women Fighting AIDS, Inc. $2,500 

CONTINUED Brooklyn Musica Against Drugs $5,000 

Brooklyn New York City AIDS Housing Network $10,000 

Brooklyn Turning Point $5,000 

Buffalo AIDS Community Services of Western New York, Inc. $5,000 

Buffalo AIDS Family Services $5,000 

Buffalo Faith Based Fellowship $3,500 

Buffalo Hispanics United of Buffalo $2,500 

Congers TOUCH of Rockland County, Inc. (T.O.U.C.H.) $2,500 

Garrison Do Not Fear To Hope $5,000 

Hawthorne AIDS-Related Community Services $10,000 

Huntington Long Island Association for AIDS Care, Inc. $10,000 

Ithaca AIDS WORK $5,000 

Ithaca Southern Tier AIDS Program/Tompkins County Prevention Point $1,000 

Jamaica YMCA of Greater New York - Jamaica Branch $5,000 

New York African Services Committee, Inc. $7,500 

New York AGMA Emergency Relief Fund $5,000 

New York Aid for AIDS (NY) $5,000 

New York AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) $5,000 

New York AIDS Service Center NYC $10,000 

New York Ali Forney Center $5,000 

New York Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc. $5,000 

New York Bailey House, Inc. $10,000 

New York Betances Health Center $2,500 

New York Blessed Sacrament Transitional Residence for HIV+ Men $5,000 

New York Care for the Homeless $5,000 

New York Career Transition for Dancers $10,000 

New York Children of Parents with AIDS, Inc. (COPWA) $2,500 

New York Children’s Friends for Life Foundation, Inc. $2,500 

New York Children’s Hope Foundation $2,500 

New York Church of St. Luke in the Fields - The AIDS Project $5,000 

New York Episcopal Actors’ Guild of America, Inc. $5,000 

New York Exponents, Inc. $5,000 

New York Family Care Center - Harlem Hospital $2,500 

New York Family Center, Inc. $5,000 

New York Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Disesases – FROST’D $4,000 

New York Fraternite Notre Dame, Inc. $5,000 

New York Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City $5,000 

New York Friends In Deed $5,000 

New York Gay Men of African Descent $10,000 

New York Hispanic AIDS Forum $5,000 

New York HIV Law Project, Inc. $2,500 

New York Housing Works, Inc. $10,000 

New York Identity House $7,500 

New York Incarnation Children’s Center/Friends of ICC $2,500 

New York Iris House $5,000 

New York Kenmore HDFC $5,000 

New York Lamb’s Manhattan Initiative/Gifted Hands Program $2,500 

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“BC/EFA’S $5,000 GRANT FOR OUR CLIENT EMERGENCY FUND COMES AT 

A MOST CRITICAL TIME, BECAUSE WE ARE RECEIVING MORE REQUESTS 

FOR ASSISTANCE FROM AN EVEN LARGER CLIENT POPULATION THAN 

EVER BEFORE. ADVANCES IN TREATMENT HAVE HELPED PEOPLE 

LIVING WITH AIDS TREMENDOUSLY BUT HAVE ALSO PRESENTED NEW 

CHALLENGES FOR THEM AND THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE THEM.” 

STATEN ISLAND AIDS TASK FORCE 

STATEN ISLAND, NY 


NEW YORK New York Latino Commission on AIDS $5,000 

CONTINUED New York Legal Action Center $5,000 

New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center $5,000 

New York Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center $2,500 

New York Metropolitan Community Church of New York $5,000 

New York Miracle House $5,000 

New York Momentum AIDS Project $5,000 

New York Narragansett Housing Development Fund Corporation $2,500 

New York Partnership for the Homeless $5,000 

New York Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program $5,000 

New York Positive Health Project, Inc. $5,000 

New York Prince George – Common Ground Community $5,000 

New York Project STAY $2,500 

New York Safe Horizon/Streetwork $5,000 

New York Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) $5,000 

New York Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research & Treatment $10,000 

New York St. Mary’s Center, Inc. $2,000 

New York Times Square – Common Ground Community $5,000 

New York Visual AIDS for the Arts, Inc. $2,500 

New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts $7,500 

New York Women and Children Care Center $5,000 

New York Women’s Prison Association $5,000 

Nyack Family Centered Immunotherapy Clinic $2,500 

Oneonta Catskill Rural AIDS Services, Inc. $5,000 

Patchogue South Brookhaven Family Health Center West $5,000 

Patchogue Thursday’s Child $2,500 

Pleasant Valley NETWORTH/Positive Action $5,000 

Port Chester Family Service of Westchester: Camp Viva $7,500 

Poughkeepsie Dutchess Outreach, Inc. $2,500 

Rego Park AIDS Center of Queens County, Inc. $5,000 

Richmond Hill River Fund New York, Inc. $5,000 

Riverhead Nassau/Suffolk Law Services David Project $5,000 

Rochester AIDS Rochester, Inc. $10,000 

Sayville Splashes of Hope $2,500 

Schenectady Schenectady Inner City Ministry $10,000 

Smithtown Options for Community Living, Inc. $3,500 

Staten Island Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation $2,500 

Staten Island Justin LiGreci HIV and AIDS Foundation $1,000 

Staten Island Project BUILD of Richmond County $5,000 

Staten Island Project Hospitality, Inc. $5,000 

Staten Island Staten Island AIDS Task Force $5,000 

Troy Troy Area United Ministries, Inc. $5,000 

Yonkers Fessenden House $10,000 

Yonkers Greyston Health Foundation $5,000 

Yonkers Sharing Community, Inc $2,500 


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OHIO Akron Violet’s Cupboard $10,000 

Canfield Ursuline Sisters HIV/AIDS Ministry $5,000 

Cincinnati Caracole, Inc. $10,000 

Cleveland AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland $10,000 

Columbus Columbus AIDS Task Force, Inc. $10,000 

Columbus Project Open Hand/Columbus $5,000 

Dayton AIDS Resource Center Ohio $10,000 

Westerville Project Compassion $2,500 


OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City CarePoint, Inc. $2,500 

Oklahoma City Northern Lights Alternatives, Oklahoma City $1,000 

Oklahoma City Other Options, Inc. $5,000 

Oklahoma City RAIN-Oklahoma $10,000 


OREGON Eugene HIV Alliance $5,000 

Portland Cascade AIDS Project, Inc. $10,000 

Portland Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon $10,000 

Portland For Us Northwest (FUN) $1,000 

Portland Friends of People with AIDS Foundation $1,000 

Portland Our House of Portland $10,000 

Portland Women’s Intercommunity AIDS Resource $2,500 


PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem AIDS Services Center - Lehigh Valley PA $2,500 

Clarion Northwest PA Rural AIDS Alliance $5,000 

Eagleville Family Services of Montgomery County/Project Hope $2,500 

Harrisburg Positive Opportunities $5,000 

Lancaster Gathering Place $10,000 

Lancaster Urban League of Lancaster County, Inc. $5,000 

Philadelphia ActionAIDS $5,000 

Philadelphia Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues (BEBASHI) $5,000 

Philadelphia Calcutta House $5,000 

Philadelphia Mazzoni Center $10,000 

Philadelphia Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) $10,000 

Philadelphia Prevention Point Philadelphia $10,000 

Philadelphia Siloam $5,000 

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force $10,000 

Pittsburgh Prevention Point Pittsburgh $5,000 

Pittsburgh Shepherd Wellness Community $10,000 

Williamsport AIDS Resource Alliance $2,500 


PUERTO RICO Aguada Programa de Apoyo y Enlace Comunitario, Inc. $12,500 

Arecibo Comunidad Para Envejecientes Vazquez, Inc. $5,000 

Arecibo Hogar Vida y Esperanza Multiservice, Inc. $10,000 

Arecibo Ministerio “En Jehova Seran Provitos” SIDA Pediatrico $10,000 

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PUERTO RICO Hatillo Centro de Intervencion e Integracion Paso a Paso $2,500 

CONTINUED Vega Baja Fundacion U.P.E.N.S., Inc. $5,000 


RHODE ISLAND Providence AIDS Project Rhode Island $10,000 


SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia Women’s Resource Center $2,500 

Greenville AID Upstate $5,000 

Greenville Project Host $5,000 

Myrtle Beach Careteam, Inc. $5,000 

Ridgeland ACCESS Network, Inc. $5,000 


SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls Berakhah House $10,000 


TENNESSEE Brentwood Tennessee Hemophilia & Bleeding Disorders Foundation $2,000 

Chattanooga Chattanooga CARES AIDS Resource Center $2,500 

Columbia Columbia CARES, Inc. $10,000 

Columbia Kids Fighting AIDS, Inc. $7,500 

Memphis AIDS Virus Awareness Association $5,000 

Memphis Friends for Life Corporation $5,000 

Nashville Metropolitan Interdenominational Church First Response Center $1,000 

Nashville Nashville CARES $10,000 

Nashville New Hope Foundation, Inc. $2,500 

Nashville New Hope Foundation, Inc. $2,500 


TEXAS Alvin AIDS Alliance of the Bay Area, Inc. $15,000 

Amarillo Panhandle AIDS Support Organization, Inc. $5,000 

Austin AIDS Services of Austin $10,000 

Austin Interfaith Care Alliance $5,000 

Austin Wright House Wellness Center $2,500 

Beaumont Triangle AIDS Network $5,000 

Corpus Christi Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation $5,000 

Corpus Christi Loving Spoonful, Inc. $5,000 

Dallas Bryan’s House $2,500 

Dallas Resource Center of Dallas, Inc. $10,000 

Denton AIDS Services of North Texas Inc. $5,000 

El Paso International AIDS Empowerment $10,000 

Fort Worth AIDS Outreach Center $5,000 

Fort Worth Tarrant Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse $1,000 

Fort Worth Tarrant County Samaritan Housing, Inc. $2,500 

Houston AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc. $2,500 

Houston AIDS Research Consortium of Houston dba The Center for AIDS $5,000 

Houston Assistance Fund $10,000 

Houston Bering Omega Community Services $2,500 

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“WITH OVER 300 CLIENTS AND AN EVER-INCREASING DEMAND FOR 

SERVICES, BC/EFA’S $5,000 GRANT WILL HELP MAKE UP SOME OF THE 

SHORTFALL IN OUR 2004 BUDGET. WE WISH BROADWAY CARES AND 

ALL ITS THEATRICAL PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HEALTH 

AND SUCCESS IN THEIR DAILY ENDEAVORS. I CAN’T BEGIN TO TELL 

YOU HOW HELPFUL THIS GRANT WILL BE.” 

ARKANSAS AIDS FOUNDATION 

LITTLE ROCK, AR 


TEXAS Houston Brentwood Community Foundation $5,000 

CONTINUED Houston Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos, Inc. $10,000 

Houston Fundacion Latino Americana Contra El Sida, Inc. $5,000 

Houston Houston Challenge Foundation $10,000 

Longview Special Health Resources for Texas $10,000 

Nacogdoches Health Horizons of East Texas, Inc. $5,000 

San Angelo Educare 2001, Inc. $12,500 

San Angelo San Angelo AIDS Foundation $10,000 

Tyler Tyler AIDS Services, Inc. $10,000 


UTAH Salt Lake City Utah AIDS Foundation $10,000 


VIRGINIA Charlottesville AIDS/HIV Services Group, Inc. $5,000 

Falls Church Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry (NOVAM) $5,500 

Harrisonburg Valley AIDS Network $2,500 

Manassas Prince William Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers $5,000 

Norfolk CANDII, Inc. (Children’s AIDS Network Designed for Interfaith Involvement) $5,000 

Norfolk Full Circle AIDS Hospice Support $9,000 

Richmond Cross-Cultural Agencies PLUS $2,500 

Richmond Fan Free Clinic, Inc. $2,500 

Richmond Transformation Retreats, Inc. $2,500 

Williamsburg Williamsburg AIDS Network $2,500 


VERMONT Brattleboro AIDS Project of Southern Vermont $9,500 

Burlington Imani Health Institute $2,500 

Burlington Vermont Cares $15,000 


WASHINGTON Everett Catholic Community Services of Snohomish County $2,500 

Kennewick Tri-Cities Chaplaincy $4,000 

Seattle Bailey-Boushay House $5,000 

Seattle Downtown Emergency Service Center $5,000 

Seattle Rise n’ Shine $2,500 

Seattle Rosehedge: AIDS Housing and Health Care $7,500 

Spokane Spokane AIDS Network $5,000 

Tacoma Pierce County AIDS Foundation $5,000 

Walla Walla Blue Mountain Heart to Heart $5,000 

Yakima Care Bearers $2,500 


WISCONSIN Madison AIDS Network $10,000 

Milwaukee AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc. $10,000 

Stevens Point Central Wisconsin HIV/AIDS Ministry Project $2,500 


WEST VIRGINIA Bluefield South Central Educational Development $15,000 

Charleston Covenant House, Inc. $5,000 

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“THE WORK THAT BC/EFA DOES IS A TRIBUTE TO THE THOUSANDS OF 

PEOPLE IN THE THEATRE COMMUNITY WHOSE WORK MAKES WHAT YOU 

DO POSSIBLE. THE TENACITY WITH WHICH YOU ALL CONTINUE TO 

MEET THE CHALLENGES TO YOUR FUNDRAISING IS REFLECTIVE OF 

THAT COMMITMENT. PLEASE ACCEPT HEARTFELT THANKS FOR THIS 

SUPPORT - NOT JUST FROM US BUT FROM THE HUNDREDS OF SIMILAR 

ORGANIZATIONS YOU ASSIST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.” 

PITTSBURGH AIDS TASK FORCE 

PITTSBURGH, PA 


WEST VIRGINIA Charleston West Virginia Coalition for People with HIV/AIDS, Inc. $7,500 

CONTINUED Martinsburg AIDS Network of the Tri-State Area $10,000 

Martinsburg Community Networks, Inc. $5,000 

Morgantown Caritas House, Inc. $5,000 


WYOMING Casper Wyoming AIDS Project $5,000 

Cheyenne Wyoming Positives for Positives $5,000 


SUBTOTAL NATIONAL GRANTS: $3,235,000 

OTHER GRANTS National Grants II $340,000 

Supplemental/Emergency Grants $528,332 

Red Ribbons $19,030 

Benefit Support and Community Relations $142,476 

TOTAL ALL GRANTS: $4,264,838 

Note: This does not include BC/EFA International Grants. 

“EVERY DAY WE SEE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING INCREDIBLE DIFFICULTY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGING 

HIV IN THEIR LIVES. WITHOUT INSURANCE FOR LIFE-SAVING MEDICATIONS, HIV IS STILL A FATAL ILLNESS. AND THE 

VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WE SEE HAVE NO PRIVATE COVERAGE. 

JUST YESTERDAY OREGON’S STATE LEGISLATURE TOLD THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO 

INITIATE CUTTING BENEFITS FOR 50% OF THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY ENROLLED ON THE STANDARD OREGON HEALTH 

PLAN. THERE IS SIMPLY NO MONEY. FEDERAL MONEY HAS DRIED UP AS TAXES ARE CUT AND THE DEFICIT 

EXPLODES. STATES HAVE TO BEAR THE BURDEN. IT’S A SAD, SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR ANYONE FACING ANY KIND 

OF HEALTH CRISIS. 

LIKE AIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WE WORK VERY HARD TO PREVENT NEW INFECTIONS 

AS WE HELP INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH AIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES. THIS HASN’T BEEN JUST A “GAY MAN’S DISEASE” 

FOR A LONG TIME. BC/EFA’S GRANT MEANS MORE TO US THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW. WE LITERALLY CAN FIGHT 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER WEEK...AND INTO A VERY INDEFINITE FUTURE. 

THESE DAYS WHEN SO MUCH IS BEING CUT BACK OR TRANSFERRED TO PAY FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT OVERSEAS, AT 

THE SAME TIME THAT THE EXTREMELY WEALTHY OR CORPORATE PLAYERS ARE ENABLED TO PAY LESS AND LESS IN 

TAXES, PLEASE KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO COUNT ON THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WE MAY 

NEVER SEE ON THE BROADWAY STAGE OR MEET AT THE OFFICES OF BROADWAY CARES. BUT WE ARE GRATEFUL TO 

KNOW YOU ARE PARTNERS IN THIS WORK. WE WISH THAT MORE WOULD WANT TO JOIN US WITH YOU.” 

GRANTS COORDINATOR / HIV ALLIANCE 

EUGENE, OREGON 

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INTERNATIONAL 

GRANTS 

Over the last few years, a number of Broadway shows originating overseas or with foreign-born actors 

in their casts have participated generously in BC/EFA’s six weeks of audience appeals prior to the Gypsy of the Year and Easter Bonnet 

Competitions. 

In appreciation of their enthusiastic efforts, BC/EFA grants a portion of the funds raised by these companies to AIDS service 

organizations in their native countries. These foreign charities are chosen and introduced to BC/EFA by the company members 

involved. Once their charitable status has been officially established by BC/EFA, a grant in the name of the company is wired overseas. 

The first of these international grants was a $5,000 donation made by BC/EFA to West End Cares (renamed Theatrecares in 

2002), our sister theatre-based AIDS fundraising organization in London. This grant honored the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 

production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that participated in the 1996 Easter Bonnet Competition while playing an acclaimed limited 

engagement at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. 

Since then, many performers from Broadway companies originating in London have very generously participated in BC/EFA’s 

fundraising efforts. These include: Sir Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren (The Dance of Death), Dame Judi Dench and Samantha Bond 

(Amy’s View), Petula Clark (the national tour of Sunset Boulevard), Sian Phillips (An Inspector Calls and Marlene), Alan Cumming and Natasha 

Richardson (Cabaret), Patrick Stewart (The Tempest), Elaine Page (Sunset Boulevard), Antony Sher (Stanley), as well as the companies of 

Closer, Swan Lake, Art, An Ideal Husband, The Chairs, and Blood Brothers. BC/EFA has also granted funds in the name of producers Bill 

Kenwright and Sir Cameron Mackintosh for their committed and ongoing support. Grants have also been made to The Actors’ Fund 

of Canada in honor of the Canadian actors in the first national touring company of Mamma Mia!, Oz Showbiz Cares in honor Hugh 

Jackman in The Boy from Oz and Baz Luhrmann’s Broadway production of La Bohème, and Theatrecares Crusaid in honor of Clare 

Higgins, Jochum Ten Haaf, and the cast of Vincent in Brixton. 

In 2004, BC/EFA sent grants totaling $262,894. 

The International grant-making program has expanded over the past eight years, most notably in grants made to AIDS service 

organizations in South Africa in appreciation for the efforts of the South African members of the Broadway and touring productions 

of The Lion King. 

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INTERNATIONAL GRANTS – DISTRIBUTION OF AWARDS 

1996-2002 

In its first four years, international grants totaling $465,000 were made to such organizations as West End Cares (London), 

14 organizations in South Africa, 2 organizations in Canada, The Kosovo Relief Fund, 2 organizations in Dublin, Ireland; and 

Oz Showbiz Cares (Sydney, Australia). 

2003 

theatre cares /crusaid (london, england) $ 10,000 

(in honor of Clare Higgins and Vincent in Brixton) 

the actors’ fund of canada (toronto, canada) $ 43,585 

(in honor of the Canadian actors in national tour of Mamma Mia!) 

oz showbiz cares (sydney, australia) $ 5,000 

(In honor of Baz Luhrmann and Broadway’s La Bohème) 

artists for a new south africa (los angeles) $ 5,000 

bumbanani creche (greytown, south africa) $ 15,000 

geluksdal’s women & children’s initiative (geluksdal, south africa) $ 10,000 

karabo foundation (johannesburg, south africa) $ 5,000 

kwa-thema (springs, south africa) $ 7,500 

living fountain ministry (middlebirg, south africa) $ 5,000 

buca project (mmabatho, south africa) $ 10,000 

n’kosi’s haven (johannesburg, south africa) $ 10,000 

prayer tower centre (mpumalanga, south africa) $ 5,000 

thabong dominican project (brakpan, south africa) $ 5,000 

thembelethu beaders (johannesburg, south africa) $ 67,900 

treatment action campaign (johannesburg, south africa) $ 5,000 

umlazi child care center (durban, south africa) $ 12,500 

(in h.onor of the South African actors in The Lion King) 

2004 

theatre cares/crusaid (london, england) $ 6,000 

(in honor of Eileen Atkins and Ben Chaplin in The Retreat from Moscow) 

the actors’ fund of canada (toronto, canada) $ 2,500 

(in honor of Mamma Mia!) 

oz showbiz cares (sydney, australia) $ 35,000 

(in honor of Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz) 

artists for a new south africa (los angeles) $ 10,000 

buca project (mmabatho, south africa) $ 12,500 

bumbanani creche (greytown, south africa) $ 15,000 

dominican counseling project (springs, south africa) $ 5,000 

fountain of salvation bible church (tembisa, south africa) $ 10,000 

geluksdal’s women & children’s initiative (geluksdal, south africa) $ 10,000 

karabo foundation (johannesburg, south africa) $ 5,000 

kwa-thema (springs, south africa) $ 10,000 

living fountain ministry (middlebirg, south africa) $ 5,000 

malawi children’s village (malawi) $ 5,000 

masizise hlabisa development (pinetown, south africa) $ 5,000 

molemong club (durban, south africa) $ 5,000 

n’kosi’s haven (johannesburg, south africa) $ 10,000 

phumelela higher primary school (johannesburg, south africa) $ 1,000 

prayer tower centre (mpumalanga, south africa) $ 5,000 

south africa development fund (boston) $ 11,500 

thabong dominican project (brakpan, south africa) $ 5,000 

thembelethu beaders (johannesburg, south africa) $ 94,394 

thusanang services (brakpan, south africa) $ 5,000 

treatment action campaign (johannesburg, south africa) $ 5,000 

umlazi child care center (durban, south africa) $ 10,000 

(In honor of the South African actors in The Lion King) 

total international grants (1996-2004) $ 881,479 

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EVENTS 

Thanks to the commitment of the celebrities and other vital members of the theatrical community 

who devote countless hours to our cause, BC/EFA not only raises desperately needed funds for the organizations, foundations and 

individuals nationwide who depend on our support, but does it in a way that’s fun for our supporters. 

The following pages present the highlights of a year of BC/EFA fundraising events, from October 1, 2003, through September 

30, 2004. 

The Gypsy of the Year and Easter Bonnet Competitions are the mainstays of the BC/EFA event roster and together raised a record-breaking 

$6.7 million this year! Both events mark the culmination of an intensive six-week fundraising campaign on Broadway, off-Broadway, 

and by the many national touring shows traveling across the country. 

Three other events loom almost as large on our yearly calendar: The Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, The Broadway Bears Auction, 

and Broadway Bares. The oldest of these is the Broadway Flea Market, which began as a table sale outside the stage door of A Chorus Line in 

Shubert Alley in the fall of 1986. In June 2004, we hosted our 14th Broadway Bares, which began as seven dancers cavorting for cash 

on a bar in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood and has become one of the most anticipated AIDS fundraisers – one many donors 

plan their summer travel schedule around. The Broadway Bears Auction may be the baby of our major events, but it has grown like a 

weed…or should we say…a bear. The creative enthusiasm brought to The Broadway Bears by the wardrobe and costume design 

community has earned it a yearly home at BC/EFA since 1998. In addition to our annual events, each year brings a collection of 

special fundraisers of every size and variety. 

The following pages also feature 2004’s high-profile one-time only events: Heather Headley’s acclaimed concert at The New 

Amsterdam Theatre, a staged reading of Auntie Mame by Charles Busch and an all-star cast at the John Jay College Theater, and The 

Broadway Inspirational Voices’ Gospel Celebration. All of these events are supported by many smaller events produced every year to 

benefit BC/EFA by individuals in the community that are not represented on the following pages – special cabaret performances, 

dance presentations, club shows, concerts, and much more. 

Each one is an important part of our annual fundraising calendar. Whether appearing with a hundred others in a bonnet 

presentation at the New Amsterdam Theatre or in a solo for an audience of twenty in a quiet club on the Upper West Side, by 

volunteering their time and talent, these dedicated entertainment professionals make BC/EFA’s grant-making efforts possible. 

The casts of Fiddler on the Roof and Avenue Q came together to present “Avenue Jew” – the award-winning skit at The Easter Bonnet Competition; 

cast members from Mamma Mia! at The Broadway Flea Market; Avenue Q’s John Tartaglia and “Rod” in rare bare form at Broadway Bares. 

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14TH ANNUAL 

GYPSY OF THE YEAR 

COMPETITION 

DECEMBER 8 AND 9, 2003 

THE PALACE THEATRE BROADWAY 

An extremely strong Broadway season helped push the 2003 edition of our annual Gypsy of the Year Competition to a whopping grand 

total of $3,359,533, with 58 Broadway, off-Broadway, and touring shows participating in vigorous fundraising efforts. 

The Boy From Oz and its star Hugh Jackman led the charge, bringing in an all-time record-breaking $632,998, substantially more 

money than any other show in BC/EFA history has raised in one six-week appeal period (nearly doubling Hairspray’s record-breaking 

numbers from 2002). 

Runners-up in fundraising included Hairspray with $303,024, The Phantom of the Opera with $155,964, Gypsy with $147,366 and 

Mamma Mia! with $133,286. The Broadway play that raised the most money was The Retreat from Moscow with $56,291, and the off- 

Broadway winner was Fame on 42nd Street, which raised $18,004. The top fundraiser among touring companies was the Mamma Mia! #2 

tour, which brought in $154,325. Tony Award®-winner Jackman, Gypsy’s Mama Rose Bernadette Peters, and Hairspray’s original Edna, 

Harvey Fierstein, announced the winners. 

Gypsy of the Year is about more than fundraising. It’s an opportunity for Broadway’s chorus men and women – many of whom are 

destined for headlining roles – to step into the spotlight and strut their stuff on a single stage. The 2003 awards were hosted by the 

droll duo of The Violet Hour’s Mario Cantone and Gypsy’s “You Gotta Have a Gimmick” girl Julie Halston. 

Show highlights included the cast of Mamma Mia! in “The Winter Garden Showchoir Strikes Back”; The Producers’ Matt Loehr, who 

choreographed and performed an athletic solo number “Break-Through You”; the cast of Little Shop of Horrors offered James Lipton – 

or a hilarious impersonation by Rob Bartlett – interviewing Audrey II in a special edition of “Inside the Actors’ Studio”; the 

unstoppable Lypsinka gave the audience a special holiday treat with “The 12 Daze of Christmas;” and cast members from Broadway’s 

delightful Avenue Q presented an original number, “In Our Neighborhood.” Past and current members of the long-running off- 

Broadway hit Naked Boys Singing came together to sing “Dreams,” written by Stephen Bates Baltes, who had recently passed away from 

AIDS-related complications. Producer Rosie O’Donnell made a special appearance with her cast from Taboo. 

The distinguished panel of judges included Delta Burke (who had recently made her Broadway debut in Thoroughly Modern Millie), 

Ted Chapin of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, as well as BC/EFA major donors Judy Dove, Barbara Ann Klein and 

Marion Duckworth-Smith. These judges, along with Jujamcyn VP and BC/EFA President Paul Libin, Priscilla Lopez (Anna in the 

Tropics) and Ned Walker of loyal BC/EFA corporate sponsor Continental Airlines chose a dance number by the cast of Aida as 

winner of the Judges’ Award for Best Presentation, with Urinetown, in its competitive swansong, a close runner-up. 

(clockwise) Rob Bartlett interviews Audrey II in a special edition of Inside the Actors' Studio, as brought to you by the cast of Little Shop of Horrors; the opening number – 

created by Christopher Gattelli, Seth Rudetsky, Matt Sklar, and Bill Ryall; The Producers’ Matt Loehr choreographed and performed an athletic solo number, “Break-Through 

You”; a surprise appearance by Urinetown’s Officer Lockstock and Little Sally – gentle, as ever; the cast of Mamma Mia! in “The Winter Garden Showchoir Strikes Back.” 

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GYPSY OF THE YEAR 

TOTALS THROUGH HISTORY: 

1989 $ 64,000 

1990 $ 92,000 

1991 $ 205,000 

1992 $ 445,000 

1993 $ 707,000 

1994 $ 802,000 

1995 $ 1,213,000 

1996 $ 1,262,000 

1997 $ 1,325,000 

1998 $ 1,751,000 

1999 $ 2,074,000 

2000 $ 2,056,000 

2001 $ 2,037,000 

2002 $ 2,623,000 

2003 $ 3,359,533 

TOTAL: $20,015,533 

MAKING HISTORY: GYPSY OF THE YEAR 

In the fall of 1989, the Broadway Cares “steering committee” met to discuss what new event might be jointly produced by the 

then two separate organizations, Broadway Cares and Equity Fights AIDS, that would capitalize on the shared success of the two 

groups’ most recent collaboration, that year’s Broadway Flea Market. While these two groups were three years away from a formal merger 

(which ultimately took place in May 1992), already it was clear that sharing revenue and resources was the future of AIDS fundraising 

in the theatre community. 

The group kept coming back to the success of the then three-year-old Easter Bonnet Competition. What would engage the Broadway 

community in another round of competitive fundraising that could also culminate in a variety show? Ideas were tossed back and forth 

across the committee table, but the group kept coming back to one: an afternoon to give “gypsies” a moment in the spotlight. 

The very first Gypsy of the Year Competition debuted on the stage of the St. James Theatre – then home to the smash hit revival of Gypsy 

– on November 28, 1989. Hosted by Gypsy stars Jonathan Hadary and Tyne Daly, directed by Michael Lichtefeld and produced by 

Maria Di Dia for Broadway Cares and Tom Viola for Equity Fights AIDS, the show featured gypsies from A Chorus Line, Black and 

Blue, Cats, Grand Hotel, Gypsy, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, Threepenny Opera, as well as 

representatives from The Heidi Chronicles, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and The Lady in Question. This fledgling event raised over $64,000. 

Everyone was thrilled. 

Over the next 16 years, new choreographers emerged from the ranks, and the quality of the events continued to improve. 

Audiences grew and a second performance was added, as Gypsy became one of the most sought-after tickets of the season. The casts 

from many more shows participated, fundraising efforts doubled, tripled and increased ten-fold. By the 7th annual edition, the $1 

million dollar mark was broken for total fundraising – a goal unthinkable even five years before. Four years later in 1999 a sold out 

audience of over 1,600 people at the Palace Theatre cheered when it was announced that the $2 million fundraising total had been 

reached for the first time. This year’s GYPSY OF THE YEAR raised a phenomenal $3,359,533 — over 50 times more than that first 

edition in 1989, when we swung the doors open at the St. James, hoping and working for the best. 

(left to right) A “faux” Kristin Chenoweth (aka Tia Marie Zorne) made a 'surprise' appearance in the Beauty and the Beast presentation; 

the opening number featured four veteran gypsies – Jennifer Smith, Harvey Evans, Patty Mariano, and Dana Moore; the number’s grand final pose; 

Hugh Jackman and the phenomenal company of The Boy From Oz. 

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THE 18TH ANNUAL 

EASTER BONNET 

COMPETITION 

APRIL 19 AND 20 2004 

The 18th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition – presented once again at Disney’s beautiful New 

Amsterdam Theatre – raised a record-breaking $3,439,075 for BC/EFA in six busy weeks of fundraising. A total of 44 theatrical 

companies participated in this fundraising success, with 23 Broadway shows bringing in a collective $2,694,372. Fourteen national 

tours came in with $667,821 and seven off-Broadway shows raised a total $84,986 to make the truly grand total of $3,439,075. Last 

year’s Bonnet competition raised $2,149,744. 

The top fundraising award went to The Boy From Oz, which brought in an amazing $539,058, part of an unprecedented total of 

$1,172,056 raised by this company for BC/EFA in just the first six months of its run. First runner-up was The Producers ($368,050), 

followed by Hairspray ($217,813), Wicked ($158,496), and Gypsy ($149,595). Finally, although there wasn’t a fifth runner-up award, our 

bonnets go off to the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera, which raised $123,633 through a combination of audience appeals 

and a labor-intensive effort of signing and selling 2,200 posters for $40 each. Additional fundraising prizes were given to the 

Broadway play that raised the most money, Golda’s Balcony ($78,654), the top-earning Off-Broadway production, Fame on 42nd Street 

($21,882), and the most successful national tour, Mamma Mia! ($151,829). 

This year’s opening number featured a take-off of “Come On, Get Happy,” rewritten as “Come On, Get Hatty “ by Drew Geraci 

and Seth Rudetsky. Choreographed by Denis Jones, directed by Geraci and with musical direction by Steve Marzullo, “Get Hatty” 

featured 16 of Broadway’s best dancers and (offstage) another 11 outstanding vocalists. 

Our very own Ziegfeld ‘girl’ – Doris Eaton Travis – made her 7th appearance for BC/EFA on stage at The New Amsterdam, where 

she first appeared over 80 years ago in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919 and 1920. After joining the dancers in a conga, Doris was 

surprised with a special cake marking her 100th birthday in March and received a standing ovation from the cheering house in honor 

of her gracious heart and grand spirit. 

Two highlights of the show included “Funny, Fast and Flawless” – the bonnet from 42nd Street and Aida’s Deborah Cox along with 

several male dancers from Aida presenting their bonnet accompanied by Deborah’s remixed dance version of “Easy As Life.” A “Fab” 

bonnet presented by the boys from the company of Movin’ Out and the “Star Child” bonnet presented by The Phantom of the Opera were 

other crowd pleasers. 

Best bonnet presentation was awarded to Avenue Q and Fiddler on the Roof, who joined forces to present a skit entitled “Avenue Jew.” 

The Producers claimed second prize in this category for a skit about gay marriage, which included a parody of Stephen Sondheim’s 

A truly grand, record-breaking total; stars of A Raisin in the Sun Sean Combs and Audra McDonald joined Harvey Fierstein in announcing the fundraising winners; 

“Temptation” the bonnet from The Lion King; Still in character as the former Israeli Prime Minister, Tovah Feldshuh came by from Golda’s Balcony (her one-woman show 

about Golda Meir at the Helen Hayes Theatre) to offer Golda’s interpretation of “Let Me Entertain You.” 

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EASTER BONNET 

TOTALS THROUGH HISTORY 

1987 $ 18,740 

1988 $ 51,757 

1989 $ 137,523 

1990 $ 226,819 

1991 $ 279,000 

1992 $ 500,049 

1993 $ 848,000 

1994 $ 1,001,649 

1995 $ 1,127,000 

1996 $ 1,304,525 

1997 $ 1,474,222 

1998 $ 1,793,137 

1999 $ 2,096,862 

2000 $ 2,129,168 

2001 $ 2,275,000 

2002 $ 1,826,392 

2003 $ 2,149,744 

2004 $ 3,439,075 

TOTAL $22,678,662 

“Getting Married Today.” Thoroughly Modern Millie won third prize in the bonnet presentation category for a moving performance 

entitled “Letters from Home," which incorporated “thank you” letters from Actors’ Fund clients and beneficiaries from BC/EFA’s 

National Grants Program. 

The afternoon featured guest hosts Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Ann Harada, Tovah Feldshuh, Randy Graff, Joe Machota, 

Michael Mulheren, John Tartaglia (and “Rod”), Christopher Sieber, Ron Kunene, and Tsidii Manye. Harvey Fierstein, Audra 

McDonald and Sean Combs announced the winners after Wicked’s Idina Menzel belted out the David Friedman anthem “Help Is On 

the Way.” 

BC/EFA is blessed to be a part of such an extraordinary theatrical family. And on behalf of the thousands of clients at The Actors’ 

Fund and hundreds of social service agencies across the country whose essential work will be supported by the funds raised, a very 

special thanks to all who made and continue to make these efforts possible. 

ONCE UPON A BONNET: EASTER BONNET HISTORY 

The precursor to the first Easter Bonnet Competition was an informal show instigated by wardrobe supervisor Gayle Patton in 1986 

backstage at the Palace Theatre during the original Broadway run of La Cage aux Folles. La Cage cast members dressed for a contest in 

which they were judged in the categories “Poise,” “Personality,” and “Talent.” The company voted by stuffing dollar bills into jars 

marked for each contestant. $1,200 was raised and donated to the then fledging AIDS service organization Gay Men’s Health Crisis. 

By 1990 the Easter Bonnet Competition had become the Broadway community’s premier AIDS fundraising event with funds now 

going to Broadway Cares. Produced by Susanne Ishee and a host of dedicated volunteers for its first eight years, the Easter Bonnet 

returned to the Palace Theatre in 1995 where it was produced for the first time by BC/EFA. In 1998, the show moved to the gloriously 

renovated New Amsterdam Theatre, its home ever since. Eighteen years and over 380 bonnets later, BC/EFA’s Easter Bonnet Competition 

is one of New York City’s most popular annual events and has raised over $22,678,662 – all still based on a whole lot of “Poise,” 

“Personality,” and “Talent.” 

(clockwise) Our very own Ziegfeld ‘girl’ - Doris Eaton Travis - made her 7th appearance with us on stage at The New Amsterdam, where she first appeared 

in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919 and 1920; Deborah Cox, starring as Aida, along with the boys from Aida, presented their bonnet to Deborah's remixed dance version 

of “Easy As Life”; the cast of Naked Boys Singing! — nearly naked and, of course, singing; the bonnet from off-Broadway’s Menopause, the Musical. 

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BROADWAY BEARS VI 

FEBRUARY 15, 2004 

Theater fans and teddy bear collectors came together on February 15, 2004, for Broadway Bears VII: 

A Grand Auction – an event featuring a cuddly chorus line of 40 one-of-a-kind teddy bears, each meticulously outfitted in original, 

handmade costumes by Broadway’s leading costume designers and representing memorable characters from plays and musicals, past 

and present. Auctioned off to the highest bidders, the bears raised $127,210 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 

Bryan Batt hosted and BC/EFA stalwart Lorna Kelly served as auctioneer for the seventh edition of this growing Broadway 

tradition. Celebrity presenters and audience members included Lucy Arnaz, Bebe Neuwirth, Mary Bond Davis, Michael McGowan 

and Christine Pedi. One of the auction’s highlights was Susan Hilferty’s replica of Idina Menzel’s Elphaba from Wicked, which sold 

for an impressive $10,000. Featured bears inspired by the animal kingdom included a rhino from The Lion King ($2,600) and one 

based on Toad from Frog and Toad ($2,400). Avenue Q’s Stephanie D’Abruzzo signed her bear, which featured her holding a mini Kate 

Monster. Other popular bears included Carnival’s Paul Berthalet, signed by the late Jerry Orbach, which sold for $3,200, and Kiss 

Me, Kate’s Petruchio, signed by Brian Stokes Mitchell, which went for $3,000. An unusual creation inspired by Little Shop of Horrors – 

featuring Hunter Foster as Seymour Bear and a baby Audrey II – brought in $2,400. 

This year’s auction raised an impressive $127,000, bringing the cumulative grand total of money raised since 1998’s original 

auction to just under $1 million. 

The skill and imagination devoted to the creation of these coveted collectibles has been recognized worldwide, from The 

Museum of The City of New York – where 10 bear alumni reside as part of the permanent costume collection – to media acclaim 

as far away as England and Japan. In addition, noted designers such as Bob Mackie have created original bears for these auctions. 

For this year’s auction, Mackie designed Lorelei bear, based on Carol Channing’s lovable gold digger in the musical Lorelei and 

signed by Miss Channing. 

BC/EFA is very grateful to the creative and talented artists who designed, outfitted, costumed, draped, frocked, dressed, shod, 

hatted, painted, armored, tattooed, stuffed, “lipoed,” wigged, bejeweled and feathered the Broadway Bears – and in doing so created 

truly one-of-a-kind, museum-quality pieces for auction. BC/EFA is also indebted to The North American Bear Company for 

generously donating now hundreds of bears – each of which went out a bare bear and came back a star! 

Tovah Feldshuh and the Golda Meir bear created by Trevor McGinness, complete with ever-present cigarette; Carole Shelley and “Elphabear,” created by Eric Winterling; 

Whoopi “Goldbear” created by Arnold S. Levine; Into The Woods’ Milky White, created by Zoe Morsette; Mack’s Mabel, created Gene Barth; Miriam Carlin with her creation of 

the Lion from The Wiz; Hairspray’s Tracy Turnblad, created by Vita Buscemi; and Boy George as Leigh Bowery as created by Carelli Costumes, Inc. 

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BROADWAY BARES XIV 

JUNE 20, 2004 

Broadway Bares 14: Now Showing, the 2004 version of the spectacular that grins and bares it, brought 

in $525,000 for BC/EFA, $18,000 of which was collected in sweaty dollar bills tucked into the sparkling g-strings worn by 200 of 

Broadway’s hottest dancers. This success tops our total from 2003 by a whopping $75,000, and culminates in a grand total of 

$2,825,000 raised since the event’s first edition in 1991. 

Every year for 14 years, Broadway Bares’ creator and original director/choreographer, Jerry Mitchell, has convinced a group of 

Broadway professionals to take it off for a good cause. 

Titillating titles from past years included The Barest Show on Earth, Peep Show, Calendar Girl, A Comic Strip, 2001: A Strip Odyssey, and Knock, 

Knock: Who’s Bare. Broadway Bares 14, which took over Roseland Ballroom on June 20, was directed by Mitchell’s protégé, Jodi Moccia, 

and choreographed by Moccia and a stellar dance team. 

Broadway Bares 14 took on the movies, featuring dance sequences inspired by Flashdance, Rocky, James Bond, Chariots of Fire, and 

even a moment from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

Antigravity performed a skit based on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – appropriately renamed ‘”Crotching’ Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 

– featuring an acrobatic appearance by gymnast and dancer Matthew Cusick. Hollywood’s golden days were honored in “Going 

Bananas,” which blended the comedy of the Marx Brothers with outrageous costumes and dance moves inspired by Carmen Miranda. 

Special guests included Into the Woods’ Christopher Sieber and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Jai Rodriguez, Swoosie Kurtz, Patrick 

Cassidy, Shirley Jones, and Paige Davis of Trading Spaces and Chicago plus, Avenue Q’s John Tartaglia and “Rod” in a cameo from Scream. 

Las Vegas-based aerial troupe The Living Art of Armando – an audience favorite – pulled off a sexy acrobatic feat, spinning from 

a sphere in midair as their costumes appeared to melt away, while Aaron Vexler and Mike Moran of the Las Vegas troupe Axiom 

presented a specialty number “For the Boys.” 

Following the finale came a reminder of what all the glitz and gaiety was for: a generous check for $75,000 from The MAC AIDS 

Fund and MAC Viva Glam presented by MAC CEO John Demsey to Broadway Cares. With the support of MAC, our sold-out crowd, 

and our volunteers and volunteer dancers, we’ve created a unique way to raise money to help people living with AIDS and their 

families that now has become an annual “rite of spring” for over 5,000 aficionados of Broadway, dance, the flash of well-toned 

muscle and a bit of booty. All, of course, for a good cause. 

(left to right) A highlight of the evening was the appearance of special guests Aaron Vexler and Mike Moran of 'Axiom’; 

“Going Bananas” featured Brad Aspel, James Leo Ryan and Denis Jones as Chico, Harpo and Groucho; “Yo Adrian” featured Keith Kuhl; this year’s Bares poster boy, 

Eric Otte showed a side we've never seen of “Bond, James Bond.” 

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18TH ANNUAL 

BROADWAY FLEA MARKET 

AND GRAND AUCTION 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2004 

We escaped the remnants of Hurricane Ivan and Sunday morning skies cleared for the 18th edition of 

what some have come to call “Broadway’s Annual Company Picnic." Over 30,000 enthusiastic theatre fans shopped, schmoozed and 

gawked their way through Shubert Alley as the best of NYC’s theatrical community united to make our last major fundraising event 

of fiscal year 2004 a rousing success. 

Fifty-three tables representing Broadway and off-Broadway shows, unions, management offices and theatre-related businesses 

all pitched in, selling everything from signed memorabilia, Playbills, posters, baked goods and one-of-a-kind handmade items, 

raising a total of $192,064. Top performers included: United Scenic Artists ($16,923), Wicked ($12,788), Avenue Q ($11,944), 

Broadway Beat ($14,022), Broadway.com ($9,022), The Phantom of the Opera ($6,076), and The Producers ($5,443). 

Over $12,000 was raised at the Celebrity Table and Photo Booth where stars from Broadway and daytime television signed 

everything imaginable for their fans. Broadway’s Bernadette Peters, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bebe Neuwirth, Richard Thomas, Tonya 

Pinkins, Mario Cantone, Isabel Keating, Stephanie J. Block, Beth Fowler, Gary Beach, Joey McIntyre, Roger Rees, Tom Hewitt, 

Marian Seldes, Carole Shelley, Tovah Feldshuh, Joe Machota, Peter Scolari, Michael McKeon, John Tartaglia, Andrea McArdle and 

Tony Roberts were among the more than 90 stars who dropped by for an hour to meet and greet. 

The Silent Auction – which featured 73 items sold over a five-hour period – raised $35,000. Bidding was led by a Hirschfeld 

drawing of Gwen Verdon ($2,700). Two musical phrases from Avenue Q - written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx - also received high 

bids, earning $2,200 and $1,800. Mel Brooks’ handwritten musical phrase “When You Got It, Flaunt It," from The Producers, sold 

for $1,600. 

As has become tradition, The Grand Auction closed the day’s festivities. Auctioneer Lorna Kelly led the charge as another $172,400 

was raised from such items as: a walk-on in The Phantom of the Opera ($8,500); two VIP tickets and a backstage visit to Bette Midler’s 

show at Radio City ($7,500); additional walk-ons in Rent ($6,800), Fiddler on the Roof ($6,000) and 42nd Street ($4,500), as well as two 

VIP tickets to the opening night performance and party for La Cage aux Folles. 

Continental Airlines, The New York Times, and Ford Motor Company were this year’s major corporate sponsors. As always, we are 

grateful to the hundreds of theatrical professionals who joined forces to make this day possible and the tens of thousands of theatre 

fans who in turn made it fun and profitable for BC/EFA. 

(clockwise) The crowd in front of the annual Celebrity Table on W. 45th Street and Shubert Alley; cast members from The Lion King selling special memorabilia; another table 

loaded with wares for sale from 42nd Street; BC/EFA Trustee Maria Di Dia and Bebe Neuwirth, the star of Maria’s off-Broadway musical hit Here Lies Jenny; Neil Shastri from 

Bombay Dreams auctioned off his own drawing of the stars of Bombay Dreams with the help of auctioneer Lorna Kelly. 

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BROADWAY 

BARKS 6 

JULY 10, 2004 

HOW IT ALL BEGAN 

The Broadway Flea Market had an inauspicious start. In 1987, 

the event debuted as two tables presented by the company of A 

Chorus Line outside their stage door in Shubert Alley as a part of the 

first Equity Fights AIDS week, raising what was thought to be an 

astonishing $7,000. Over the next four years, under the 

leadership of Ethel Bayer, Stephen Falat, Arne Gundresen and 

Larry Hansen, the Flea Market grew, adding tables from more 

shows, theatre-related offices, unions, and guilds – everyone 

recognizing a good cause and a great chance to clean house. In 

1988, the organizers added an auction of eight lots, but without 

an experienced auctioneer on hand, the event sputtered to a 

finish. In 1989, Sotheby’s Lorna Kelly came on board as our 

official auctioneer and, by adding her expertise, a truly “grand” 

auction was born. Today the Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction 

draws thousands of devoted theatre fans and members of the 

theatre community to Shubert Alley and the adjoining area along 

44th Street. As they say, from little acorns…Specifically, over 16 

years (1987-2004), this event has raised nearly $6 million! And 

we’re still signing posters, gathering swag, and cleaning closets 

and auctioning one-of-a-kind theatrical experiences for a good 

cause. 

BC/EFA’s great friend, Broadway’s David Masenheimer, stands proudly in front 

of his extraordinary display representing the day's Grand Auction; 

two from the celebrity table, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Bernadette Peters. 

The Broadway community came together between 

performances on a midsummer Saturday afternoon, finding 

homes for more than three dozen animals and raising an 

impressive $70,000 for 25 participating shelters around New 

York City. 

Hosted by founders Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler 

Moore and special guest host Julie Halston, 2004’s lineup of 

celebrity pet presenters – who all came by Shubert Alley eager to 

help find homes for a wonderful collection of critters – and their 

shows, included: Jennifer Barnhart, Jordan Gelber, John 

Tartaglia and Natalie Venetia Belcon (Avenue Q); Gary Beach, 

Brad Oscar and Angie Schworer (The Producers); Michael Cerveris, 

Mario Cantone, Denis O’Hare and Neil Patrick Harris (Assassins); 

Tonya Pinkins and Veanne Cox (Caroline, or Change); Sandra 

Joseph and Hugh Panaro (The Phantom of the Opera); Shirley Jones 

and Patrick Cassidy (42nd Street); Christy Carlson Romano (Beauty 

and the Beast); Isabel Keating, Michael Mulheren, Beth Fowler and 

Stephanie J. Block (The Boy from Oz); Paige Davis and Chris Sieber 

(Chicago); Micky Dolenz (Aida); Rachel York, Elizabeth Berkeley 

and Eric Stoltz (Sly Fox); Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked); Laura 

Linney (Sight Unseen); Swoosie Kurtz (Frozen); Donna Murphy and 

Jennifer Westfeldt (Wonderful Town); Audra McDonald (A Raisin in 

the Sun); Patrick Page (The Lion King) and the legendary Eartha Kitt. 

And a doggone good time was had by all. 

www.broadwaybarks.org 

One of the many dogs who found loving homes at Broadway Barks; 

Kristin Chenoweth had instant rapport with this cute little one; Eartha Kitt, Broadway 

star and the infamous “cat woman” of Batman fame…with what else, a kitty! 

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THE ANNUAL 

GOSPEL 

CELEBRATION 

OCTOBER 19, 2003 

AUNTIE MAME: 

THE READING 

NOVEMBER 24, 2003 

The BC/EFA fiscal year begins on October 1. On 

that day, every year, the “fundraising odometer” rolls back to zero 

and we start again. It seems somehow fitting that our first major 

event of the fiscal year was The Broadway Inspirational Voices 

special 10th Anniversary Concert of gospel music at New York’s 

historic Town Hall. 

Star Jones hosted and our special guest, the legendary Patti 

LaBelle, joined the Voices in a grand finale. The Broadway 

Inspirational Voices is a gospel ensemble founded and musically 

directed by Michael McElroy, a well-known Broadway performer 

and BC/EFA Trustee. The Inspirational Voices is comprised of 

an impressive roster of singers from current and recent Broadway 

shows such as Aida, Beauty & the Beast, Cabaret, Hairspray, The Lion King, 

Mamma Mia!, The Producers, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rent, Man of 

La Mancha, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kiss Me, Kate, Jekyll & Hyde, Smokey 

Joe’s Cafe and The Music Man. For the last ten years, The Gospel 

Celebration has helped its audience to feel strength in our 

common humanity, as people of all faiths and backgrounds come 

together to celebrate as a community a higher power that 

underlines every faith. Over 50 voices strong, The Broadway 

Inspirational Voices sold out Town Hall and filled the hearts of 

those in attendance with a light-hearted and joyous enthusiasm, 

as it marked the beginning of the BC/EFA fundraising season 

The Broadway Inspirational Voices at Town Hall; Without a doubt, 

the highlight of the evening was the legendary Patti LaBelle's appearance as guest 

artist, joining the Voices on their performance of “Shake Yourself Loose”; 

Aisha de Haas brings it home with “Go Tell It.” 

Actor/playwright Charles Busch met a larger-thanlife 

challenge when he took on the part of Auntie Mame, the title 

role in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1956 play, and one 

long-identified with the legendary Rosalind Russell. 

Based on the bestseller by Patrick Dennis, our Auntie Mame 

dream cast, led by Mr. Busch and directed by Richard Sabellico, 

featured Marian Seldes as Vera Charles, Swoosie Kurtz as Agnes 

Gooch, Anthony Edwards as Beauregard Burnside, Rue 

McClanahan as Mother Burnside, Christopher Sieber as Older 

Patrick, T.J. Larke as Young Patrick, and Valerie Harper as the 

Master of Ceremonies. Also participating in this incredible 

evening were Alan Aisenberg, Lucie Arnaz, Dylan Baker, Michael 

Berresse, Glory Crampton, Ray DeMattis, Alison Fraser, Hans 

Frederichs, Diane Findlay, Beth Howland, Charles Kimbrough, 

Douglas Sills, Sarah Uriarte Berry, and B.D. Wong. In a special 

guest appearance, veteran actor Cris Alexander recreated his 

performances from the original 1956 Broadway production, as 

Cousin Jeff and Mr. Loomis (Mame’s manager at Macy’s). It was 

a delight to meet Mr. Alexander – who also created the roles of 

Chip and Frank Lippincott in the original Broadway productions 

of On the Town and Wonderful Town. 

Special thanks for making the evening possible go out to 

Deborah Robison and Janet Waldo Lee for the generous permission 

on behalf of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee estates. 

Mame's pals – played by Douglas Sills, Marian Seldes, Michael Beresse and 

Christopher Sieber – meet Gloria Upson, played by Sarah Uriate Berry; Special guest 

and legendary Broadway star Cris Alexander recreating his 1956 performance as 

Mr. Loomis with a 2004 version of Sally Cato, played by Lucie Arnaz; TJ Larke 

and Charles Busch as Young Patrick and his Auntie Mame. 

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NOTHIN’ LIKE 

A DAME 

MARCH 1, 2004 

HEATHER 

HEADLEY IN 

CONCERT 

MAY 27, 2004 

There’s nothing like Nothing Like a Dame. Presented 

by BC/EFA on March 1, at the St. James Theatre, the popular 

event raised $250,000 for The Phyllis Newman Women’s Health 

Initiative of The Actors’ Fund. Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodard, 

and Tovah Feldshuh were among the celebrity hosts for this 9th 

annual production. Laura Benanti, Kathy Brier, Carolee 

Carmello, Kathleen Chalfant, Victoria Clark, Kate Clinton, 

Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Christine Ebersole, Lauren Flanigan, 

Bebe Neuwirth, Julie Halston, Ann Harada, Amanda Green, Dee 

Hoty, Kate Monster, Christine Pedi, Tonya Pinkins, Chita 

Rivera, Camille Saviola, Liz Smith, and Gay Willis were also on 

the roster of luminaries appearing at the event. 

Chase Brock and Rob Berman conceived this year’s opening 

number, with Brock providing choreography and Berman the 

arrangement and orchestration. Mary-Mitchell Campbell 

conducted and provided musical direction ffor the number, 

which featured a dancing chorus of red-gloved Dames and four 

singing and dancing soloists: Sutton Foster, Nancy Lemenager, 

Mamie Duncan Gibbs and Karen Ziemba. Among the many 

highlights was a recurring comic bit by legendary leading lady and 

Tony Award ® winner Zoe Caldwell (playing a stagehand!) and 

audience favorite Idina Menzel, closing the first act with her 

show-stopping song “The Wizard and I” from Wicked. 

The opening number of Nothin’ Like A Dame featured a dazzling collection of 

Broadway’s loveliest; Camille Saviola and Chita Rivera regret the lack of 

“Class”; opera star Lauren Flanagan and Kathleen Chalfant perform a duet 

from Tosca, in song and word, accompanied by Miriam Charney; 

Phyllis Newman is gently encouraged to move through her remarks by our 

special stagehand, legendary actress Zoe Caldwell. 

Broadway and pop star Heather Headley – a longtime 

friend of BC/EFA, best known to New York audiences for 

her performance as Nala in The Lion King and her Tony Award® - 

winning work in Aida – returned to the city of her earlier 

triumphs for a one-night-only concert event entitled “Home." 

Before a full house, the curtain came up on Heather in 

silhouette in front of musical director Rob Mathes and an 18- 

piece orchestra. The star’s assured handling of the evening’s 

signature song, “Home” from The Wiz, let the audience know that 

in the three years since she played her last performance in Aida, 

she had lost none of the shimmering sound that had made her a 

Broadway favorite. The first act continued with Headley’s superb 

versions of such Broadway favorites as “Nothing," “My Heart 

Belongs to Daddy” and “His Is the Only Music That Makes Me 

Dance.” Clay Aiken, fellow RCA recording artist and American 

Idol contestant, brought the act to a close with the duet “Can You 

Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King. 

The second act broke out of the Broadway mold and opened 

with a smoking version of Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” and 

featured four numbers from Heather’s Grammy-nominated gold 

CD “This is Who I Am.” Michael McElroy and The Broadway 

Inspirational Voices joined Heather on the rousing gospel 

numbers “Someway, Somehow” and “Never Leave Me Alone.” 

Heather closed the show with a very emotional encore of “If It 

Wasn’t for Your Love” from her CD. 

Tony Award ® winning star Heather Headley; fellow RCA recording artist 

and American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken joined Heather and brought down the house 

with The Lion King's “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” Aida co-star Adam Pascal 

joined Heather on one of their duets from the show, “Written in the Stars.” 

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NATIONAL SUPPORT 

A strong commitment to BC/EFA extends far beyond New York City. In regional, stock, and dinner 

theatres across the country, as well as in cities that play host to Broadway’s national touring shows, casts come together as they do in 

New York to raise funds continually for BC/EFA. 

Broadway’s national tours are BC/EFA’s ambassadors on the road. Without the added administrative expense of official chapters 

in cities across the country, BC/EFA is able to raise funds through autographed poster sales and curtain speeches as companies travel. 

These efforts raise hundreds of thousands of dollars each year and are an important piece of the financial support BC/EFA provides 

through the National Grants Program to many AIDS service organizations in the very cities visited by the national tours as they wind 

their way across the country. These special appeals have been made by such touring shows as 42nd Street, A Few Good Men Dancin’, Aida, 

Beauty and the Beast, Blue Man Group, Chicago, Flower Drum Song, Hairspray, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Movin’ Out, The Phantom 

of the Opera, The Lion King, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Urinetown. 

Cast members from many tours go to the added effort of presenting special cabaret evenings in local clubs of theatres, the 

proceeds of which are then shared with local AIDS organizations and BC/EFA. However you measure it, the generous efforts of our 

friends on the road amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars that go back through BC/EFA to local AIDS service organizations 

nationwide. 

Fourteen years ago, the first “Equity Fights AIDS Week” was declared. What was then the Equity Fights AIDS Committee sent 

letters to every equity theatre asking that an appeal be made during Thanksgiving Week. That first year brought in over $70,000 from 

a few dozen theatres. Over the years, more local theatres joined in what turned into annual efforts, and in 1992, EFA Week became 

BC/EFA Week, a fundraising tradition which continues to this day. More importantly, over time, many regional theatres became 

allied with their local AIDS service organizations, raising funds for them as the national tours do for BC/EFA. Some theatres 

continue to do both. The Actors’ Playhouse at The Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables, FL; the Sacramento Theatre Company, CA; 

the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, MA; Portland Center Stage, OR; Syracuse Stage, NY; Actor’s Theater of Louisville, KY; 

Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park, OH; Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA; Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, PA; North 

Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, MA; Connecticut’s Goodspeed Opera House, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, NC; Arena Stage in 

Washington, DC; Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA; New Jersey’s Papermill Playhouse, and Hartford Stage, CT are just a 

few of BC/EFA’s stalwart supporters across the country. Our thanks go out to each and all. 

One of BC/EFA’s greatest ongoing national supporters is the Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron, Ohio. In 2004, seven of its musical productions raised over $41,000! 

(Miss Saigon is pictured); The Merry Go-Round Theatre’s production of Show Boat in Auburn, New York raised $1,535; the smash hit production of 

Smokey Joe’s Café at the Oqunquit Playhouse in Maine raised over $14,000 during the course of its summer run. Jacques Brel at the Stuart Street Playhouse 

in Boston raised more than $1,000. 

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SCHOOLS OUTREACH 

PROGRAM: 

THESPIAN FUNDRAISING 

In 2004, the money raised through our BC/EFA Schools Outreach Program almost doubled – from 

$46,000 to $83,000 – as did our opportunities to inspire theatre departments in middle schools, high schools and colleges across 

the country to take on active roles in HIV prevention education. 

Nearly all theatre students love Broadway, so it’s no surprise to us that they would want to get involved in what the professional 

community does to support us. Many school groups attend shows during our Easter Bonnet and Gypsy of the Year campaigns, where they 

contribute to the donation buckets, stay for question and answer sessions with the casts, and buy autographed posters. So when we 

suggest that they undertake similar projects on our behalf during their own production seasons, most readily agree. In fact, they often 

go the extra step to come up with their own production concepts and fundraising campaigns. Some schools have written and designed 

their own shows about AIDS, while others have taken the opportunity to turn their “AIDS benefits” into week-long awareness 

campaigns involving the AIDS Quilt, guest speakers from our office and from their local organizations (many of which are BC/EFA 

grantees), and even live auctions and donation drives for BC/EFA. 

Teacher and parent response continues to be positive. These projects help students develop self-respect and social advocacy skills 

while learning compassion and increasing their own awareness of HIV. Our outreach efforts help spread the word about BC/EFA in 

both rural and urban areas across the country. To date, we have registered schools from Maine to California that contribute anywhere 

from hundreds to thousands of dollars apiece. We’ve been invited to theatre festivals and school conferences to present workshops 

on the work that we do here, and to speak about the local AIDS organizations that we support in their respective cities and towns. 

On top of the work they do for us on their own stages, many students from nearby schools visit New York to volunteer for 

BC/EFA’s regular calendar events. High school troupes (and their families) from all over the tri-state area have traveled to Shubert 

Alley to help at the Annual Broadway Flea Market each September, while New York City college students lend production and fundraising 

support throughout the year. This new generation of volunteers is essential to BC/EFA and to the Broadway community as well. Many 

hope to make a life for themselves here in the theatre after they graduate. They’re learning early in their careers that theatre is about 

so much more than just performing – it’s about coming together as a community. 

We are proud to recognize the International Thespian Society and the Educational Theatre Association, as our strongest and 

largest supporters in high schools across the nation. We are also grateful to have both the New York State Theatre Education 

Association (NYSTEA), and Alpha/Delta Psi Omega – the national theatre college fraternity/sorority – as our new partners in the 

fight against AIDS. 

Students hold a benefit concert at their school for BC/EFA; International Thespian Society student officers work the Broadway Cares Flea Market in Shubert Alley; 

Indian River students promote AIDS Awareness and raise funds for BC/EFA at the annual NYSTEA conference in upstate New York. 

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BROADWAY 

ON EBAY 

Our eBay auctions began as a way of making lemonade out of a fundraising lemon. It rained during 

the 2001 Broadway Flea Market, drying out most of the buying and bidding action at that day’s auction. Rather than store our 

merchandise for another year, we put various objects up for auction on eBay to see how they’d sell. They sold and they’ve continued 

selling ever since. From that lucky bit of bad luck, a successful new BC/EFA fundraising initiative was born: Broadway Cares Auctions 

on eBay. Since then, these auctions have become a uniquely lucrative fundraising initiative – a profitable endeavor we stumbled on 

in an unexpected way. In 2004, 818 items sold for a collective $104,565, an increase over 2003’s total of $92,000. 

Autographed playbills and posters as well as props, costume pieces, exclusive opening night gifts, and one-of-a-kind theatrical 

memorabilia have all contributed to this very successful campaign. Stand-out items from fiscal year 2004 included a signed poster 

from Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, which sold for $657; a conductor’s score from Fiddler on the Roof, which went for $585, and one of our 

most successful auction items ever – tickets and party passes to the closing night of Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz, which sold for an 

amazing $15,567. Other items included signed posters from Wicked ($320) and The Producers ($392); a “goody bag” from the Tony 

Awards® ($300); and a festive piñata decorated in the image of Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ($182). Obviously, other 

items went for less, but all added up to a very profitable year for BC/EFA on eBay. 

SIGNING FOR A CAUSE: BROADWAY SHOW POSTERS 

In addition to the direct financial support BC/EFA provides to hundreds of AIDS and family service organizations, we regularly 

receive requests for signed Broadway show posters that can be included in fundraising auctions and raffles across the country. Last 

year, over 620 signed show posters were sent in packages of 6-10 to 64 AIDS service providers to enhance their ability to raise funds 

in their local communities. 

It is no small favor to ask the casts of Broadway shows to sign dozens of posters, month after month, year after year. In addition 

to thousands sold for BC/EFA in theatres and by BC/EFA on eBay, hundreds more are sent by BC/EFA to agencies that would 

otherwise never have this kind of unique fundraising resource. 

Consider this: 620 signed posters at $100 each (and many are auctioned for much more) add up to $62,000 in additional 

revenue to dozens of grassroots organizations across the country. Our sincere thanks to everyone in any show who has ever taken pen 

to poster and signed their name once, twice, a dozen times, or until their hands hurt. 

(clockwise) Just a few of the one-of-a-kind (ok, maybe two) theatrical memorabilia sold on eBay by BC/EFA: an original crystal from the chandelier in 

The Phantom of the Opera; a Broadway Flea Market poster signed by over 50 celebrities in attendance; the wooden stake and mallet used to dispatch the “undead” in 

Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula; signed posters from Avenue Q and The Boy from Oz; and a hand-written phrase of “I Am My Own Best Friend” 

signed by Chicago’s composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb. 

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RETAIL 

OUTREACH 

THE CATALOG OF GIVING AND THE BROADWAY CARES COLLECTION 

The primary goal of the Retail Outreach Program is to promote AIDS awareness and visibility for BC/EFA. In pursuit of this 

goal, BC/EFA makes the classic Red Ribbon available for free or at cost to AIDS service organizations and individuals nationwide. 

The retail Catalog of Giving (in print and online at www.broadwaycares.org) appeals to Broadway enthusiasts and collectors across 

the country, presenting an impressive array of Broadway-related goods and paraphernalia, such as autographed theatre-related books, 

compact discs, videos on VHS and DVD, opening night gifts, and exclusive red ribbon gift ideas for the holidays and year-round 

occasions. 

Posters and T-shirts from BC/EFA events continue to be popular with those supporters around the country who can’t actually 

be here in person. One of our biggest successes is The Broadway Cares Collection – featuring one-of-a-kind collector items created 

especially for BC/EFA with over twenty Broadway musical logos adorning an ornament, tote bag, coffee mug, beach towel, throw 

blanket, charm bracelet, collector’s plate, mouse pad and T-shirt. The most popular item continues to be the Broadway Cares snow 

globe, again featuring Broadway musical logos, which has collectors anticipating each year’s new original design. In fiscal year 2004, 

The Catalog of Giving generated $545,801 in sales, topping 2003’s total of $494,000 by over $50,000. 

The Retail Outreach Program also forges relationships with other AIDS service and fundraising organizations by agreeing to 

include their products in the BC/EFA catalog. All silkscreen printing of BC/EFA merchandise, such as our popular T-shirts, is by 

Night Sweats & T-Cells, an Ohio based shop owned and operated by people living with HIV/AIDS. Many of the handcrafted items 

offered in the catalog come from The Alpha Workshops in Manhattan, where all artisans and trainees are people living with HIV/AIDS. 

South Africa-based Thembalethu Beaders provides all hand-beaded items that are made by women living with HIV/AIDS. 

CARETIX 

The CareTix program offers BC/EFA supporters access to the best seats in the house for Broadway, off-Broadway, Radio City 

Music Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and national touring company shows in exchange for a 

charitable donation equal to the face value of the ticket price. CareTix tickets are house seats, normally reserved for entertainment 

industry insiders, which means that CareTix buyers get the very best seats in the house to shows that are often already sold out to the 

general public. Since 1988, CareTix has raised more than $10.9 million, generating $1,718,729 in fiscal year 2004 alone. 

The Broadway Cares mug, the 2004 Broadway Bares calendar, the annual Carols for a Cure holiday CD; Christmas balls from “The Broadway Cares Collection”; 

African holiday ornaments handmade by women from The Thebelethu Beaders in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

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CORPORATE 

SUPPORT 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was fortunate to have the continued support of a broad range of 

corporate donors in 2004. As one of the largest charities representing Broadway and the American Theatre, Broadway Cares is able 

to connect major corporate brands with some of the nation’s foremost creative industries. We are also able to ensure that a 

corporation’s support reaches into nearly every community in the country through our National Grants Program, and our corporate 

partners are able to build brand loyalty among the millions of people who are in some way associated with Broadway, be it on tour, 

onstage, backstage, or in the audience. 

Companies can partner with BC/EFA on a broad range of projects, including one-time event sponsorship, annual sponsorship 

packages covering a series of events, cash and in-kind donations that directly support our programs, and specialized cause-related 

marketing initiatives. 

With the creation of Broadway Delivers! in 2001 (see opposite page), a new way for Broadway Cares and corporations to work 

together was born. Many of the events that BC/EFA produced through Broadway Delivers! were originally produced for existing 

corporate clients such as Anheuser-Busch and Target, but this program has also provided a great way to bring new corporations into 

the Broadway Cares family. 

We salute the generous companies that provided major support of our programs in 2004. 

The official airline of Broadway and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 

The official print media sponsor of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 

Viva Glam 

The official web partner of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 

John Demsey, Chairman of MAC Cosmetics and President of the MAC AIDS Fund presents Jerry Mitchell and 42nd Street stars Patrick Cassidy and Shirley Jones 

with a check for $75,000 for Broadway Bares (MAC also provided all the makeup and 50 MAC pro-team makeup artists); Ford Motor Company joined BC/EFA’s largest annual 

sponsors, Continental and The New York Times, in sponsoring the Broadway Flea Market; Anheuser-Busch’s Michelob Light presented $50,000 to BC/EFA 

as part of its sponsorship for the Broadway Show League. 

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BROADWAY 

DELIVERS! 

CUSTOM CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT 

Broadway Delivers! is a fundraising initiative of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS created in 2001 

to provide customized Broadway-style entertainment for a wide variety of corporate functions. This year’s events included a movie 

premiere, a restaurant opening, a fashion show, a product launch, and book festivals across the country. 

BC/EFA’s production expertise and access to the deep well of talent both on and off-Broadway has resulted in our being able to 

successfully provide entertainment whenever and wherever a corporation needs it. Broadway Delivers! draws on the phenomenal 

commitment of the theatre community to Broadway Cares, offering the guaranteed magic of “Live Broadway,” along with the 

marketing and production expertise associated with the best of the “Great White Way.” 

A corporation makes a contribution to BC/EFA, and BC/EFA recruits and rehearses celebrities and Broadway performers, 

accompanists, and stage managers, customizing an official Broadway revue to match the company’s needs. BC/EFA supplies 

everything from one singer to an entire evening’s entertainment, and tailors the performance to the company’s event and theme. 

In fiscal year 2004, BC/EFA was able to bring a touch of Broadway to the following events around New York and across the 

country. In November 2003, we partnered with HBO to present a Broadway insiders’ premiere screening of Angels In America. Two days 

later we were downtown at the Accessories Council ACE Awards where we “delivered” Tom Wopat as MC and several leading ladies – 

including performers from Mamma Mia!, Nine, Hairspray, and Aida – to accept an award. That same evening we celebrated the opening of 

Applebee’s Restaurant in the theatre district with stars from neighboring musicals like Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma Mia! and Avenue Q. 

February brought the Tonner Doll Fashion Show and an appearance by Cabaret’s Kate Shindle to accept a check on our behalf. 

In March, to promote Swoops, its latest snack food, the Hershey’s Store unveiled the newest addition to its Times Square sign, and 

we produced an encore Broadway Delivers!, bringing out the “Swoops Dancers” to celebrate the event. Bebe Neuwirth, along with 

Kathy Brier and “The Dynamites” from Hairspray, joined in the festivities. 

Also in 2004, Anheuser-Busch renewed its annual commitment to Broadway Cares and The Broadway Show League. Broadway 

Delivers! helped celebrate by bringing out celebrities to the Opening Day of the show league, with stars singing the National Anthem 

and throwing out the first pitch. Successful events with long-term corporate partner Target included The LA Times Festival of Books, 

Chicago Tribune Printers’ Row Book Fair, The Boston Globe Book Festival, and New York is Book Country. These festivals start in the spring 

and continue through the fall, giving Broadway Cares a chance to reach into communities nationwide. 

"Schoolhouse Rock" presented on the Target Stage at the LA Times Festival of Books; Hairspray's "The Dynamites" sing "Welcome to the 60's" as they welcome Hershey's 

Swoops to Times Square; Eartha Kitt and Jamie Lynn DiScala at The Accessories Council ACE Awards; Kate Shindle at The Tonner Doll Fashion Show. 

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DANCERS 

RESPONDING TO AIDS 

(DRA) 

Dancers Responding to AIDS is the American dance community’s ongoing response to the health crisis, 

rallying the dance world to raise money to provide direct assistance to dance professionals living with HIV/AIDS, as well as to AIDS 

service organizations nationwide. These funds are distributed through The Actors’ Fund of America (see page 6), and through 

BC/EFA’s National Grants Program (see page 12). The following are DRA’s signature events during fiscal year 2004: 

THE REMEMBER PROJECT 2003 

The Remember Project, a remembrance to those lost and living with HIV/AIDS, returned to Danspace at St. Mark’s Church on 

December 6, 2003. More than 200 performers participated in this 12-hour vigil-in-motion, which lasted from noon to midnight. 

Dance groups represented included Susan Marshall & Company, The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, 

Elisa Monte Dance, Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Pilobolus, American Ballet Theatre, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Chinese Folk 

Dance Company, Battleworks, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Lawrence Goldhuber. 

An unforgettable highlight was one of the final performances by Homer Avila, a dancer/choreographer who lost his right leg and 

hip to a rare form of cancer. Avila passed away just a few months later on April 25, 2004. An inspiration to so many in the dance 

community, he continues to be missed. 

JOINING FORCES WITH THE FUTURE OF DANCE 

DRA is thrilled that young dancers across the country are joining professionals in their fundraising efforts. In 2004, more than 

$160,000 was raised through bake sales, special dance classes and audience appeals through our Studio of the Year program. With 

assistance from dance organizations like the New York City Dance Alliance and Tremaine Dance Convention, dance studios raise 

money for the opportunity to win trips to London or Los Angeles. During the summer of 2004, Marietta, GA’s Rhythm Dance 

Center (which raised almost $25,000) earned a trip to London to perform at Sadler’s Wells, while Topeka, KS’s Dance Factory 

(which raised $7,000) learned it would be traveling to Los Angeles to perform at a premier dance gala. 

The DRA Dance Invitational with special guest, Broadway’s Christopher Sieber, and over 100 dancers from seven studios across Los Angeles; 

Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble perform in DECADE at The Fire Island Dance Festival; enthusiastic audience members outdoors at Danskin’s Ballroom in Bryant Park 

spontaneously joined in the finale. 

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DECADE: 10 YEARS OF THE FIRE ISLAND DANCE FESTIVAL 

In July of 2004, Dancers Responding to AIDS presented DECADE, the tenth year of the Fire Island Dance Festival, a tremendously 

successful event that raised more than $160,000. During the past decade, we’ve seen this critically praised celebration of dance 

become one of the most anticipated social events of the Pines’ summer season. Alan Cumming emceed the three performances at this 

year’s Festival, held at the bay-front home of Beau Clarke. Performers included classical and modern dancers from the Martha 

Graham Dance Company, Limón Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and 

American Ballet Theatre. The weekend of festivities began on Friday night with a Hawaiian VIP leadership cocktail party at the 

beautiful home of William Hayden and Ron Perkov. A highlight of Friday’s event was the appearance of a troupe of hula dancers and 

slack-keyed guitar players who entered from the bay via canoe! 

NEW YORK CITY FESTIVAL OF DANCE 

July 19 through August 6 marked Dancers Responding to AIDS’ New York City Festival of Dance. Activities ranged from benefit 

performances to master classes. 

Artists of all ages and from all spheres of the dance world – from Broadway to the concert stage – came together to perform in 

the main stage performances of Dancing for Life! in Bryant Park. The free outdoor performances showcased such troupes as 

Buglisi/Foreman Dance and ballet star Julio Bocca and his Ballet Argentino. Two New Jersey dance studios, The Art of Dance and 

Denise Daniele Dance Studio, who tirelessly raised money for DRA throughout the year, performed along with Dance Masters’ Mr. 

and Miss Dance of America. On August 5, in conjunction with 106.7 LITE FM, DRA presented Broadway Dances, which featured 

dancers from 42nd Street, Bombay Dreams, The Lion King and Movin’ Out. A highlight was Wicked’s Idina Menzel singing her own 

composition. Also that evening, Danskin sponsored Ballroom in Bryant Park, featuring performances by Dance Times Square, Stepping 

Out Studios, American Ballroom Theatre, and Blackpool competitors Christian Barens and Kristina Staykova. 

Homer Avila appeared in over half a dozen editions of The Remember Project. Avila died in April 2004. We remember him fondly; 

American Ballet Theatre’s Danny Tidwell dances across the waters at The Fire Island Dance Festival; dance students from Topeka Kansas won a trip to Los Angeles from 

The Tremaine Dance Experience. Broadway’s Felicia Finley leads the dancers in Joe Lanteri’s “Hit Me With a Hot Note” at Broadway Dances in Bryant Park 

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CLASSICAL ACTION: 

PERFORMING ARTS 

AGAINST AIDS 

Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS merged with BC/EFA in October of 1997. Founded 

in 1993 using BC/EFA as a model, Classical Action draws on the talents, resources, and generosity of the performing arts community 

nationwide, with an emphasis on the classical, jazz, and opera communities, to raise funds for AIDS services. These funds are 

distributed primarily through The Actors’ Fund of America (see page 6) and BCEFA’s National Grants Program (see page 12). 

Classical Action maintains its own identity and conducts its own fundraising endeavors, while BC/EFA assumes most administrative 

responsibilities, allowing Classical Action to devote maximum energies to its events and other fundraising activities. 

THE MICHAEL PALM SERIES 

The inaugural Michael Palm Series matched in financial success what it achieved in artistic excellence, raising more than 

$250,000. Underwritten by The Michael Palm Foundation, the series was established in memory of Michael Palm and in honor of 

his support of the arts and HIV/AIDS causes nationwide during his life. Classical Action is fortunate to be the beneficiary of a fiveyear 

grant to support the series, which consists of four annual concerts: three in New York City, all at the home of Judy and Steven 

Gluckstern, and one in a city outside New York. 

The opening concert of the 2003-04 season featured charismatic superstar pianist André Watts on November 16, 2003 

performing a program of Schubert, Chopin and Debussy. On March 8, 2004, violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Simon Mulligan 

once again donated their services for a Classical Action benefit, giving the audience a preview of their imminent nationwide recital 

tour. The lovely Deborah Voigt, one of opera’s most beloved sopranos, performed with pianist Brian Zeger on April 1, 2004 with 

a program ranging from Schubert and Tchaikovsky to Ives and Sondheim. 

The “out-of-town” Michael Palm Series concert took place this season with a Texas-native performing in front of a Texas crowd. 

April 15, 2004 marked the third and most successful collaboration between Classical Action and Houston’s Center for AIDS with a 

concert featuring Tony Award®-winner Betty Buckley. Ms. Buckley’s cabaret-style program, with accompaniment by pianist Kenny 

Werner, brought the attraction of a glamorous nightspot to the living room of hosts Mike and Becky Cemo’s River Oaks home. 

UP OUR ALLEY VI: CLASSICAL ACTION’S SIXTH ANNUAL BENEFIT BOWLING BONANZA 

The heart and soul of wacky fundraising party Up Our Alley is the performing arts community – from artist managers to orchestra 

members to record companies – who formed 36 bowling/fundraising teams this year to raise a record $77,000 for people living with 

Isn’t she lovely?.. Deborah Voigt had us in the palm of her hand; Violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek share an intense musical moment; Larry Lovins and 

Center for AIDS Board Member Steve Loden were instrumental in the production of Betty Buckley’s benefit house concert in Houston. 

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HIV/AIDS. After three hours of bowling at New York City’s Bowlmor Lanes, the party continued at their upstairs party space, 

“Pressure.” Prizes were awarded in fundraising categories to Downtown NYC River to River Festival’s “Bowling Greens” and G. 

Schirmer’s “Bowllet mécanique,” among others. In more inventive categories, Best Team Name honors were given to “Shabbat 

Shabowl” (Tisch Center for the Arts) and “The Anna Bowlenas” (Opera News), and the Best Team Costume was proudly donned by 

Orchestra of St. Luke’s team members “Britney Spares.” Sponsors of Up Our Alley 6 included WQXR 96.3 FM and ViceVersa 

Restaurant, with the participation of Izze Beverage Company. 

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME: CLASSICAL ACTION HOUSE CONCERTS 

One of Classical Action’s most successful fundraising endeavors is the production of private house concerts. Supporters host 

concerts in their homes featuring some of the most prominent artists in music today, who generously agree to donate their time and 

talent. These events are not always initiated by Classical Action. This past fiscal year, jazz singer Audrey Silver spearheaded a house 

concert in New York City in May; Aaron Mendelsohn offered his Santa Monica, CA home for a house concert in November 2003 

by pianist Emanuel Ax; and a trio comprised of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, pianist/conductor André Previn, and cellist Lynn 

Harrell performed in the elegant Upper East Side (NYC) home of Steve Hellman and Katharine Hsu. Our Annual Appreciation 

Concert, exclusively for Classical Action Maestros (major donors), took place in May at the home of Judy and Steven Gluckstern and 

featured a dynamic performance by violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek. 

SUMMER IN THE CITY: ADDITIONAL CLASSICAL ACTION COLLABORATIONS 

Six events provided additional support for Classical Action during the summer months in 2004 through the generosity of our 

friends in the presenting community. The River to River Festival & Pace University, in association with Classical Action, presented 

Summer Stars, a 5-week concert series featuring some of today’s most exciting young artists in classical music. These free performances, 

which took place at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, showcased the talents of pianists Kit Armstrong and 

Natasha Paremski and the Imani Winds Quintet, among others. On August 20, 2004, further uptown, the Mostly Mozart Festival 

and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts donated a portion of each ticket sold to that concert to Classical Action. The evening’s 

performers themselves, from orchestra members to soloist Joshua Bell and conductor Louis Langrée, made contributions in support 

of our work. 

Bellisimo – violinist Joshua Bell appears on The Michael Palm Series; “The Britney Spares” from Orchestra of St. Luke’s show off their winning team costume 

at Up Our Alley 6; Pianist André Watts shakes hands with 12-year-old “colleague” Kit Armstrong, who performed the opening concert for Summer Stars; 

Audience members were seated just feet from the Mutter-Previn-Harrell Trio during the performance. 

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THE MAESTRO 

PROGRAM 

The Maestro Program, Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS’s annual giving program for major 

donors, pays tribute to individuals who invest $1,000 or more in the work we do on behalf of HIV/AIDS service organizations and 

programs nationwide. Every great Maestro knows that each section of the orchestra, whether strings, woodwinds, brass or percussion, 

plays an important role in creating an overall sound. Similarly, those who contribute to The Maestro Program know that whatever giving 

category they choose, their contribution helps orchestrate the success of Classical Action, thus ensuring the future of AIDS services 

across the country. 

CONCERTMASTERS 

($25,000 and above) 

American Express Company 

Judy and Steven Gluckstern 

Michael Palm Foundation 

STRINGS 

($10,000 - $24,999) 

Annalee Newman Fund 

John and Sophie Bilezikian 

in loving memory of Sara Bilezikian 

Downtown NYC River to River 

Festival 

Elizabeth and Stephen Eisenmann 

in memory of Michael Palm 

Jay M. Furman 

Gail Furman 

Jim and Ellen Marcus 

Paul L. Newman 

Sandra Wagenfeld and 

Francine Goldstein 

in memory of Robert Wagenfeld 

Simon Yates and Kevin Roon 

WOODWINDS 

($5,000 - $9,999) 

Helen Bodian and Roger Alcaly 

Michael and Rebecca Cemo 

Foundation 

Scott Dunn and Robbie Moray 

Brandon Fradd 

Steve Hellman and Katharine Hsu 

The Irene Diamond Fund 

Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Friedrike Merck 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Peabody 

Kenneth Rosenberg Foundation 

in memory of Frank A. Imperato 

Dr. Howard Scheiner 

Frank Spring 

in memory of Malcolm Hoare 

Wheelock Whitney III 

WQXR – 96.3 FM 

William H. Wright II 

George R. Zuber and Guy Avni 

Anonymous 

BRASS 

($2,500 - $4,999) 

Josh Aronson 

Raymond A. and Barbara F. Carye 

Columbia Artists Management, 

Inc. 

Mrs. Catherine G. Curran 

Eva and Brendan Dillon 

Charles Dimston 

Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels 

Foundation 

Jeffrey and Helen Friedman 

Mary Rodgers and Henry Guettel 

Mark M. Levin 

Jean E. Merrill 

Adam Mizel and 

Taunya Van Der Steen-Mizel 


Linda and Stuart Nelson 

Veronica G. Ogden 

Josephine Bay Paul and C. 

Michael Paul Foundation 

in memory of Daniel A. Demarest 

Carol A. Rennie 


Jane Scovell 

in memory of Peter Ansin 

Ted Snowdon 

Ted and Vada Stanley 


Universal Classics 

ViceVersa Restaurant 

Sara Wolfensohn 

PERCUSSION 

($1,000 - $2,499) 

Jerome and Fanchon Apfel 

Richard P. Baks 

Mrs. Nancy Pierce Brumback 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Carye 

Dr. Oscar Chamudes 

Michael Cohen 

Sylvie and Gary Crum 

William J. III and Carol Drawe 

Mary Lou Falcone and 

Nicholas Zann 

José Feghali 

David Finckel and Wu Han 

Jan and Milton Finegold 

Rita and Herbert Z. Gold 

Maria and Noah Gottdiener 

Kathy Griffin 

Kevin Guyer 

The Hargrove Pierce Foundation 

in honor of Charles Hamlen 

Harry Hjardemaal and 

Philip Claps 

Florette Hoffheimer 

Suzanne C. Hoyt 

George and Eileen Hricik 

Rockwood Jenkins 

Christopher Kennedy 

in memory of Jim Ricketts 

Alice Kornhauser 

Louis Langrée 

Stephanie and Edgar Larsen 

LHW – Leading Hotels of the 

World / Frosch International 

Travel 

Harvey Lichtenstein 

Steve Loden and Larry Lovins 

Kay H. Logan 

Bert Melnick and Carl Moore 

Geoffrey and Sophie Menin 

Ginni and Richard Mithoff 

Barney and Ann Mizel 

Shelly and Jerome Mulanax 

John Vlahoplus and 

Uma Muthu 

Cherrie L. Nanninga 

Bob Naparsteck 

Sheila Porter 

Dana and Doug Ramos 

Carol Relihan and John Arthur 

Conrad Riggs 

Susan and Elihu Rose 

Dale and Peter Ryan 

San Francisco Performances 

András Schiff 

The Seaberg Foundation 

Harold Shaw 

Howard Solomon 

Fran Sorin 

Jeffrey Sosnick and 

Albert A. Carucci 

Stevens/Bandes Graphics 

Lee Tannen and Tom Wells 

Ellen Thrower 

Cindy Booth Van Schaack 

Shelby White 

The Wise Family Charitable 

Foundation 

IN-KIND 

MAJOR DONORS 

Attitude New York Chauffeured 

Transportation 

Bösendorfer New York 

Cohn Davis Communications 

Jackson Hicks 

Merrill Corporation 

Fred Patella 

Playbill Magazine / Playbill.com 

Steve J. Sherman Photography 

Steinway & Sons 

Represents donations made in our 2004 

fiscal year, October 1, 2003 – September 

30, 2004. 

the maestro program 

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THE ANGELS 

CAMPAIGN 

Angels are supporters who make total annual donations of $1,000 or more to support the vital work 

of BC/EFA. These gifts are especially important, as they provide us with a dependable core of donors whose gifts are not related to 

the purchase of merchandise and/or event tickets. These funds go directly into our pool of grant-making dollars, which are in turn 

distributed to HIV/AIDS service organizations nationwide, as well as to the numerous social service and housing programs of The 

Actors’ Fund of America. 

In Broadway lingo, an “angel” is an investor in a theatre production. In exchange for that financial investment, angels are 

traditionally guaranteed the best seats in the house for the shows their dollars make possible. The Angels Campaign creates a similar 

tradition for its supporters, granting BC/EFA Angels VIP status, along with a host of associated benefits. 

2004 ANGELS CAMPAIGN 

The following individuals, family foundations, and corporations made contributions to The Angels Campaign in our fiscal year 

2004 between October 1, 2003 and September 30, 2004. Names in bold indicate BC/EFA Archangels, angel donors who increased 

their unrestricted giving by 25% or more over the past year. 

PRODUCER 

(gifts of $25,000 and up) 

Laura M. Boedeker 

Cable Positive, Inc. 

H. Van Ameringen Foundation 

Anita Jaffe 

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS 

Foundation - San Francisco 

The Shubert Foundation 

HOUSE SEATS 

(gifts from $10,000 to $24,999) 

The Edgar Foster Daniels 

Foundation 

Gary Gunas and Bill Rosenfield 

Anne Hathaway 

Paul Libin and 

Florence Rowe Libin 

Joe Masteroff 

Paul L. Newman/Newman’s Own 

Rosie O’Donnell 

in honor of George O’Dowd, Chris 

Renshaw, Jeff Calhoun, John 

McDaniel, and Mark Dendy 

Thomas Schumacher and 

Matthew White 

Bradshaw Smith/Broadway Beat 

State Farm Insurance 

Companies 

The Hargrove Pierce Foundation 

The League of American Theatres 

and Producers 

The Ted Snowdon Foundation 

in memory of Lori Schmidt 

William Morris Agency 

Anonymous 

in honor of Kristin Chenoweth 

ORCHESTRA SEATS 

(gifts from $5,000 to $9,999) 

Roger Berlind 

Bertsch Family Charitable 

Foundation 

in honor and in memory of 

“Wagon Wheelies” 

Aron Bromberg – Aron 

Bromberg/Abe Raskin 

Partners Fund 

The Edith Meiser Foundation 

William W. Donnell 

Dr. Gerald J. & Dorothy R. 

Friedman Foundation 

Aaron Frankel 

in loving memory of 

Abetha Aayer Frankel 

Freddie and Myrna Gershon 

Harriet and 

Terry Guin-Kittner 

Jerome S. Glazer, Inc. 

Ronald and Patricia Lee 

Stephanie and 

Carter McClelland 

Paul L. and Marion J. Ross 

Sean L. Sunkel 

The Barrington Foundation, Inc. 

Doris Eaton Travis 

W New York - The Court 

Wexner Family Fund 

BOX SEATS 

(gifts from $2,500 to $4,999) 

Sam Altman 

in memory of Murray Schapiro 

Frank Argiro 

in loving memory of Robert Argiro 

Steven Schnepp and Mark Basile 

in memory of Paul Penfield and 

John Heppenstall 

Melvin Bernhardt and Jeff 

Woodman 

Briggs, Inc. 

William Ludel and Tracy Cohen 

Ellora deCarlo and 

Gary J. Cooper 

William Craver 

Mark and Susan Dalton 

Merle Debuskey & Pearl Somner 

James W. Dennis 

Jamie deRoy 

in memory of Rod Hausen 

Maggie Flanigan and Richard Dow 

Edward and Lori Forstein 

JP Morgan Chase 

Marianne Ganzer 

in memory of John Ganzer 

Tim Gill 

Louise Guthman 

William S. Hoover, MD 

James C. Hormel 

Carl Jacobs 

George M. Jacobstein - 

Rose Brand 

Billy and Kate Joel 

in honor of Manny & Lani Azenberg, 

the “Movin’ Out” NYC and Tour 

Company, Cast & Crew, Hal Luftig, 

Terry Allen Kramer, Andy Snyder, 

Donald Trump & Melania Knauss, 

Jann Wenner & Matt Nye, Bob 

White, and Walter Yetnikoff 

Joelson Foundation 

Michael A. Leppen 

Kevin R. Lyle 

Jerry Mitchell 

Phyllis Newman 

in memory of Adolph Green 

Gilbert Parker 

in memory of Richard Bauman 

Ruso D. Perkins 

Charles L. Ross 

in memory of David Carroll 

Amy Sherman-Palladino 

Margaret (Peg) Small 

in memory of Erik 

Society of Stage Directors and 

Choreographers 

The Cooper Family Foundation 

The Students of the Stella Adler 

Studio of Acting 

in memory of Casey Kizziah 

The Kaufmann Family 

Foundation 

The Ziegfeld Club 

Tina and Jeffrey Bolton 

Family Fund 

Jay Laudato and Tom Watson 

Whittier & Associates, Inc. 

FRONT MEZZANINE 

(gifts from $1,000 to $2,499) 

Joe Allen Restaurant 

David G. Armstrong and 

Jeffrey Miller 

in honor of Todd Coroliuc 

Jerry Arrow 

Scott Barnes 

honoring the second half century for 

CCM grads of 1976 

William J. Behan 

the angels campaign 

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THE ANGELS CAMPAIGN (continued) 

Joe and Nancy Benincasa 

Phil and Mary Beuth 

Robert Billig 

Mr. Walter Bobbie 

Robert Bouchard 

J. Arthur Brost 

Caffe Cielo 

Buck Henry Charitable Fund 

Robert Callely 

Frank Carucci 

in honor of Maria Di Dia 

Stockard Channing 

Paula and David Chase 

Edward A. Chernoff 

Karen Christofferson 

Michael Clowers and 

Clay Chaffin 

Jo Ann Albano Cohen and 

James A. Cohen 

Thomas Cott 

in memory of Philip Carlson 

Peggy Cowles 

Cunningham - Escott - Dipene 

& Associates, Inc. 

Scott Dainton 

in honor of Laura Mantell 

Hermine Douglas 

Roy and Shirley Durst 

Charitable Fund 

Ellen M. Violett and Mary P.R. 

Thomas Foundation, Inc. 


Don Ellwood and Sandra 

Johnigan 

Peter Entin and 

Barbara Janowitz 

William Eppel 

Angelina Fiordellisi 

Jules Fisher 

Mary Fogarty 

David A. Friedman 

in memory of my mother 

Shirley Friedman 

John Garcia’s “The Column” 

Theatre Awards 

Neal C. Garelik 

Jay Garner 

Contemporary Theatre 

Steven Gartner 

Bruce Geismar 

Roger Alan Gindi 

Dale and Ellyn Glasser 

in memory of Steven Glasser 

Angela Goldberg 

Robert D. Gonzales 

in memory of Cameron L. Mason 

and Charles H. Falls 

Michael Greif 

in honor of the “Rent” Company 

Benjamin M. Hammer and 

Rachel Hammer 

Harry Winston, Inc. 

in honor of Jefferson Mays 

Jeffrey Hayenga and 

Michael Belanger 

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Henshel 

Jerry Herman 

Robert C. Hickman 

Craig Horowitz 

Theatrical Stage Employees 

Local One/IATSE 

Jill Goodson Family 

Foundation 

Jason Kantrowitz 

Elaine Kend 

Robert Kilgore and 

Edward Richmond 

in loving memory of Dee Kilgore 

Caryn B. Klein-Cohen 

Nathan Lane 

Norma Langworthy 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lasdon 

Leftfield Productions 

Lindy Linder 

in memory of Robert Farber and 

Christine Swann 

Janine and Peter Lowy 

William Ludel and 

Tracy Cohen 

John J. Mackerey 

Macy’s East Inc. 

J. Patrick Mahoney and 

Martin Hicks 

Arif and Latife Mardin 

Marsh Inc. 

Kathy Keneally and Tom Marshall 

Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher 

Foundation, Inc. 

Marin Mazzie and Jason 

Danieley 

in memory of Gary Bonasorte 

John McDaniel 

Bill Melamed, Jr. 

The Janis and Alan Menken 

Foundation 

Keith Miller 

Michael S. Mills 

Ira Mont and Jill Cordle Mont 

Mrs. Claire Mooers 

in memory of Ruth Hoefgen 

NAC Enterprises Ltd. 

Judith A. Nelson 

in memory of Wayne McCarthy 

Michael F. O’Donnell 

One World Incentives, Inc. 

Sally Ann Parsons - 

Parsons-Meares, Ltd. 

in memory of Lee Danser 

Ralph L. Pellecchio and 

Dr. James C. Wernz 

Heinz Poll 

in memory of Thomas R. Skelton 

L. Glenn, Jeffrey, Alex & Marc 

Poppleton Finn 

Judy Rasmuson and 

Ronald Wallace 

Richard E. Rauh 

Long Beach Longriders 

in honor of Bill “Uncle Bill” Sapsis 

and in memory of Victoria “Tory” 

Odum-Reed 

Richard F. Walsh/Alfred W. Di 

Tolla/Harold P. Spivak 

Foundation 

Drs. Carlos and Jayne Rivera 

Mickey Rolfe 

Rosalind and Eugene J. Glaser 

Foundation 

Amy Rosenthal 

Lori Rubinstein and John 

McGraw 

Bikram Yoga 

Samuel L. Phillips Family 

Foundation 

Nick Scandalios 

Serino/Coyne 

Angela Shaw 

Jeffrey B. Soref 

Meryl Streep 

Charles H. Svensson 

Beech Street Foundation 

The McGaw Foundation 

The Eisner Foundation 

The Lodestar Foundation 

The Ritter Foundation, Inc. 

David and Deborah Trainer 

Video Industry AIDS Action 

Committee 

Orso Restaurant 

Phil and Merle Wahl 

Joan Melber Warburg 

Arthur E. Webster, Esq. 

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Wilson 

Margo Wintersteen 

Terrence J. Witter 

Anonymous 


Anonymous 

in memory of Martin Worman 

Anonymous (6) 

the angels campaign 

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MAJOR 

DONORS 

In addition to The Angels Campaign, significant funds are generated through various BC/EFA annual 

and one-time special events, such as The Easter Bonnet Competition, Gypsy of the Year, The Broadway Flea Market, and Broadway Bares. Considerable 

financial support also comes to us through our CareTix and CareCard programs. Contributions from all these sources are among 

the most vital to BC/EFA. 

The following pages list the names of those who have supported these events and programs with contributions of $1,000 or more 

during our fiscal year 2004 from October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2004. Amounts listed are the tax-deductible portion of the 

donation, the total gift amount minus any fair market value for goods received. 

GIFTS OF 

$50,000 AND ABOVE 

Estée Lauder Inc. 

Target Stores 

The League of American Theatres 

and Producers 

GIFTS FROM 

$10,000 TO $49,999 

Terry Abernathy 

Meridee Alter 

James Bashor 

Ronald Black 

BMG Bertelsmann 

Celebrity Blackjack 

The Cooper Family Foundation 

Danskin, Inc. 

James W. Dennis 

done and dusted@radical, llc 

Tim and Judy Dove 

Edelman Public Relations 

Worldwide 

Federated Department Stores 

Foundation 

Ford Motor Company 

Brandon Fradd 

Mr. Neal C. Garelik 

Gill Foundation 

Charles and Heather Golden 

Diane L. Gott 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Halpern 

HBO 

HSBC Bank USA, Inc. 

Hugh Jackman 

Anita Jaffe 

Joe Lanteri 

Learning on Location 

Connie Nicoud 

Schaeffer Family Foundation 

Noriko Takigawa 

The Adam R. Rose 

Foundation 

William Goldman - The Fezzik 

Foundation, Shapiro & Lobel 

The Grosevnor Foundation, Inc. 

Theatre Vendors, Inc. 

Tonner Doll Company 

Trackdown Productions, Inc. 

Twentieth Century Fox Home 

Entertainment 

Heloise Waislitz 

Robert M. Wallach 

Washington Drama Society, Inc. 

Weil Foundation 

Anonymous 

GIFTS FROM 

$5,000 TO $9,999 

Accesories Council 

Allco Finance Corp. 

Apple-Metro, Inc. 

Michael and Maureen Benton 

Lawrence A. Bock 

Elizabeth Breslow 

Beth Brody 

Ellora deCarlo and Gary J. 

Cooper 

Gail Corvette 

Creative Artists Agency 

Thomas Dimercurio 

Jean Doede 

Marianne Dorfman 

Paul Driscoll 

Steven G. Einhorn 

Debra Faiello 

Patricia Geoghegan 

Linda Hammer 

David A. Harris 

Laura and J. M. Hartstein 

Mickey Z. Heller 

Regina Y. Hicks 

Sally Huxley 

Jim Beam Brands Co. 

John Johnson 

Sandra Kallenberg 

Robert Karp 

David DonHowe Kean 

in loving memory of Norman and 

Gwyda DonHowe Kean 

Maureen E. Kershaw 

Susan L. Kruger 

David Lai 

Las Vegas Academy of 

International Studies 

Lawrence H. Levy 

Lord & Taylor 

Carolyn Lowen 

Dennis Malaney 

Merck Partnership for Giving 

Richard Nacht 

National Association of Insurance 

Commissioners 

Paul L. Newman/Newman’s Own 

Carole W. Nussbaum 

On & Off Broadway 

Joseph Palumbo 

Mary A. Papagjika 

Dean Piearson 

Anthony T. Ponturo 

David S. Pottruck 

Donald Puryear 

Ronald B. Reck 

Rockwell Architecture, 

Planning & Design, PC 

William J. Ruehle 

Maryetta Saccomano 

Susan J. Sampliner 

Dr. Howard Scheiner 

Anthony P. Scheinman 

Howard Schwartz 

Mr. Barry Skovgaard and 

Mr. Marc Wolinsky 

The Ted Snowdon Foundation 

Colleen D. Sorensen 

R.W. Soria 

SPI Marketing, LLC 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stretton Jr. 

The Dance Factory 

The Imperial Court of N.Y., Inc. 

The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation 

Matching Gift Program 

The New York Hairspray Co., LP 

Times Square Alliance 

John Travolta 

Union Station Foundation 

Phil and Merle Wahl 

Scott Wittman 

Anonymous 

GIFTS FROM 

$2,500 TO $4,999 

Albert & Pearl Ginsberg 


Christie L. Alexander 

Association Of Nurses In AIDS 

Care 

Michael C. Baldwin 

Carol Bayer Sager 

Douglas W. Bloss 

Carolyn P. Blum 

Sara L. Boles 

Kyle Bowker 

Katherine B. Bradley 

David Braver 

Alan Braverman 

Briggs, Inc. 

May L. Briggs 

Beverly Burch 

Patrick J. Callahan 

Mr. and Mrs. David Canary 

Chelsea Fund, Inc. 

Todd Ciccarone 

Sandra K. Cohen 

Mary Collins 

Computer Associates 

James J. Conway 

Suzanne E. Corso 

Bridget Crudo 

major donors 

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MAJOR DONORS (continued) 

Diana Cuca 

Peter David 

Debra M. Davis 

Roseanne Delaglio 

Leonard L. Destefano 

Shari Douglas 

Judith Drasner 

Patrick S. Durkin 

Empire Force Events, Inc. 

Ronald Falcon 

Charles A. Ferrell 

Elisabeth A. Finley 

Beth Waters Finston 

Frances J. Frawley 

Izumi Furukawa 

Melinda A. Gartzman 

Suzanne Gawron 

Paula Gerber 

Freddie and Myrna Gershon 

Michael Gluck 

Julie Goldsmith 

Michael C. Goodell 

Nancy K. Goodman 

Joan Gotti 

Todd Graff 

Monica Graham 

Joan M. Grande 

Andrew J. Greenhut 

Michael S. Greenly 

Joseph M. Gregory 

Richard Grey 

Michael Gross 

Nancy T. Grumbacher 

Richard V. Hamilton 

Wendy Hashmall 

William Haskell 

Melissa Heider 

Tanya Henneman 

Janet M. Illiano 

Karen L. Issokson-Silver 

Joseph M. Jacobs 

Jammy Productions, Inc. 

Jewish Communal Fund 

Curtis Johnson 

Junior Bus Tours, Inc. 

Michael S. Kaufman 

Douglas Warren Kesten 

Cynthia C. Kimmel 

Barbara Ann Klein 

in tribute to my city, New York 

Miryam L. Knutson 

Beth R. Kryger 

Rhonda P. Kyong 

Ilona D. Lardis 

Albert R. Lepage 

Diane Lippert 

Jessica G. Liu 

Katherine W. Lum 

Craig Martone 

Peter W. May 

Casey L. McClellan 

Anthony G. McLean 

Sandra T. McManus 

C. E. Miller 

Chase Mishkin 

Robert A. Nectow 

Claire Parr 

Kathryn H. Penske 

Katherina A. Perry 

Judy Lynn Prince 

Pro Musica Tours, Inc. 

Samuel A. Ramirez 

Mr. G. Remak Ramsay 

Lori J. Raymond 

Madeline Reed 

Amy M. Reid 

Grace M. Renna 

Susan Romano 

Philip D. Ryan 

Helen L. Ryu 

Junko Sasaki 

Barbara C. Schneider 

Julie R. Schneider 

Lynda Schuler 

Thomas Schumacher and 

Matthew White 

Jean E. Scott 

Elizabeth A. Sechrest 

Serino Coyne Advertising, Inc. 

Sigma Alpha Iota 

William S. Skowronnek 

Marion D. Smith 

Jerry Sokolow 

Alan Spen 

Annette C. Steiner 

Ray Sterling 

Kathryn L. Stettner 

Stonewall Community Foundation 

Arielle Tepper 

The Bessie Ratner Foundation 

The Shubert Organization, Inc. 

The Ziegfeld Club 

George H. Turner 

Sherri L. Tuso 

United Way of New York City 

Margret E. Valenti 

Vinton A. Vickers 

Doug Weinstein 

Ann Weiss 

Deborah Williams 

Wisdom Digital Media, LLC 

Gretchen G. Wood 

Young Presidents Houston 

Chapter 

Anonymous 

in honor of Kristin Chenoweth 

Anonymous 

GIFTS FROM 

$1,000 TO $2,499 

Dianne M. Abruzzo 

Mark C. Adams 

Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher 


John L. Albanese 

Kate Aldinger 

Kenneth Alpert 

Nancy Alpert and Gwen Marcus 

Alpha Psi Omega 

Sam Altman 


Michele W. Andelson & 

Arlen Andelson Esq. 

Jennifer Ander 

Esperanza R. Andrade 

Madeleine Andress 

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 

Laura S. Armitage 

Robert W. Armstrong 

Richard M. Aronstein 

Jerry Arrow 

Salah Bachir 

Melissa Bakalis-Milbank 

D. J. Baker 

Alta S. Baker 

Benjamin L. Balkind 

Dolores V. Ballintyn 

Jean Banks 

Matthew Barbara 

Peter Bardach 

Julia Barr 

Brett Barrett 

Lisbeth R. Barron 

Harlan Batrus 

Kimberly A. Baumgartner 

Bay Street Theatre Festival, Inc. 

J. M. Bayless 

Edith Beatty 

Beautiful Tulip Inc. 

Carol Becker 

Bonnie L. Becker 

William J. Behan 

Valerie Belcher 

Andrew Benedict 

Renee Berger 

Carol Berman 

Jed W. Bernstein 

Michael J. Berry 

Alex Binstock 

Laurie Black 

Michele B. Bloch 

Joyce F. Bluestone 

Karen C. Bockenkamp 

Donna M. Boekley 

Anne N. Bonner 

Rex Bonomelli 

Ann Boon 

Melissa Boxer 

Janice E. Boyd 

Patrick A. Bradford 

Brian Hilton Bradley 

Brandon Associates 

Jodi F. Brandt 

Broadway Inspirational Voices, LLC 

Alan Brockman 

Aron Bromberg/Abe Raskin 

Partners Fund 

J. Arthur Brost 

Mary T. Browne 

Andrew C. Brummer 

M. T. Brust 

Christine K. Buchanan 

J. P. Buckeridge 

Errol Buntuyan 

Cheryl A. Burdumy 

David Burris 

James E. Burrows 

Bonna S. Burtt-Greenberg 

Derrick Bushman 

Michelle L. Butler 

Glen M. Butrick 

Ralph Caccipuoti 

Cahill, Gordon, & Reindell, LLP 

Luigi Caiola 

major donors 

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Patricia H. Callahan 

Camp Broadway, LLC 

David Cantor 

Albert Cantu 

Todd Caplan 

Jeferey E. Cappo 

Christopher V. Cara 

Linda R. Carlozzi 

Bertram F. Carr 

Joseph Carretta 

Wes Carroll 

Amy Casale 

Greg Casciato 

Holli Cash 

Doug & Rhonda Cassity 

Nellie Castan 

Joanna Cayot 

Matthew Celebuski 

Lewis F. Center 

Central Park Dance Studio 

Debora P. Champa 

Charles & Mildred Schnurmacher 


Glen Charlow 

Rosanna L. Chenette 

Robert W. Chernick 

Edward A. Chernoff 

Chicago Title Insurance Company 

Nini Chow 

Karen Christofferson 

Cirque du Soleil (US), Inc. 

Jerome S. Clark 

Kevin Clash 

Clear Channel Management 

Services, LP-Radio 

William Alan Coats 

Toni Cobb 

Gladys G. Cofrin 

Larry Cohen 

College of Santa Fe 

Topher Collier 

Mary Beth B. Collins 

Erin Collins 

Lynn J. Colyer 

Connecticut College Student 

Organizations Fund Office 

Glenn Connolly 

Tony L. Conway 

Linda G. Cooper 

Tracy Corn 

Howard B. Cowan 

Michael Cowing 

Kevin Coyle 

Michael Crahan 

Jeremy Cramer 

Palma Crooks 

Cross Company/ 

Hanover Show Biz Kids 

Mel Crystal 

Yolanda Culler 

Cumberland College 

Frederick P. Cummings 

Brandon M. Currie 

CW Plaza, LLC 

Stephen T. Dacek 

Stephen Dahlem 

Deborah Dakin 

John T. Daley 

Dalton School Parent Teacher 

Association 

Dance Attitudes 

Dance Dynamix – MCPA 

Maria D’Angelo 

Daniel Rosenblum Family 

Foundation 

The Edgar Foster Daniels 

Foundation 

Peter DaPuzzo 

Peggy W. Dassatti 

Robert Davenport 

David S. Steiner and Sylvia Steiner 

Charitable Trust 

Keith C. David 

Kathleen David 

Michael Davidson 

Linda De Cerbo 

Kathleen L. Deadrick 

Carmel Dean 

Kevin Dehler 

Joseph Deitch 

Sandra E. Delbridge 

Jeff DeSalvo 

Allison DeTemple 

Jacqueline E. Dibella 

Victor DiMonda 

Charles P. Dinino 

Benjamin Doller 

Karen W. Dopher 

Roy and Shirley Durst 

Charitable Fund 

Thomas J. Dwyer 

Holly Dyer 

Edward Sulzberger Foundation, Inc. 

Elliott F. Einhorn 

Eisner, LLP 

Shawn Elliott 

Sam Ellis 

in memory of Valerie Silver Ellis 

Abraham Encarnacion 

Cheryl L. Endelson 

Norman Engelke 

Christina Enriquez-Bolobo 

A. J. Epstein 

Lawrence H. Estrin 

David B. Farer 

Kathleen S. Faries 

Jerald Farley 

Jennifer M. Farrell 

Philip Feiner 

Mr. Bennett F. Feintuch 

Kirsten Felix 

Jan Felshin 

Robert Fenstersheib 

Anthony J. Ferrante 

Ken Field 

David Fields 

Arthur L. Finn 

Fire Island Pines Art Project 

Elizabeth S. Fishback 

Tammy Fisher 

Stuart R. Fishman 

Maggie Flanigan and Richard Dow 

Randy Florence 

Food Outreach, Inc. 

Christine E. Ford 

Linda Forrey 

Joann Forte 

Elizabeth A. Fox 

Mark A. Fox 

Richard Frankel 

Warren M. Fraser 

Jane L. Frenkel 

Paula Friedman 

Tony Frieze 

Laura Froelich 

Howard Froman and Scott Briggs 

Delwin D. Fullen 

Arthur P. Gaffin 

Simone L. Galletta 

Don M. Gandy 

Martin A. Geiger 

Bruce Geismar 

Paul Gemignani 

Chris Genry 

April D. Gentile 

Edward J. Gernon 

Leslie Getto 

Edward C. Getty 

B. L. Giddings 

D. C. Gila 

Fred Gilbert 

Gindi Theatrical Management, 

Inc. 

Laurie Girsky 

Cecile Glass 

Dale A. Glasser 

Thom Goff 

Joseph F. Goldberg 

Angela Goldberg 

Seymour L. Goldblatt 

Sylvia & Wayne Golden 

Katja Goldman 

Rona Goldstein 

Tony Golmon 

Nichole Gonsalves 

Kathryn Goodman 

David Gorenstein 

John R. Gossard 

Robert Gottesman 

Fran Grabow 

Marcy Granata 

Sheryl S. Grant 

Heather L. Gray 

Michael Graziano 

Robert L. Green 

Greenberg Traurig, LLP 

Patricia Greenstein 

Mr. Dean R. Greer 

Michael G. Gregory 

Norman Greif 

Mark Grigalunas 

Lissa C. Grubbs 

Elizabeth A. Guez 

Frances I. Haacke 

Susan Haber 

Robin M. Haight 

Helen Hakimian 

Nils Hanson 

Jeffrey E. Hanson 

Elisabeth S. Harding 

Pamela K. Haron 

Diann E. Harrell 

Elizabeth E. Harris 

Susan M. Hart 

major donors 

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Harter Woo Associates, Inc. 

Alan E. Hassell 

Sarah Hassell 

Hal H. Hayes 

Barbara Heil 

Elizabeth Held 

Jill K. Heller 

Cheryl Hendershot 

Henderson-Hogan Agency, Inc. 

Julianne Hendren 

Jean E. Henry 

Joan Henshall 

Ronald Hermann 

John Heyman 

Alan J. Hilburg 

Cathleen W. Hoadley 

Iva Hochstim 

Jeffrey S. Hoffman 

Mari Hoffman 

Robin Hoffman 

Janice L. Hofstetter 

Mildred Holland 

Patricia Holtzman 

Eugene M. Holtzman 

Robert A. Horne 

Mayo Hosoda 

Mary E. Howard 

Shephard Summers & 

Byron Howard 

Tonya Hughes 

William M. Humfreville 

Steve Hyduke 

James Indorato 

Interep National Radio Sales 

Intimode Canada, Inc. 

Irma & Arthur Miller Family 

Foundation 

Island Properties of the Pines, Inc. 

Jamie A. Jackette 

Keith Jackson 

Benjamin U. Jackson 

Ron Jacobs 

Craig G. Jacobs 

JAM Dance & Fitness Center 

Gary Javitch 

Russell A. Jay 

Nancy F. Johnson 

Brenda L. Johnson 

Joan M. Johnston 

Christine Jones 

Tracey L. Jones 

Aradean F. Jordan 

Jujamcyn Theatres 

Lewis Kaden 

Victoria Kalligeros 

Joseph E. Kaminkow 

Gregg Kaminsky 

Gregory Kammerer 

Mannon Kaplan 

Denise Katzman 

Moises Kaufman 

Ashley Keiter 

William E. Kelly 

Karl H. Kemp 

Robert Kempler 

Susie L. Kennedy 

Judy L. Kent 

James D. Kern 

Steven Kerper 

D’Shawn Kerrins 

Karen K. Kessler 

Susan D. Kiely 

Robert Kilgore and 


in loving memory of Dee Kilgore 

Manny Kladitis 

Marilyn F. Klaus 

Lesley M. Klein 

Caryn B. Klein-Cohen 

Toba S. Knobel 

Peter Knobel 

Susan R. Knox 

Edgar A. Knudson 

Jeffrey A. Kolsrud 

Ronald S. Konecky 

Karl W. Koon 

Koppelman Family Foundation 

Kevin M. Korney 

Kenneth Kowalski 

Stephanie Kozak-Allen 

Carrie Krumtum 

Diane B. Kulbacki 

Karen L. Kuster 

Alexander A. Lach 

Lindsay & John Landes 

Norma Langworthy 

Michael T. Lappen 

Michael J. Lassell 

Arthur Laurents 

Lois K. Lawrence 

Leawood Appraisal 

Joel and Mindy Lefkowitz 

Leftfield Productions 

Alan Leibman 

David LeMieux 

Harriet Leve 

Alan Levey 

William S. Levine 

Hildy Levitt 

Standard Folding Cartons 

Franklin H. Levy 

Mrs. Frances Lewis 

Edward S. Lewis 

Warren Liang 

Martha A. Lichter 

Steven Lichtman 

Marc Lieberson 

Jessica W. Lim 

Lisa Lobiondo 

The Arthur Loeb Foundation 

Chris P. Longobucco 

Douglas Love 

Kim A. Lucchesi 

Larry Luing 

Lukaslandinc 

Anna M. Lupo 

Kevin R. Lyle 

Maureen A. Macfadden 

John J. Mackerey 

Macy’s East, Inc. 

Gary A. Maffei 

Saul H. Magram 

Richard H. Maidman and 

Gail Lowe Maidman 

Scott R. Mallalieu 

Sheldon Mallan 

John-John C. Manlutac 

Judith Mann 

Virginia M. Marantz 

Marc Routh Productions, Inc. 

Paul Marchesiani 

Frederick K. Marek 

Tony A. Martin 

Gwendolyn K. Marx 

Melanie L. Marzano 

Paul E. Mast 

Rani N. Mathura 

Helen Mattin 

Harold B. Matzner 

Michael Mayer 

Susan McCart 

Kathryn McCoy 

Robert McDowall 

Laurie McFarlin 

Bob McGarity 

Wallace N. Mcleod 

Carolyn C. Meehan 

Bill Melamed, Jr. 

Daniel Meloy 

Neil Messinger 

Michael Meyers 

David & Mariana Meyerson 

Steven L. Miller 

Hy Miller 

C. P. Mirarchi 

Ivy Mitchell 

Adrianne Mittentag 

Teresa Reyes and Martin Monas 

Monterey Fund, Inc. 

Ann K. Monton 

Kenneth Moore 

Sharon Y. Moore 

Jenny Morales 

Sally C. Morse 

Steven E. Motto 

Vanette L. Mrachek 

Michael W. Mulheren 

Daniel A. Murray 

Patrick Murray 

Cindy H. Muth 

Nobuko C. Narita 

National Association of 

Home Builders 

Agnes G. Neider 

Mary E. Neill 

Bebe Neuwirth 

New Horizons Tour and Travel, Inc. 

New York State Theatre Education 

Association 

NewDance, Inc. 

Kristin Nieuwenhuis 

Daniel J. Nilsen 

Robert Nolan 

in memory of Kevin Patterson 

Jack O’Brien 

Nancy O’Connor 

Michael F. O’Donnell 

Stanley Olan 

Darcy L. O’Loughlin 

Sheila M. O’Neil 

Kenneth Ortega 

Larry D. Ottaway 

Kile Ozier 

Martin Pakledinaz 

major donors 

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Joseph Palazzolo 

Donna Palumbo 

Patricia E. Palumbo 

Robert Pangia 

Alex A. Pappas 

Kathryn M. Parsons 

Joanne Pascoe 

Ellen Paternoster 

Nancy H. Paulson 

Brian Pawlowski 

Rachel N. Payne 

Brook S. Payner 

William Pencer 

Fred M. Penn 

Allison M. Percy 

Perlman Family Foundation, Inc. 

Larry Phillips 

Barbara M. Phillips 

Anthony M. Picciano 

Thomas J. Podiak 

Cori M. Poff 

Jerald S. Politzer 

Pamela S. Pollack 

Harvey Polly 

Frannie Pope 

Wayde Porrevecchio 

Linda Potash 

Patricia Preis 

Elyse Pressner 

Virginia L. Price 

Margaret Primiano 

Robert Protheroe 

Risa Y. Pulver 

R. Family Vacations 

Kristin M. Ramey 

Stephen E. Raphael 

Phylicia Rashad 

Taffin W. Ray 

Thomas B. Ray 

Craig Re 

Nicholas C. Reale 

David Reale 

Long Beach Longriders 


Roger J. Rees 

Michael A. Reid 

Eric M. Reinitz 

Earl Reiss 

Paula Resnick 

Laura Reynolds 

Alison J. Rhodes 

John F. Richardson 

Elan Rieser 

Jo A. Rinallo 

Stacy J. Ritter 

Drs. Carlos and Jayne Rivera 

Peter Robinsohn 

Katherine L. Robinson 

Janice Rogak 

Juanito A. Rohan 

Yolanda Ronda 

Michele Rosen 

Maury L. Rosenberg 

David Rosenberg 

Maxine B. Rosenthal 

James Rosenthal 

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Rosenthal 

Richard Rosenthal 

Michael Rosenzweig 

Thomas A. Rosin 

Lynn Rotando 

Fred M. Rotondaro 

Neal Ruchman 

Robert W. Rudderow 

John Rudey 

Katherine L. Rudin 

Samuel D. Rudy 

Beverly J. Russell 

Kimberly P. Russell 

Linda Safir 

Erven R. Samsel 

Mary Savage 

Rudy Saviano 

Melanie Schaffran 

Jolie Schaffzin 

Micki Schildkraut 

Rocky Schmidt 

Steven Schmidt 

Robert Schmier 

Robert P. Schneider 

Ivan Schneider 

Kevin D. Schon 

Maury D. Schott 

Nancy Schradoff 

Ira Schreck 

Betty J. Schultz 

Sophfronia Scott 

Ivy Scricco 

Susan J. Sehring 

Lori Seid 

Peggy J. Sella 

Paul E. Shapiro 

Angela Shaw 

John C. Shaw 

Kathleen E. Sheehan 

Jonathan A. Shevelew 

Arthur Shorin 

Gretchen Shugart 

Richard S. Shulman 

Sidney R. Rosenau Foundation 

Christopher L. Sieber 

Laurie Simowitz 

Bryan J. Singer 

Joseph F. Sinisi 

Sirius Satellite Radio 

Robin Skye 

Henry F. Smeal 

Scott R. Smith 

Wayne Smith 

Yeardley Smith 

Sarah T. Smith 

Robert J. Smolin 

Rebecca L. Snead 

Brian S. Snyder 

Suzanne Snyder 

Society of Stage Directors and 

Choreographers 

Sandra Soeda 

Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. 

Louise Soowal 

Robert H. Sorbanelli 

Rosemarie Stack 

Eugene A. Stallings 

Kenneth I. Starr 

Marianne T. Stegeland 

Charles Steinberg 

Michael F. Steward 

Seymour Stewart 

Victor E. Stewart 

Geraldine Stutz 

Charles H. Svensson 

Steven Sweet 

Caryn M. Szpigiel 

Michael Taragan 

James Tarleton 

Sherry Taylor 

Margaret Taylor 

Jane Taylor 

in honor of Betty Buckley 

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck 

Susan Tenney 

David Terveen 

Rosemary Testa-Mack 

The Capital Group Companies 

Charitable Foundation 

in honor of Steve Rubin 

The Dance Zone 

The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc. 

The Inquirer and Mirror, Inc. 

The Jill Handelsman Foundation 

The Joelson Foundation 

The Joyce and Seward Johnson 


The L and R Donner Foundation 

The Lapin Foundation, Inc. 

The New York London Project 

The Perry & Martin Granoff 

Family Foundation, Inc. 

The Segal Company (Eastern 

States), Inc. 

Theatre Direct, Inc. 

Judith M. Thiel 

Thomas Travel 

Jo-Anne S. Thomas 

Joseph M. Thomas 

James E. Thomas 

Charles Thorne 

Teresa M. Throenle 

The Andrew Tobias Fund 

of Stonewall Community 

Foundation 

Joseph P. Torre 

Doriann Traina 

Trec Corporation 

Daniel E. Trimbach 

Joseph F. Tringali 

A. S. Truesdale 

Dana D. Tyler 

United Way Metro Chicago 

Unity Church of New York 

Uptown Dance Academy 

Neal F. Vallins 

Reginald Van Lee 

Dennis P. Vaux 

Visiting Nurse Service of 

New York 

Margarita Volftsun 

Peter H. Von Mayrhauser 

Joshua Walden 

Suzyn Waldman 

in memory of Michael Hartig 

Honey Waldman 

Jamie Walker 

Michel Wallerstein 

events 

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Wallin, Simon and Black 

Anita Walts 

Kendall D. Ward 

Terry K. Watanabe 

Melinda M. Waters 

Samuel A. Waterston 

Phyllis Wayne 

Larry Weinberg 

Sheila A. Weinberg 

Scott A. Weiner 

H. S. Weingarten 

Cynthia Weinman 

Louis E. Weiss 

Barbara M. Weltsek 

John Wendell 

Mr. William Wenger 

Bryce West 

White & Case, LLP 

Brenda D. Whitney 

Kathie L. Willett 

William D. Rollnick Nancy Ellison 

Rollnick Foundation 

Ellen D. Williams 

P. E. Williams-Hawkes 

Peter S. Wilson 

Sally F. Windsor 

Anita K. Wolkowitz 

Honey Wolosoff 

Nabeel Youakim 

Lois Yuen 

Richard E. Zacharoff 

Frank Zeccola 

Anthony Zelig 

Alan J. Zimmermann 

Anonymous 


Anonymous 

DRA 

DONORS 

DRA would like to thank the following major corporate and individual donors who gave $1,000 or more to support our programs: 

H. Thomas Axt & Alan E. Hassell 

Alan Brockman 

David Cantor & Peter Schamel 

Capezio 

Cirque du Soleil (US), Inc. 

Beau Clarke 

Dance Master of America 

Danskin 

Neil & Vera Esposito 

Jan Felshin & Edrie Ferdun 

Fire Island Pines Art Project 

Brandon Fradd 

Don M. Gandy 

Mark Grigalunas 

Laura & J.M. Hartstein 

William Hayden & Ron Perkov 

The J.P. Morgan Chase 

Foundation Matching 

Gift Program 

Karl H. Kemp 

Bruce & Billy Kolber-Stuart 

Alexander A. Lach 

Albert R. Lepage 

Edward S. Lewis & Glen J. Wielgus 

Chris P. Longobucco 

Saul H. Magram 

P.J. McAteer 

Bob McGarity 

Michael Meyers & Chad LaBenz 

New York City Dance Alliance 

Kile Ozier 

Eric M. Reinitz & Marc Blackwell 

Sidney R. Rosenau Foundation 

Kate Rudin & Nancy DeLieto 

The Sayville Inn 

Maury D. Schott 

Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher 

Foundations, Inc. 

Charles & Mildred Schnurmacher 

Foundations, Inc. 

Sirius Satellite Radio 

SPI Marketing, LLC 

Frank Stark 

Stonewall Community Foundation 

Tremaine Dance Conventions 

Andrew Tobias & Charles Nolan 

Bruce Tracy & Mickey Rolfe 

Jon Wilner/Island Properties 

The following dance companies and venues have contributed $500 or more to the efforts of DRA through audience appeals following 

performances. We thank each of them for their generous support! 

Alvin Ailey American Dance 

Theater 

Aaron Davis Hall 

American Ballet Theatre 

American Dance Festival 

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance 

Company 

Brooklyn Academy of Music 

BodyVox 

Buglisi/Foreman Dance 

City Center 

Clarke Studio Theatre 

The Cunningham Studio 

Dance Theater Workshop 

Dancelab Theater - Purchase 

Danspace Project 

David Parker and the Bang Group 

Doug Varone and Dancers 

The Duke on 42nd Street 

Elisa Monte Dance 

Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY 

Horses Mouth 

International Dance Festival 

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 

Johannes Wieland 

John Jay Theatre 

Joyce SoHo 

The Joyce Theater 

The Kitchen 

Limón Dance Company 

Mark Morris Dance Group 

Martha Graham Dance Company 

Merce Cunningham Dance 

Company 

MOMIX 

Nikolais Dance Theatre 

Pascal Rioult 

Peter Boal 

Philadanco 

Pilobolus 

P.S. 122 

Puffin Room Gallery 

Ron Brown/Evidence 

Skirball Center 

Smuin Ballets/SF 

Stephen Petronio Company 

Symphony Space 

Tere O’Connor 

Tribeca Arts Canter 

Zvi Gotheiner 

events 

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THE 

COLLEEN DEWHURST 

SOCIETY 

“I’M SO PROUD OF WHAT WE DO FOR EACH OTHER. THERE ARE 

SO MANY PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THIS THING WOULD NEVER GO, 

THAT IT COULDN’T BE DONE. BUT IT HAPPENED ANYWAY BECAUSE 

SO MANY PEOPLE CAME FORWARD AND, IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, 

MADE IT HAPPEN. AND TO THIS VERY DAY, I LOVE YOU ALL FOR THAT.” 

COLLEEN DEWHURST 

JUNE 1991 

PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE AND OURS 

Gifts made by bequest are a growing source of income for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Founded in 1988 and named for 

Colleen Dewhurst, the late Actors’ Equity Association President who spearheaded the formation of the Equity Fights AIDS 

Committee (which merged with Broadway Cares in 1992), The Colleen Dewhurst Society is the planned giving program of BC/EFA 

that honors those individuals who have generously included BC/EFA in their will and estate plans. 

the following people have provided for an estate or other planned gifts to BC/EFA: 

Samuel G. Altman 

Melvin Bernhardt and 

Jeff Woodman 

Katherine Brader 

Oscar Chamudes 

Elizabeth B. Cole 

Frank P. Conway 

Dennis J. Cooney 

Erick Devine 

Kirsten Felix 

Cecelia H. Fink 

Aaron Frankel 

F. Kenneth Freedman 

Ken Glass 

Robert Dean Gonzales 

Christopher C. Harrison 

Michael F. Hartig 

Melody R. Henshaw 

George K. Jones 

Henry Kaplan 

Constance Keene 

Robert W. Kilgore and 


Ronald Kollen 

Belinda J. Kotin 

Dorothy Loudon 

Michael T. Marino 

Gilbert Parker 

Sheila Porter 

Julie Ann Richardson 

Amy Rosenthal 

Paul L. Ross 

Stuart H. Ross 

Margaret L. Small 

Frank E. Spring 

Cheryl Lee Toth 

Jay Laudato and 

Thomas G. Watson 

Terrence James Witter 

Carolyn Zaput 

gifts to bc/efa have been received from the following estates: 

Estate of Louise Alexander 

Estate of Walter Alford 

Estate of Eva Sully Block 

Estate of Robert L. Borod 

Estate of Thomas Boyd 

Estate of Aron Bromberg 

Estate of Alice C. Brown 

Estate of Dennis J. Cooney 

Estate of Dolores Gray 

Crevolin 

Estate of Alvin C. Davis 

Estate of Fred Ebb 

Estate of Joan Houseman 

Estate of Mary L. Laslo 

Estate of Richard Lerner 

Estate of Paul R. Lipson 

Estate of Murray H. Schapiro 

Estate of Eileen R. Shields 

Estate of 

Milton Joseph Tatelman 

Estate of David P. Taylor 

Estate of John Wylie Thomas 

Estate of Gwen Verdon 

Estate of Julius Wittman 

the colleen dewhurst society 

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FINANCIAL 

STATEMENTS 

SEPTEMBER 30, 2004 AND 2003 

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT 

Board of Directors 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc. 

New York, New York 

Eisner LLP 

Accountants and Advisors 

750 Third Avenue 

New York, NY 10017-2703 

Tel 212.949.8700 Fax 212.891.4100 

www.eisnerllp.com 

We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc. as of September 

30, 2004 and 2003, and the related statements of activities, functional expenses, and cash flows for the years then ended. These 

financial statements are the responsibility of the Organization's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these 

financial statements based on our audits. 

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those 

standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free 

of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the 

financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by 

management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable 

basis for our opinion. 

In our opinion, the financial statements enumerated above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc. as of September 30, 2004 and 2003, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows 

for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. 

New York, New York 

January 14, 2005 

financial statements 

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BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS, INC. 

STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION 

year ended september 30, 

2004 2003 

ASSETS 

cash and cash equivalents $ 1,465,940 $ 1,696,817 

accounts receivable 22,150 47,149 

prepaid expenses and other current assets 141,673 77,613 

inventory 253,827 169,143 

property and equipment, net 91,464 86,893 

security deposit 17,656 12,918 

$ 1,992,710 $ 2,090,533 

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 

accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 141,129 $ 196,601 

deferred revenue 25,000 40,465 

grants payable 705,000 1,294,200 

total liabilities $ 1,531,266 

commitments (note d) 

net assets - unrestricted $ 1,121,581 $ 559,267 

$ 1,992,710 $ 2,090,533 

See notes to financial statements. 


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STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES 

YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 


public support and revenue: 

contributions $ 11,256,252 $ 9,066,859 

special events, net of direct benefit to donors of $390,492 in 2003 

and $318,605 in 2002 1,436,856 954,063 

merchandise sales 565,341 494,336 

donated goods and services 368,450 265,000 

interest and other income 13,975 11,571 

total public support and revenue $ 13,640,874 $ 10,791,829 

expenses: 

program services: 

grants 7,797,838 6,138,469 

other program services 1,881,095 1,753,575 

total program services $ 9,678,933 $ 7,892,044 

ssupporting services: 

management and general 1,298,713 1,257,695 

fund-raising 2,100,914 1,591,854 

total supporting services $ 3,399,627 $ 2,849,549 

total expenses $ 13,078,560 $ 10,741,593 

INCREASE IN NET ASSETS 562,314 50,236 

unrestricted net assets - october 1 559,267 509,031 

UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS - SEPTEMBER 30 $ 1,121,581 $ 559,267 



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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS 



CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: 

increase in net assets $ 562,314 $ 50,236 

adjustments to reconcile increase in net assets to net cash provided by 

operating activities: 

depreciation and amortization 41,147 40,294 

donated investments (33,281) (5,378) 

changes in: 

receivables 24,999 (15,298) 

prepaid expenses and other current assets (64,060) 24,476 

inventory (84,684) (27,216) 

security deposits (4,738) (1,200) 

accounts payable and accrued expenses (55,472) 97,702 

deferred revenue (15,465) (14,725) 

grants payable (589,200) 719,200 

net cash provided by operating activities (218,440) 868,091 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES: 

proceeds from sale of investment 33,281 5,378 

purchases of property and equipment (45,718) (45,226) 

net cash used in investing activities (12,437) (39,848) 

net change in cash and cash equivalents (230,877) 828,243 

cash and cash equivalents - october 1 1,696,817 868,574 

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS - SEPTEMBER 1 $ 1,465,940 $ 1,696,817 

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION 

noncash donation of goods and services $ 270,000 $ 265,000 



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NOTES TO 

FINANCIAL 

STATEMENTS 


NOTE A - ORGANIZATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

[1] ORGANIZATION: 

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc. (the "Organization") is a not-for-profit entity that raises money to provide grants to 

organizations providing assistance for health care to individuals in the entertainment industry (particularly HIV/AIDS and 

related womens' health issues) and to organizations and programs nationwide and internationally that provide care and 

services to people living with HIV/AIDS. Occasionally, the Organization also facilitates the fund-raising capabilities of the 

entertainment industry to address an urgent crisis or need, as directed by the Board of Directors. 

The Organization is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and from 

state and local taxes under comparable laws. 

[2] FINANCIAL REPORTING: 

(a) Basis of accounting: 

The accompanying financial statements of the Organization have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting and 

conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America as applicable to not-for-profit 

entities. 

(b) Cash equivalents: 

For financial-presentation purposes, cash and cash equivalents include cash invested in highly liquid money-market 

accounts. 

(c) 

Functional allocation of expenses: 

The cost of providing the various programs and supporting services has been summarized on a functional basis in the 

accompanying statements of activities. Accordingly, certain costs have been allocated among the programs and supporting 

services in reasonable ratios determined by management. 

(d) Use of estimates: 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires 

management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenues and 

expenses. Actual results could differ from those estimates. 

(e) Net assets: 

Unrestricted net assets represent those resources for which there are no donor restrictions as to their use. Temporarily 

restricted contributions, the requirements of which are met in the year of donation, are reported as unrestricted. 

[3] REVENUE RECOGNITION: 

Contributions: 

Contributions are recorded as revenue upon receipt of cash or unconditional pledges. Contributions are considered 

available for unrestricted use unless specifically restricted by the donor. It is the Organization’s policy to sell donated 

investments upon receipt. 


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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 


NOTE A - ORGANIZATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

(CONTINUED) 

Volunteers: 

A substantial number of unpaid volunteers have made significant contributions of their time to the Organization. The 

value of this contributed time does not meet the criteria for recognition of contributed services required under generally 

accepted accounting principles and accordingly, is not included in the accompanying financial statements. 

Special events: 

The Organization conducts special events for which the use of the theater may be donated and the performers and support 

staff donate their time. A portion of the gross proceeds paid by the attendees represents payment for the direct cost of the 

benefits received by the attendees at the event. Unless a verifiable, objective means exists to demonstrate otherwise, the fair 

value of entertainment provided at these special events is measured at the cost to the Organization. The special event 

income is reported net of the direct costs of the event that are attributable to the benefit that the donor receives. 

Merchandise sales: 

The Organization operates a retail outreach program that sells AIDS-awareness red-ribbon items; items crafted by 

workshops sheltered for people living with AIDS; and general Broadway-show-related memorabilia. Sales are conducted 

via a printed catalog and on-line through the Organization’s website. 

[4] PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT: 

Property and equipment are reported at their costs at the dates of acquisition or at their fair values at the dates of donation. 

Depreciation of furniture and equipment is provided using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives of five years, 

and leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the term of the underlying lease. 

[5] INVENTORY: 

Inventory consists of merchandise available for sale and is valued at the lower of cost or market value. Certain items have been 

contributed to inventory and have been recorded at their approximate fair values at the dates of contribution. Included in 

inventory are original, one-of-a-kind toy bears, each of which is a designer-costumed, collectible "Broadway Bear" that is to 

be offered at auction during the next fiscal year. 

[6] DEFERRED REVENUE: 

The revenue from advance ticket sales related to a future year's event is deferred and recognized as income in the year in which 

the performance is held. 

[7] GRANTS PAYABLE: 

Grant expenses are considered to be incurred at the time of approval for payment by the Board of Directors. Grants 

outstanding at the end of each fiscal year are expected to be paid in the following fiscal year. 


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NOTE B - PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT 

At each fiscal year-end, property and equipment consisted of the following: 



office furniture and fixtures $ 99,049 $ 115,280 

equipment 105,392 145,825 

leasehold improvements 59,730 61,755 

264,171 322,860 

less accumulated depreciation (172,707) (235,967) 

During fiscal-year 2004, fully depreciated furniture and equipment of $104,407 were written-off. 

$ 91,464 $ 86,893 

NOTE C - COMMITMENTS 

[1] LEASE AGREEMENT: 

The Organization rents office space under an operating lease agreement that expires on June 30, 2008. The lease requires 

minimum lease payments plus escalation charges. Rent expense for each of the fiscal-years 2004 and 2003 was approximately 

$248,000 and $236,000, respectively. The minimum annual future obligations under this lease are as follows: 


2005 212,396 

2006 218,767 

2007 225,328 

2008 172,770 

$ 829,261 

[2] CONSULTING AGREEMENT: 

On October 1, 2004, the Organization entered into a consulting agreement for direct mailing services. The agreement expires on 

September 30, 2006. The minimum fee is expected to be $27,000 for fiscal-year 2005 and $27,000 for fiscal-year 2006. 

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NOTE D - DONATED GOODS AND SERVICES 

Contributed goods are recognized at their fair market values at the dates of donation. Contributions of services are recognized 

when they are received, if the services (a) create or enhance nonfinancial assets or (b) require specialized skills, are provided by 

individuals possessing those skills, and would typically need to be purchased if not donated. 

During fiscal-year 2004, the Organization received $62,850 of donated airfare and $35,600 of donated security. In addition, 

the Organization received (i) donated toy bears of $100,000 and $90,000 in fiscal-years 2004 and 2003, respectively, and (ii) 

an in-kind contribution in the form of donated advertising which was valued at $170,000 and $175,000 in fiscal-years 2004 and 

2003, respectively. 

NOTE E - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION 

A director of the Organization is a principal owner of the press agency used by the Organization. Fees paid for services and 

expense reimbursements to the press agency were $32,741 and $27,538 for fiscal-years 2004 and 2003, respectively. 

For the fiscal-years 2004 and 2003, grants of $3,360,500 and $2,972,500, respectively, were paid to the Actors Fund of 

America, a not-for-profit organization that has several board members in common with the Organization. 

NOTE F - CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIEF EFFORTS 

As a result of the terrorist attacks in 2001, various Broadway shows collected donations for the relief efforts and submitted these 

contributions to the Organization. The Organization in turn distributed these funds, which amounted to approximately 

$215,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, to appropriate recipients. 

NOTE H - RETIREMENT BENEFITS 

The Organization has a defined-contribution pension plan formed under U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) that covers 

all employees who meet certain length-of-service requirements. Participants' contributions are fully vested at all times, and vesting 

of the Organization's contributions is phased-in over a six-year period. There were no employer contributions made in fiscalyears 

2004 and 2003. It is the Organization's policy to fund pension costs currently. 

NOTE I - CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK 

The Organization deposits its cash in accounts with major banking institutions. At times, such amounts may be in excess of federal 

insurance limits. Management believes that the Organization has no significant risk of loss on these accounts due to the failure of 

the institutions. 

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CREDITS 

Prepared by the BC/EFA 

senior staff 

Tom Viola 

Executive Director 

Larry Cook 

Director of Finance and 

Administration 

Michael Graziano 

Producing Director 

Frank Sonntag 

Director of Development 

and 

Andy Smith 

Associate Director of Development 

and Communications 

editor 

Tom Viola 

photo editor 

Carol Ingram 

design 

Design 158, NYC 

photography 

Jay Brady Photography, 

Kenneth Blauvelt/ 

Studio 66 

Rivka Katvan 

Moody Pics 

Christopher Economakos 

The Actors’ Fund of 

America and candid photos 

donated by BC/EFA 

volunteers 

printing 

Arista Printing and 

Computer Graphics 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Paul Libin, President 

Alan Eisenberg, Vice-President 

Patrick Quinn, Second Vice-President 

Maria Di Dia, Third Vice-President 

Philip Birsh, Tresurer 

Judith Rice, Secretary 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

Cornelius Baker Gary Gunas 

Scott Barnes Charles Hamlen 

Joseph Benincasa ex officio 

Jed Bernstein Craig Jacobs 

Chris Boneau Richard Jay- 

Barry Brown Alexander 

Kate Burton Cherry Jones 

Robert Callely Nathan Lane 

Kathleen Chalfant Jay Laudato 

Thom Christopher Scott Mauro 

Sherry Cohen Michael McElroy 

Alan Cumming Terrence McNally 

Gavin Darraugh Jerry Mitchell 

Michael David Ira Mont 

Merle Debuskey Bernadette Peters 

Paul DiDonato Martin Richards 

Sam Ellis 

Chita Rivera 

Neal Garelik Jordan Roth 

Nick Scandalios 

Peter Schneider 

Thomas 

Schumacher 

Marian Seldes 

Matthew Serino 

Philip J. Smith 

Stuart Thompson 

Tim Tompkins 

Fred Vogel 

Beth Williams 

George C. Wolfe 

as of October 1, 2004 

credits 

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42nd STREET 

A FEW GOOD MEN DANCIN’ 

A RAISIN IN THE SUN AIDA AVENUE Q BEAUTY AND 

THE BEAST BECKETT/ALBEE BEYOND RECOGNITION 

BLUE MAN GROUP BOOBS, THE MUSICAL THE BOY 

FROM OZ CABARET CHICAGO DE LA GUARDA 

FAME FIDDLER ON THE ROOF FLOWER DRUM SONG 

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY THE FULL MONTY GOLDA’S 

BALCONY GYPSY HAIRSPRAY I AM MY OWN WIFE 

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE 

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR LES MISÉRABLES THE 

LION KING LISTEN TO MY HEART LITTLE SHOP OF 

HORRORS LYPSINKA MAMMA MIA MENOPAUSE, 

THE MUSICAL MORE MOVIN’ OUT NAKED BOYS 

SINGING NINE OMINUM GATHERING THE PHANTOM 

OF THE OPERA THE PRODUCERS RENT THE 

RETREAT FROM MOSCOW SARAH, SARAH STOMP 

STRICTLY ACADEMIC TABOO TAKE ME OUT THE 

THANK 

YOU! 

THING ABOUT MEN THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE 

TWENTIETH CENTURY URINETOWN THE VIOLET 

HOUR WICKED WINTERTIME WONDERFUL TOWN 

Company members from Avenue Q at the Broadway Flea Market; this says it all – the “rotation” at Broadway Bares; Leslie Gore and Richard Thomas at the Celebrity Photo Booth 

during The Broadway Flea Market; the kids from the musical Gypsy accept their fundraising award at The Gypsy of the Year Competition; two BC/EFA champions, Christopher 

Sieber and Harvey Fierstein; the star of Take Me Out, Daniel Sunjata, with his very own Take Me Out bear – fully clothed. The irrepressible Charles Busch as Auntie Mame.

BROADWAY CARES/ 

EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS 

165 West 46th Street, Suite 1300 

New York, NY 10036 

T.212.840.0770 

F.212.840.0551 

www.broadwaycares.org

BC/EFA Annual Report 2004 - Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

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