Beloved stars from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite for ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a one-night-only streaming concert benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The free streamed event can be viewed on the Broadway Cares website beginning at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday, February 11.
Additionally, the event can be seen on Broadway Cares’ YouTube Channel, ABC-owned television stations’ 32 connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and each of the eight stations’ websites around the country, including abc7ny.com and Good Morning America’s Facebook page..
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The star-studded lineup will include performances by All My Children’s Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Fuenmayor, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood; and General Hospital’s Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary..
For the February 11 streaming special, viewers can expect to hear a bevy of Broadway classics and jazzy standards. The streaming event will be directed by John Dietrich, who also directed each of the live stage performances.
Dedicated fans also will have the opportunity for one-on-one virtual meet-and-greets with their favorite soap stars on Saturday, February 13. Further information on tickets and the lineup of special guests will be announced later this month.
From 2005-2011, the stars of ABC Daytime took the stage at New York City’s Town Hall one night each year for ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares. The evening featured dynamic production numbers, heartfelt ballads and hilarious skits. Now, 10 years after that final performance, the iconic ABC Daytime actors revisit their performances as they help raise money for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the event began in 2005. it was for a one-night benefit concert to celebrate All My Children’s 35th Anniversary. With overwhelming support from fans, the event continued for six more years and included cast members from One Life to Live, General Hospital and co-hosts of The View. Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised an incredible $1.85 million.
“This event is truly one of a kind,” Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said. “We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.”
“It was such an incredible privilege and joy to join my fellow co-stars to perform in the seven ABC Daytime Salutes concerts to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS,” said former All My Children star Susan Lucci. “There are no fans like ABC Daytime fans. Their love and support continue to astonish us. We can’t wait to share these special performances with them and help raise money for so many in need during this difficult time.”
Lucci also shared her excitement on her Instagram account expressing: “We’re getting the fans and cast back together!!! Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 8pm for “ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway”—a fabulous online event revisiting seven years of singing, dancing and plot twists, featuring your favorite ABC Daytime stars. And it’s all to help Broadway Cares support our friends and neighbors who are struggling during this pandemic. Watch the stream at
broadway-cares.org, to join the fun! I hope to see you there!”
So excited to hear about the ABC Daytime Back to Broadway event? Let us know in the comment section, and check out the announcement from The View’s Whoopi Goldberg below.
BREAKING! Queen of @theview @WhoopiGoldberg announces ABC Daytime: Back on #Broadway will stream on February 11. Theatre and Soap fans alike are sure to swoon over performances of Broadway hits and parodies by @Susan_Lucci and stars from AMC, OLTL, and GH. https://t.co/Nxa3X2oJcx
— Broadway Cares (@BCEFA) January 14, 2021
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I am just loving this and as I have an investigative side I thought I had it figured out but you fooled me
You gotta love David with JR. I was surprised that David shot JR on purpose.
Thought it was a good episode. David at JR ‘s bedside was fitting for his character…..telling how much he wanted him to suffer for killing Miranda…probably should have thrown in a comment about JR’s treatment of Babe too. I agree with you David seeing Jr laying on the ground and choosing to shoot him is out of character for David. David might choose revenge, but it would be more diabolical and well thought through. I am a tremendous David Hayward fan…truly think he is one of the best characters in the history of daytime. Also think that Vincent irizarry is… Read more »
JR Chandler being the person in the coma is the worst kept secret ever! He’s appeared in the opening credits since day one of the show premiering on Hulu.
We knew JR would be on the show, but how could we know he was in the coma? The way they were going on about Tad, I thought Tad was in the coma at first.
So where IS Tad? If Michael E. Knight “can’t come back right now” (I predict, he’ll be back, unless Hollywood is beating down his door for a major Movie role) – but I just wonder where the character of Tad Martin is supposed to be.
I’m enjoying it and happy to see David return. I do find the bad language unnecessary, especially the use of the F bomb yesterday. It casts a shadow on AMCs history.
The fbomb gives it a trashy feel…i dont know why people like it…im 29 and never used it myself…my children could watch it with me but not anymore…its gotten ‘too adult’ and i dont want to rush them to be adults too fast…that will come soon enough!
The language is realistic and it’s not gratuitous. Don’t be such a prude.
I value other peoples opinions too, but no need to tell what how or how not to be. Just express your opinion in addition to mine. It’s a big world. There’s room for all our opinions.
Mike I agree with you – in an extremely heated argument, I can understand language getting a little foul – but obligatory bad language just because “now
we can” is not necessary.
This is what I don’t understand. Kim, you said your children would watch this with you in the past but NOW because of the language you won’t let them?! These have ALWAYS been adult programs – clearly, by your age, your kids are not even teenagers so I’m not sure why they would be watching these programs to begin with as they are NOT appropriate for children. Honestly, people. You should just be happy that these shows came back on and stop your complaining!
I didn’t even notice it.
I hate that word and I didn’t notice being said either. I think you have to really be looking for problems to have noticed it in my opinion.
Funny. I’m not crazy about adding the cursing as it lessens the feel of it being my old show, yet I didn’t even notice the f bomb!
i didn’t notice it either
I believe Cara had the baby and gave it up for adoption ..
AMC is absolutely riveting!
Wish the epis were 2 hrs not 30 min and a full 5 days a week..
Who knew AMC and OLTL could be this outrageously good!!!
Now I want GH to go on the internet, image the uncensored stories GH could thrill me with!
I think Cara had that baby aborted.
I agree, adoption.
I think she’s hiding the child somewhere.
i agree with Becky….
she had the baby and someone is taking care of it… for her.
you couldn’t help but not believe…. on the original… that they truly were in love.
i think it’ll take a while for the reveal…
Cara….. – assuming they may read these: you need to put on some weight.
Bravo! Watching the fourth episode made me fall in love with AMC all over again. Great story, great performamces (the actors playing Miranda and AJ are refreshingly good), and interesting plot twists. They got it right with AMC 2.0 and I couldn’t be happier.
AMC is really good! I stopped watching because it just got too much for me, just watching OLTL. But I’m liking what I’m seeing so far.. but the show needs to get it’s core characters back: Erica, Kendall, Ryan, Greenlee, Tad.. those 5 have carried the stories for the past decade, Erica longer of course. The show has shifted it’s balance to those characters, so it feels like something is missing without them. I’m still watching AMC tho, gotta support it til those actors come to their senses and join up.
I know both Susan and Michael have said scheduling is the main reason they aren’t back yet.
I am actually liking the new blood, fresh storylines . . . and surprisingly I don’t miss Erica, Ryan, or Greenlee at all — I found their storylines and characters repetitive and boring in the past. I *do* look forward to Tad returning [fingers crossed].
I had no intentions of watching the weekly wrap up on Fridays, but I forgot that it was Friday and started to watch. There’s a lot more to it than a weekly wrap up, and I was hooked. Love it! Everyone should check it out.
I did the same and I really enjoyed it, Everyone should check it out. Hope AMC and OLTL stay on another 40 some years.
I was wondering about that – now I can’t wait to watch it when I get home! Thanks.
I thought it was great as well. love the interviews and behind the scenes
I think there’s MORE to that night! There were two shots fired, I think some one else was shot too!
I agree. I think there’s much more to learn about that night.
One shot was JR shooting Marissa and the second was David shooting JR.
No, when J.R and David were fighting over the gun, two shots went off, then David shot him.
They are doing very well with the first four epi’s!
I think maybe Cara had the baby and gave it up for adoption – or, it’s remotely possible that she had the baby aborted due to her own medical history of poor health – I do not think she had a “miscarriage” and I don’t feel that Viewers are supposed to buy that story either.
Since J.R. is the one in a five year coma – (no wonder he looks different, and here I thought it was because another actor is portraying him) then the question is….where the heck is Tad? Why is Dixie always crying over his picture?
My favorite part of the new show is….that we are all wondering what is happening next and discussing story lines! Whether we like or dislike what is going on, we are all happy to be back in Pine Valley and Llanview! 🙂
I’d kind of given up on AMC and OLTL in the last year. It seemed to me that they’d never come back and if they did they wouldn’t be much and went on to Y&R but now I’m hooked again. We don’t get much going on in that short of a time frame but its enough to keep me tuning back in. I don’t have a problem with the language is bad at all. I personally don’t use that kind of language but its quite fitting with the action. It always seemed off to me before when a supposed drug… Read more »
I’m thinking she gave it up for adoption… or someone is raising the child for her. Does she have any family besides Grif?
Love the new AMC!
YES I THINK THAT SHE NEEDS TOO GIVE IT UP ,,,FOR ADOPTION THAT KID WANT BE HAPPY WITH A DAD LIKE DAVID…. YOU HAVE SO MANY NEW KIDS ON THE SHOW I JUST DON’T KNOW. BUT NOW I DO LIKE RYAN AND GREENLEE i”m with the others this show is not some thing too watch with your kids found some else for your kids too watch, : )