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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Dear God… PLEASE don’t let Fluke pull off a rubber mask!!! Hopefully RC will come up with something new (but I doubt it…)
I am with you; how utterly ridiculous-the masks.
Fluke story line needs to go! And, ewww, Ava & Sonny, yuck, yuck, yuck!
I kind of figure they would have to bring a pregnancy into the picture but woukd that stop Sonny from doing the deed after Ava gives birth? I still think that is Luke’s cousin Bill Ekert but I do not remember Bill being so evil when he was on the show.
Another question might be is Ava really pregnant or is this just a way for her to keep Sonny from killing her?For now it buys Ava time because if she is indeed pregnant it keeps her alive and if she isn’t then she could use the time to come up with another plan to keep Sonny from killing her.If Ava is pregnant with Sonny’s child that could be the final nail in Sonny and Morgan’s relationship.As for Luke i think it was a given that the guy walking around the last few months wasn’t the real Luke.Now the question becomes… Read more »
The child could be Morgans?
Andrew, Ron would never do that as that would completely replicate the Claudia storyline.
Oh wait, this is Ron we’re talking about. Nevermind.
I’m RC is not the first head writer to repeat a story another writer did.Plus the Claudia story happened years ago.So if RC wants to do a similar story now i have no problem with it.
GH has gotten its largest May sweeps ratings in 7 years!!!
Big deal, abc wants out of the soap business. Abc is only giving gh 1 year one year contracts at a time. THey are not confident with gh anymore. Its only a matter of time, when gh gets cancelled. Yes the ratings are up, so what, that doesn’t mean anything anymore. Say bye bye gh, and hello to new talk shows and more reality shows. I quit watching gh, last week. Very painful to watch. I watch days and young and the restless.
I don’t care if ABC is just giving GH one year deals because it just means GH will be on the air for at least one more year.Plus maybe one year deals is better than multi-year deals because it means GH knows they can’t get complacent or they could be cancelled.
I didn’t see any power in Maurice Bernard’s performance. All I saw was Bernard stalling so he could remember his lines.
Loved the ‘real Luke’/’fake Luke’ mini-scene, but I will be glad when this story is over. Once again a story has been dragged out so long that it has lost all its power. Now we are going to be thrust into a who’s the daddy story with Ava’s latest reveal. Do I really care whose spawn she is carrying — if she is pregnant at all — ? No, I don’t care.
Maurice Bernard/Sonny is a very powerful actor.. He owns Sunny and always gives a great performance..
I love the 2 stories, they are intriguing and high drama..
I can’t wait to see whats next and how it all turns out..
🙂
I, too am tired of the storyline with Eva. All the lying and deception has gotten boring. She’s sitting around on the island drinking Mai-Tai’s and now she’s supposedly pregnant. But, nice to know they have drugstores on Sonny’s island where folks can buy pregnancy test kits? Yea, right. The Sonny character ran out of steam years ago. Betraying both his sons by killing AJ and then sleeping with Eva has taken him even more out of whatever “integrity” he had.
The only fun part of this mess would be if Carly ends up becoming a grandmother…and to Ava’s brat, no less!!!!
Saw all this comes months ago! Please tell me something I don’t already know! Come on RC surprise me! PLEASE!!!
And hurry up, I’m not getting any younger!
It can’t be sonny’s cuz they JUST slept together, it would be too early it has to be Morgand
Sonny and Ava slept together a few weeks ago.So it is possible she could be pregnant now.However if she is pregnant then i’m sure there’s going to be a paternity test done when she’s further along when there’s less risk.
Not exactly the most shocking plot twist ever. Lol. Watching a greasy murderer threaten a pregnant woman and tell her he wants to watch her bleed out….just what I and so many others want to watch after lunch. Gross!!!!!! Sonny’s code of “honour” comes and goes to suit his needs. He threatened to kill Carly just last year and she is the mother of one of his children. Why do these people love murder so much? Snarly sat there and snarled at Rick for locking her in a panic room…as she sat there all doe eyed and in love with… Read more »
Johnny, you’re so right. Sometimes I become so anticlimated to the insanity of the writing I forget to see how truly insane it really is.
I predicted Avas pregnancy some time ago(maybe its Lulu’s stolen embryo…kidding…lol)…child could still be Morgans(i like Sonny and Ava together…kind of reminds me of Barnabas and Angelique of Dark Shadows…Angelique was responsible for Josettes death…Ava for Connies…Barnabas confronted Angelique when he found out she was a witch…Sonny confronted Ava when he found out she killed Connie…some minor similiarities but it still reminds me of those two DS characters just the same)…maybe fluke is really Bill but still could be Jerry, The Balkan, a Cassidine, or Mr. Marbles who next will go after Epiphany…lol…Lulu still hasnt seen a picture of Lucas’s… Read more »
What happened to Olivias visions…i thought she’d see Morgan in a diaper and sucking on a binky…lol
on Fridays ep: when Morgan kissed Olivia “lets do like they did to us” “take me back to your place” LOL… nice! easy ! I think…. I was actually screaming in my mind… “do not go their, do not sully up anymore this relationship” !!!! ???? Whew ! thank good ness Olivia whetted her libido and stalled her cojones with full bossom were invited I did think…. woah! Nice to see Livia in the scene doing some stuff… that intrigues the audience… not to be saddled with Sonny… after Steve she has potential with Luke, fluke, bill… or whomever he… Read more »
Do not drink the water in Port Charles!! How many baby stories do you need to have.. I have had enough and lets move on to something besides a baby being involved… RC .. get some babies of your own if you are living vicariously through GH storylines.. I usually only praise you , but come on .. enough is enough… is enough.. is enough.. is enough…. ……NO MORE BABY STORIES>>>>
Thing is-
We have no idea if this is even a baby story..
Ava preggers haa not going to happen..
However; saying so is a life-preserver..
RC loves to bait and some people gobble down his bait.. lol
It should be Morgan’s. Sonny has infected the world enough with his spawn, let someone else have a turn to be a better dad than him (although that’s definitely not a very high bar to climb). I loathe Sonny with the fire of a thousand suns, so here’s hoping it’s an Ava/Morgan baby!
Ewwwwww this show has gotten gross
Mark, as long as GH is on and im enjoyng it im going to watch but if it gets cancelled i wont loose any sleep over it!!! (yes, it has its gross moments but i still like other parts of it) I watch Days which is better written but i only watch Y&R on occassion…as for May sweeps it is a big deal even if abc could care less…it shows people will still watch soaps…anyway, ill survive even if my soaps dont!!!
I found it interesting that Anna referred to Barrett Enterprises as “B.E.” which are Bill Eckert’s initials. I think Faux Luke is Luke’s cousin Bill. Especially after that reference. Ava is clearly lying. Just what we need, another spoiled spawn of Sonny’s from yet again, another baby mama. Please, no more Micheal and Kiki “love” scenes. Ugh.
Yes, no more love scenes especially in Tracys old office! Micheal shouldnt be C.E.O of E.LQ.,…he looks like a bag boy at the local Piggly Wiggly, lol
Him and David Thom should start a boy band! “Ladies and Gentleman, “OutofSync!”
Ava Jerome needs to suffer now, I love Maura West she is a wonderful actress, but Ava needs to die now. Bring back Vanessa Marcil. Brenda needs to kick Ava’s ass. Lol
I’m really surprised at the number of fans, a lot of women, here and on Facebook, refer to Ava being pregnant as “gross” because they think she is too old to be with Morgan, too old to be pregnant but not a word about Sonny always being with younger women and knocking them up. Sad when women perpetuate the double standards that put them down.
Excellent point mfarris! I agree. Both men and women can be dogs. Let’s not have a doublever standard when we all know Sonny was tearing it up with Emily.
LOL
Ava is not pregnant
Ava is using being pregnant to save her life..
RC is saying;
ha! and ha ha ! (at the gullible) lol
I think Sonny is a total manwhore who takes no responsibility for birth control (or self-control for that matter.) He makes me sick. But I kinda love to hate him and enjoy his character in small doses. As far as the women in his life? I have no double standard as I think all consenting adults should bear personal responsibility and self-respect. But Crypt-sex? In the Q Crypt? On the final resting place of the man they murdered? It doesn’t get much more disgusting than that. Not to mention, I believe his one-time “love” Emily Q is laid to rest… Read more »
Have zero interest in another Corinthos baby, and if someone doesn’t kill FLUKE asap, I won’t even be recording this show to FF through. I keep expecting him to sprout horns and a tail.
There just aren’t words to express HOW sick I am of Fluke.
Don’t forget that we’ve seen Ava having cocktails and thanking the butler for his bar tending skills. I think the positive pregnancy test was a back up plan that she’s probably kept in her back pocket (literally) for a while. Now for the made scramble to get pregnant for real…
Plus maybe Ava knew eventually Shawn would tell Sonny that she was the one who shot Olivia last year.So Ava may have known that Sonny would try to kill her whether it was because she killed Connie or because she shot Olivia.So pretending to be pregnant was her way out but i’m wondering if the surprise will be on Ava if she turns out to be pregnant for real.
I’m not complaining too much about GH these days. Ava dropping the pregnancy bomb wasn’t surprising but I loved seeing Sonny’s reaction because he thought he had her D-E-A-D! I hope they will tell us who is Fluke by next week, or at least give us more clues!!
Wow! Shocking! NOT! We all saw this coming since crypt-sex.
I like Maura West and her “Ava Jerome” & I hope she sticks around. But please, NO MORE BABY STORYLINES! Enough with the kids already!
For the just concluded May Sweeps ratings period, ABC’s “General Hospital” attracted its largest audience in seven years in Total Viewers (3.068 million) and best performance in three years in Women 18-49 (747,000/1.2 rating) and Women 25-54 (999,000/1.6 rating) – since May Sweeps 2007 and 2011, respectively. The soap ranked as the #1 daytime show in Women 18-49 (tied in rating). Further, “GH” stood as the #1 program in Women 18-34 (252,000/0.7 rating), hitting a 4 year high in the demo – since May Sweeps 2010. The iconic soap posted gains of 8% in Total Viewers (3.068 million vs. 2.851… Read more »
Finally the fluke storyline is moving forward and I’m enjoying GH again, and hooray to Anna for not excepting to help Julian, at first I thought she was being vendictive, but finally Anna was acting like her old self and not being filled by Julian , hopefully she’ll catch on quickly that Rick is being set up. I’m hoping GH is getting back on track and that RC can keep himself or someone can keep him checked. Keeping my fingers cross. One last thing, I could care less if Jason comes back but if he’s being recast I give my… Read more »
Those two skunks–Sonny and Ava–deserve each other.
LOl I agree with you
I don’t think Ava is really pregnant, it’s just a manipulation tactic. If she truly was, then why didn’t she say so at first instead of trying to manipulate Sonny into not killing her?
As for Fluke, the scenes with him and Luke were very creepy and made me despise Fluke even more, which I didn’t think was possible. But it’s starting to make sense now… Barrett Enterprises… B.E. … Bill Eckert?! Anna said it herself: “B.E. that’s interesting.” It could be a famous RC red herring but what if it is actually true?
Yeah Ava could be lying about been pregnant but the joke could be on her if a doctor confirms that she is indeed pregnant.Plus maybe she told Sonny she was pregnant because she knew he would take her back to Port Charles to get confirmation.On the island Sonny could easily kill her and get rid of her body.In Port Charles it might be a little harder for him to kill her.
The spawn from hell. Sonny and Ava’s genes.???Ha ha ha . This show makes sure I am never tempted to turn back in. Omen, Rosemarys baby, the bad seed, etc etc,etc. GMAB.
I think she might be pregnant…with Morgan’s child. Doesn’t correlate with her drinking on the island, unless it was non-alcoholic
The concept of a Jerome/Corinthos baby could be interesting…two families so twisted and at odds with each other…Sonny stifled from killing the woman who killed his love…coupled with his guilt over killing AJ made worse now by knowing that AJ was innocent.
I think there are many explosive possibilities with this storyline should they decide to pursue the baby route. I’s the only way they can keep Maura on the show which they want to do.
I must be losing my edge because I honestly did not see Ava pregnancy coming. I thought RC had written her in a corner and I did not know how they would get her out it– then boom a Corinthos baby— buys her at least nine months, and in nine months Ava can think of thousand ways to avoid Sonny’s wrath.
As for Fluke I don’t know who he is, all I know is after watching him on screen I feel the need for a shower to get his slime off of me.
“… I thought RC had written her in a corner” that’s exactly what I thought theres’s been a lot of angst, emotional upheaval, with Sonny’s part of the GH pie. 1st there was Connie’s death 2nd there was AJ death and now… it caught me : Morgan is going to be a father! I totally am on board… with how Ava and Morgan have caught on… fire it up I like this romance…. I certainly hope it’s Morgans. if Sonny claims to be all that about HIS family… then so be it… Ava has him in a corner and locked… Read more »
You realize that this is the end of Anthony Geary for the summer. Perfect way to write him out for his summer leave. We will all be up in the air until he comes back. Great goodbye for the summer but annoying for the audience.
Last year i think Anthony Geary split up his Summer vacation.In that he came back for few weeks during the Summer for a few weeks but then left again until the Fall.So maybe he’ll do the same thing this year.That way Luke and “Luke” won’t be offscreen for the whole Summer.
Did Ava ever actually admit to Sonny that she shot Connie?
She denied it all the way. Her facial expressions after Sonny told her about the recording gave it away.