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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Levi…he has sinister hidden motives for being in PC, i hope!!! Rafe(Silas and Ninas son?) would be my second guess….then a day player…a drunken nun…lol
I wonder what is triggering Rafe to do drugs? because Molly keeps on rejecting him? such a sweet cute kid in my book… they really have never had him doing any thing… any ways… so it may as well be either or Rafe and Levi. both non essential to the canvas… although, I really liked when ALL this started with the three amigos… that at least we were enjoying Silas introduction to uncle/fatherhood/guardianship… with Rafe.. and it’s been by the way side for so long now Levi… LOL… made me laugh some… when it now seems… like Maxie : “eat,… Read more »
Would Jordan,an undercover agent or whatever and Comminsioner Anna really meet in an often crowded park and exchange info on the mob where anyone can see them…dumb writing!!!
But they were sitting on two separate benches, nothing obvious about that. LOL
Thank you, jimh! EXTREMELY dumb writing! Our Anna would NEVER be so careless and foolhardy! Just another prime example of the current regime writing a character TOTALLY counter to their essence….also not at all jazzed with that Jordan person. She comes off as so snotty and arrogant….her reveal as an undercover drug agent was awfully contrived, too….how convenient. It’s like they grasped at anything to try to make her likeable and useful when she really is just totally unnecessary…like most of the newbies we get these days!
Yes, I have thought the same thing. That is very stupid. Sitting on a public bench, back to back, where the world can see and hear? I believe Rafe gave himself away while conversing with Miss Monotone (Sam) that he may have caused the accident. I wish she would speak with a bit of colour, enthusiasm. Her sotto voce manner of speaking is unnerving. I have read earlier posts about much criticism concerning Nina. Please, everyone, give Michelle a chance. She is a great actress, deserving our attention. Do not let her subservient demeanor fool you. I am sure her… Read more »
Thank You! I have been saying this all week.
@Nonna….While I love the character of Sam, I do concur with you on Kelly M.’s delivery skills….she needs less mumbling and more enunciation, plus a bit of animation thrown in for good measure. In another matter regarding Ms. Morgan, could wardrobe please quit attiring her in tank tops that are cut so low that I constantly fear for her having a “wardrobe malfunction?” I literally dubbed the end of last week, “Fallout Friday” because so many of the female cast members were wearing tops so totally immodest that I expected a mass tumbling out of their assets. It’s bad enough… Read more »
It looks like Rafe now…but when and why did he start drugs…i hate stories that are sudden and without explaination…he was gone for months and suddenly returns with a front burner story and he suddenly is a drug addict!!!
What I thought was beyond stupid was Anna talking to Jordan while Jordan’s holding the phone. So…a passerby would think what…that Anna was talking to herself?
LOL. Dumb.
Well, that devishly handsome and charismatic Johnny is behind bars so it can’t be him.
AJ had a really strong alibi this time (that being that he was dead at the time of the accident). Toonces the driving car?
I give up and I give up so readily because frankly, my dear I don’t give a damn.
That would be Toonces the driving CAT, not car.
Toonces? LOL……is he still around running amok?????
I think it was someone Fluke hired to send a message to Spencer.
I not sure so I”LL wait to see,I’m hoping it isn’t Rafe.
Why do they love to have so many miscarriages and kill kids on this show so much. No wonder the girl who plays Sabrina is leaving. He storyline was just unnecessarily depressing.
Rafe is the main suspect since he is going down hill quickly BUT, wouldnt it be a great story if it were Robin who was driving home to see Patrick and Emma and she hit them? This couldnt be revealed for months since Kimberly is off the show but it would be one hell of a way to reintroduce her back and cause turmoil for her and Patrick.
I think it was either Rafe or Fluke
I’m with you on that, Rafe looks soooooooo guilty and I’m getting tired of Fluke’s story line. If he wearing a mask to look like Luke, Tracy would have seen it already [in bed]. Maybe somebody had plastic surgery to look like Luke or it’s his cousin. Tracy should watch out because she is no longer useful to Fluke. Today somebody got “shot”, I think Anna set that up to protect Ric and to flush out Fluke.
When it first happened by first thought was it might have been Lucy. She was very distracted with the nurse’s ball and her affair with Scott weighting on her mind, that perhaps she was texting and driving, or just not focused on the road. If Lucy it would dovetail nicely with her history of losing a baby and with Scott being the DA. He might have to be one to put his lady love in jail for vehicular manslaughter of Baby Gabriel —- But now they have thrown Rafe into the mix– he could have been driving high– or maybe… Read more »
The ages don’t match. Race is established as 16 or 17. We know Nina was in a coma for 20 years or more. However…I think Kiki could be Nina and Silas’ child. Maybe Ava and Madeline made an unholy alliance for Ava to keep the child. Not that I care one way or the other because I don’t care about ANY of these people. When you are basing entire storylines on characters who have been on the show a year or less, your show has a problem.
Didn’t realize Rafe was that young– thought he was older– okay if those are the ages, then you’re right Kiki might be their child— and I get what you’re saying about newbies taking over the screen, although fairly new to GH– less 2 years, I have the same issue with Y&R, been watching for over 30 years and so many people I don’t know or care about on screen all the time — it does make a longtime viewer feel cheated, like their investment in watching a group of core characters has been sweep away by the whim of writers… Read more »
Yes, Johnny. I believe my granddaughter deduced exactly that weeks ago. But, I love your wording much better; “unholy alliance”? I really like that expression.
I’m hoping it’s not Rafe. That would actually turn my stomach. His father was a psycho killer who thought he was a vampire, his mother was murdered (by his father, right?), he made some bad decisions re: Molly, and now he’s stealing to support a drug habit. Making him a baby killer is just too much for me.
If Rafe wants any chance of survival under this regime, he must be made a killer. Don’t you know? Killers are the heroes on this show. We must root for murderers for some reason. And yes, it turns my stomach too.
I sincerely hope that this is a distraction and that it wasn’t Rafe. I love that kid! I am hoping the whole thing draws him into the Fluke thing. Sam might discover that it was Fluke, and not Rafe, idk. I just really hope it’s not Rafe.
SO… who else thinks Ric died yesterday?
RC and team like to twist&turn and bring surprises.. At times things are not as they seem.
I’d guess it’s none of the above…
Whomever it was it will be a shocker !
(I like that:)
I don’t find anything surprising about this writing. We all called the Dante /Lulu baby reveal with Britt 9 months in advance. We all knew AJ stood for Ava Jerome. We all knew Ava would be pregnant. We all know Victor Cassadine is Nathan’s father. I find Ron’s “twists and turns” quite predictable.
I agree Johnny…its like us fans know what will happen next before the spoilers…did you see that stupid scene in the park with Commisioner Devane and Jordan, supposedly an undercover agent, talking about PCs mob ect. right there in the open for all to see? Ridiculous!!!
That in of itself is a shocker.
Johnny,
RC let us know.. he dropped more hints than needed, he had us LOL 🙂
Nonetheless, there have been many twists&turn that were total surprise.. 🙂
Only someone whose brain had stopped working wouldn’t have known AJ was Ava… lol
RC wanted us to now that so we could all cheer QJ on to being found not guilty!
RC wants us to know what he wants us to know for us to get into the story knowing when they don’t know.. lol
soap writing 101 ..
It was Audrey, no doubt about it. Woman had been knocking back tequila shots trying to work up the nerve to tell Liz to watch her own kids for once.
And OOPS!! Baby Plot Point came to a head earlier than expected.
Either that or AJ did it. Didn’t AJ do EVERYTHING bad that has ever happened in PC? From the way everyone talks he did.
I am still trying to figure out what AJ ever ever ever did that was so bad other than love his son and try to get him back from the murderer who kidnapped him as a child and held him hostage his whole life and subjected him to shootings, death, rale, murder, etc. Nothing AJ ever did even comes close to what Sonny or nearly everyone else on the show has done.
Rape…not rale.
A.J. did some rather despicable things, but you’re right, it was all in the name of saving his son’s life from Sonny and Carly. I love Carly, she may be my favorite character on the entire show, but she makes very poor life choices. I kind of hate Sonny. I see through the b.s. and recognize that he’s a thug and a bully and I kind of agree with Monica. I mean, who bangs his youngest son’s middle aged girlfriend in the tomb of the birth father of his adopted eldest son that he murdered? Sonny is a jerk. Now,… Read more »
But, I still think Sonny was the real villain here, and not A.J.
LOL…
then you had better throw in some Leslie
she dingbatted her belonging… where am I headed
she was charging to the hospital… to get at Epiphany
or had just trysted with magic mylo
it was Leslie Webber
AJ pushed Carly down the stairs causing her miscarriage, he caused climate change, he created the national deficit, and he is responsible for GM’s massive safety violations. It’s all AJ’s fault.
He didn’t push her- he grabbed her, she pulled away, falling down the stairs. Besides, if he was going to push her, he’d make sure she was DEAD!!!!
go to YT and see .AJ did not push Snarly down the stairs. She came to the house to shove it in AJ’s face that she was pregnant with Scummys child.She was rubbing it in, and she tripped. He tried to grab her to stop her from falling. he should have shoved her for all the dirty things she did to him. If she had died falling down the stairs, I would have cheered. AJ was the EVUL why because he was an alcoholic who fell off of the wagon. GMAB.This show is a joke. I don’t care who caused… Read more »
I wish it was AJ. At least I’d be interested. Unfortunately it wouldn’t involve Sean Kanan and we’d be told about everything that happened off-screen.
Avatar, I agree AJ didn’t push Carly. I was being ironical.
Its probably Rafe..That would be sad..I like this kid..he a good young actor and was left in back burner for the longest time, not a mention of him..Now they finally show him on screen, a coke addict who will steal for drugs..So two and two together is most likely is Rafe on high binge.
Very true, Omar. When he was introduced, Rafe was such a sad, sweet boy who just needed some love. Molly was the perfect source for that, and to put her back with TJ was simply repetitive and unnecessary…they already played that duo for all it was worth, which was not much in my estimation. Rafe and Little Miss DL (or is it LD? Can’t keep track of Alexis’s “progressive” naming habits….) should have definitely been “summer lovin'” last year and on. In the meantime, the showrunners turned Rafe into a sullen, stalking tattletale emo freak, that not even his own… Read more »
lmfao…im going to give some of my plaid shirts to goodwill now!!!
Oh, no, Jimh, don’t do that. Plaid shirts are still very much en vogue. But, looking at your name has just sparked a nostalgic thought. Rafe looks like Wally. How odd!
@Nonna! LOL. He DOES look like Wally…actually I think he looks like a cross between Wally and the Beav…
I don’t know about those plaid shirts jimh…I’m thinkin’ only a model could pass those suckers off as “en vogue.” I vote goodwill good riddens!
@jimh….Didn’t mean to stir a debate over the merits of plaid…there is nothing wrong with it, per se! (So please save yourself a trip to Goodwill….LOL.) I was simply referring to the retro style of shirt that Rafe wore as doing him no favors….particularly when mixed with his unfortunate choice of jewelry! Every time they do a close-up on his angelic little visage those clunky diamond studs just look so girlie and WRONG! I think some pirate hoops would have looked more masculine and bad @$$, along with a black tee shirt (ala “Jason”) to reflect his move to the… Read more »
@Nonna and rebecca1….I actually think our Rafe looks like a cross between “The Beave” and “Eddie Munster,” aka Butch Patrick. I really wish that for the Halloween episodes the wardrobe wizards would have clad this problem manchild in an Eddie-style short velvet pantsuit along with the obligatory “Wolfie” doll as an accessory!!!! Would have been a hoot!!!!
okay…I’m getting back on the Rafe train as another image comes to mind…Anson Williams aka Potsie from Happy Days! LOL…if they ever do a modern day remake we’ve got Steve Burton as Fonzie and “Rafe” as Potsie… Dr. O can be Mrs. Cunningham and Mac could be Mr….
Oh the endless possibilities… LOL!
@rebecca1…OMG! You are SO right, Rafe does look like “Potsie!” He is such an amalgam of retro-sitcom stars it isn’t even funny!!!
my guess is a drugged out Rafe. Ava made threats but I don’t think she did it. Not Silas or Julian or Ric either. Fluke wouldn’t care, but don’t think it was him.
Figure it will be Rafe, because of the drugs….BUT I really hope it’s Levi, because he’s a MAJOR douche, which would give me the satsifaction of seeing Maxie dump his ass and Nathan being able to put him behind bars!
The obvious two suspects for the longest time was either Fluke or Ava…they both had motive. Fluke to scare Spencer (since Emma was in the car) and Ava to silence Carlos. I don’t think anyone intentionally wanted to kill anyone in this case…but impart a warning.
However, I agree with several posts above. Unfortunately it might be Rafe…either he rode them off by accident, got scared and kept going…and that’s what drove him (no pun intended!) to drugs. Or, he was already on drugs, high…and inadvertently caused the accident.
I, too, think he might be the son of Silas and Nina.
I wish he was Nina and Silas’ son, but the years don’t add up. ALSO, why are the writers so hellbent on making Rafe a coward? Ratting out Molly and TJ to her mommy? Sucker punching TJ? Ughhhh… I liked Rafe.
Agree. You’re right. I wasn’t adding the years. (Although maybe like his father (who knows? maybe he IS a vampire!…so too is Rafe and thus is older than he looks! 😉 )
I do suspect there’s a child of theirs out there that Madeleine has hidden away…
As for Rafe…they made him this good, sweet boy from the beginning. Vulnerable, sympathetic, likeable. But LOL…they really have made him rather wimpy. Did you see how he ducked…practically cowered when TJ was about to punch him? C’mon Rafe. No girl, let alone Molly, is going to be attracted to you “man up.”
I really think that Kiki is the actual daughter of Nina and Silas….I have never gotten that much of a motherly vibe from Ava in reference to her supposed child….they are more like sisters or something. This would certainly explain that void….I can also picture Ms. Jerome as being thrilled to take Nina’s baby off Madeline’s hands since she obviously was obsessed with Silas and would thus covet owning his progeny. Even physically, Kiki looks more like an amalgam of Nina and Silas than Ava and Silas. Just saying…..
That thought did cross my mind and may actually be the case. Perhaps Madeleine thought her daughter would wake from the coma and she’d be able to tell her that Silas and Ava had a baby…increasing the emotional wallop of the affair. But I don’t think Ava’s removed from Kiki…actually, I think other than Morgan she’s the only person Ava cares about. I certainly don’t see them as sisters…just that Kiki is drawn as a tough chick who doesn’t take “stuff” from anyone, including her mother. And with all her mother has done to her…lying about her father, sleeping with… Read more »
And on another note…if Kiki does turn out to be Nina’s…it could put another wedge between Sam and Silas, who I’m actually rooting for.
@rebecca1…I agree that my Kiki maternity theory has a few holes in it, but then again that never stopped RonC from fitting a storyline to his particular whims. I’m not saying that Ava is necessarily removed from her “daughter”….I do believe she sincerely cares for her, but there is just something off about that relationship that I could never quite put my finger on. Also, I am sure there is so much more to Ms. Jerome’s background that has left to be revealed, so there could be any variety of explanations as to why she withheld her “babygirl” from Silas….pressure… Read more »
@rebecca1…I agree that my Kiki maternity theory has a few holes in it, but then again that never stopped RonC from fitting a storyline to his particular whims. I’m not saying that Ava is necessarily removed from her “daughter”….I do believe she sincerely cares for her, but there is just something off about that relationship that I could never quite put my finger on. Also, I am sure there is so much more to Ms. Jerome’s background that has left to be revealed, so there could be any variety of explanations as to why she withheld her “babygirl” from Silas….pressure… Read more »
I’m guessing Levi is a drug dealer and Rafe somehow got mixed up with him. And Maxie is going to blab something that either Sam or Nathan will overhear and investigate.
Then Sam and Nathan are going to realize their cousins….
I can see that, JustSaying, Levi could be linked to Jerry. One way or another, he is trouble.
I just do not see how Sam and Nathan realize they’re suddenly cousins?
Ciao, “Nonna” e benvenuta! What a treat to have you join us here! We have been wondering about your darling and much-missed FAS…please send our greetings to her and give us an update….it has not been the same @MFSoaps since her departure!!!! Having said that, I can now see where her talent for expression and observation emanates….you rock!!!!! As for the possible Jerry link to Levi, I also proposed that possibility….perhaps he is even his progeny? (Shudder at that thought, but there is truly something inherently evil about Maxie’s new beau….he has charlatan written all over his smarmy smirk.) At… Read more »
I think it is Heather.. she is baaaaacccckkkkkkkk!!
Please Rafe all of a sudden a drug user that came out of left field…think they are spinning their wheels to prolong the ties between Patrick & Sabrina. Another storyline that won’t go anywhere sorry to say…give us back the old Patrick he needs a meaty story!
Amen to that, Cathy! I’ve expended every last ounce of incredulity in reference to the ninny nurse and her never-ending, “Perils of Pauline” storyline which seemingly just won’t go away!!!! During yesterday’s episode, I saw the not-so-subtle foreshadowing of her fantastical delusions of bridal grandeur, and I thought to myself, oh, they won’t go THERE, but voila, never underestimate the grasping, idiotic machinations of this regime when it comes to highlighting and glorifying the “Sobber.” Here we go again….talk about jumping the shark! Enough already, as @Johnny referenced the other day, there is absolutely nothing that the ptb’s can conjure… Read more »
I tried to like Sabrina…she even reminded me of a nurse i had last summer when i was in the hospital…i kept hoping they would pair her to someone else since Patrina didnt work…now she looks to be having a breakdown…bet you cant wait for that…lol
They had to write her off for her maternity leave…and I think it’s perfectly believable that one so emotionally sensitive as Sabrina would unravel at the loss of her baby. First, she was left at the alter by a man she loves…then their baby dies.
I look forward to her return and I have a feeling they’re going to write her a bit stronger…with Carlos by her side.
@jimh…..Did your nurse have a “magic stethoscope,” too or was it just standard issue??? LOL….Sorry, just had to ask!!!!!
@rebecca1….Yes, I understand they had to get all creative and think of a snappy send-off for Sappy, but quite frankly this whole pregnancy and baby death was extremely gratuitous and unnecessary…for those of us who cannot stand the character, the entire episode came off as campy and comical and for those who have invested in this nurse and her Cinderella fantasy, it was cruel and uncalled for….I think it was particularly insensitive to viewers who had similar real life experiences because the drama was done so poorly and only as a plot point of convenience. I still maintain that after… Read more »
I don’t know who is behind it but I want to shake his or her hand. Glad they got rid of the unneccesary plot point.
I just wish they took out Sabrina as well.
So I assume the character of Rafe will be leaving PC soon? We haven’t seen him in forever, and now he’s doing drugs and was the one that hit Patrick and Sabrina? Anytime a character does a 180 like that, out of nowhere, you know it’s the end……
I sincerely hope that it wasn’t Rafe. I really, really liked that character, he was so lost and sweet and took such good care of “Danny Boy”. I’ve been so happy with all of the work that the current writers have done on GH over the past two years or so, but they dropped the ball with Rafe. I think a lot of it had to do with the problems with the actresses playing Felix’s sister, I forget her name already. But, regardless, I don’t want to see Rafe turned into a psycho and then written or killed off the… Read more »
I think the shooting below, in the holding cell, was fabricated. Rick’s death will be faked in order to flush out Fluke, and for Rick’s protection.
“Flush out Fluke…” I love your use of alliteration, “Nonna!” ; )
Grazie, carissima Shay. I truly appreciate your warm welcome. I only hope that my mischievousness, at times, is not too apparent. I feel as though I know you as you really hit it big with my beautiful grand baby, Alida, aka FAS. Thank you for asking . She is doing very well; made quite a few friends and due to her bubbly personality, has become quite popular. We have family spread over the entire peninsula, so she is never alone. Besides, her boyfriend, Michael, attends the same institute. It is an international school, thus their studies are in English. I… Read more »
Prego, “Nonna!” Likewise, I feel as if I already know you, since your lovely “Alida” always wrote of you with such respect and affection! The two of you have that rare and special thing known as a “mutual admiration society!” While our most enjoyable correspondence obviously did not have the chance to reach such an advanced level, we certainly had a great time playing off each other’s thoughts and theories, and I truly miss that! However, what wonderful (but certainly not unexpected) news that your charming granddaughter is taking Milan by storm….how very proud of her you must be!!!! I… Read more »