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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Todd Manning aka Roger Howarth he would be a hoot!
So agree with this! I would love to see Roger on there, he’d be hilarious 🙂
that was the first one I thought of too… he is a crack up!
Cool. Love it when the stars are on game shows. I’d love for Kirsten Storms to be one of the guests.
Definitely Michael Easton playing for the American Cancer Society. He would be great I think. Also Kelly Monaco.
Dominic Zamrogna (Dante) and Julie Berman (Lulu)
or
Laura Wright (Carly) and Maurice Benard (Sonny)
OK, I would love to see Nancy Lee Grahn, Jane Elliot or Julie Marie Berman on Who wants to be a millionaire. As far as the role that Meridith could play . . . hmm maybe a waitress at Kelly’s!
I want to know which cast members are going to be playing Millionaire!
My guesses would be Laura Wright, Kristen Alderson, Brandon Barash, Michael Easton, Kelly Sullivan OR Lisa LoCicero.
In the maybe pile: Finola Hughes, Nancy Grahn, Bradford Anderson
I’m not totally sure what to think about this-but it is nice to see corporate support for GH
I love Meredith. I wish she were back on Today. I watched the Today show when she became co-anchor, and I stopped watching when she left.
Guests playing for charity:
Dominic Zamprogna
Julie Marie Berman
Lisa loCicero
Kirsten Storms
Roger Howarth
Finola Hughes
Think Meredith should be a reporter for Todd’s rag newspaper…
My guess for the Guests:
Kristina Wagner
John J. York
Nancy Lee Grahn
Anthony Geary
Finola Hughes
Jason Thompson
Jane Elliott
Leslie Charleson
It would be great if pairs/couples played together. They could split their winnings or play for the same charity! This way we get to see a lot more of the cast!!
Meredith should play a reporter doing a story on the history of the hospital!
Would love for any of the actors to be on millionaire, just want to know WHEN it will be on??