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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’m not voting. In my heart, “Santa Barbara” will always be the best soap opera ever.
“Days of Our Lives” is bound to win this. Fans of that show are rabid and obsessed like no other.
LOL!!! I think you’re on to something. Join us.
The favorite soaps are the ones that got cancelled! Shows how stupid the TV stations were for getting rid of them!
I saw the results and thought the same thing. Expensive or not, when will someone realize that there are multiple ways to give soap fans what they want and bring some of these soaps back in some form or fashion?
Gee…. you don’t think this poll might just reflect viewers trying to make a point do you?
GH is far better than both AMC and OLTL; maybe a little backlash here at their cancellations??
Did you actually WATCH “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” though?
I actually began watching both (and “General Hospital”) in 1992 and for a good twenty years, it was very obvious (at least to me) that AMC and OLTL were miles better than GH.
I mean, it wasn’t even close. Most of the blame, though, goes to Jill Farren Phelps for turning it into The Sopranos on daytimein the 2000’s. It was much, much better from 1992 to 96.
Wish you would have left it at that instead of coming over to GH so that we have to live with FV/RC and Todd, Starr and Silas.
If not GH, then Days should be the winner…it was the only soap to be featured on the cover of Time magazine…that alone should mean something…GL was the longest running serial that started on radio…AMC and OLTL had their moments too…hey, they are all winners!!!
This is pointless…each soap has had there moment in the spotlight the last 60 plus years…all have had there ups and downs…ive listed my top favorites but sometimes some show i may list at no.3 might later be no.10 later depending how i felt about the storyline and its current cast at the time i was watching…i liked Another World mostly from the 1960s to the 70s but not so much later on…there are times now i think GH is best and next time i think its Days…so even my own top ten i listed is pointless…i loved all the… Read more »
As I said twice on this topic– the best soap is whatever soap you enjoy watching– there should be no competition between them, you are spot on– just enjoy whichever one you like and the winner will be—- YOU.
Oooooh, this is going to be a tough one, but I voted for OLTL and DOOL. Not easily though. I loved AMC for years (until Ryan Lavery ate the show) and GL was a 70+ year iconic soap! I love OLTL & Days, but based on longevity I think the prize should rightfully go to GL in the end. Tune in tomorrow…
Who cares, parade magazine is read by the elderly clearly voting for soaps that are gone. How boring!
Days of our Lives is very much alive and thriving!!! Get with THE program!!!
The elderly hysterical. Watch out you might get it if you are lucky.
It’s not boring…It’s a poll…of soaps…past and present. There’s only four left on network…so most of them are “gone…”
There are votes on best band, actor, president, TV show, movie…many from the past. If it’s boring to you…don’t vote…Simple.
One Life to Live just edges out Guiding Light.
I hope GL or OLTL wins and the voting was fair for all.
Go OLTL!!!!
I have only watched ABC soaps.. but never cared much for AMC or OLTL. GH was and still is my all time favorite. they always have had the best looking men, story line were never really over the top. and they pretty much did real life issues. Bonus Dr. Noah Drake!!
Not surprised. AMC and either DAYS or GL for the win. Though, ATWT deserved it!
Again the best soap is the soap you enjoy/enjoyed watching– end of story.
I agree with you…i let myself get caught in the topic…it doesnt make sense to poll all these soaps and judge which is the all time best unless each fan has seen everyone to fairly judge them and many havent…all were the best and enjoyed by their fans at one point!!!
I am soooooo maaaad that gh got KOd from this. I do see people pulling together to get their fave soap to win. I think oltl will win. One Life to Live was always up to date with things everyone enjoyed. And OLTL weighed heavly in pop culture.
No way was OLTL ever better than GH .
AMC was better than OLTL but neither were ever better than GH ..
OLTL was SOOO much better than GH the last 3 years before it got cancelled by abc..It was also better during the mid 80’s and the early 90’s..AMC was the best soap around the half part of the 90’s overall.
OLTL for the win! Love those characters
What happened to Another World?
I’m voting for OLTL all the way. IMO BEST SOAP EVER!!!
For my money, OLTL always was and always will be the best. I’ve watched soaps since childhood and remember Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, The Doctors, and dozens of other short lived shows like Never Too Young. Yes, I’m old. I watched GH from the day one until 2005. And I watched AMC during the last 70s and early 80s. Besides the stellar cast, I love OLTL because the way the stories always kept up with current cultural issues. I never felt like OLTL was about making super stars. They certainly have the cast for it. Story… Read more »
I always thought OLTL was a big fat bore.
Don’t believe it! GH is the best bar none!!!
Well, I have to go with my favorite soap of all time — ONE LIFE TO LIVE. If they win, will that bring them back. I highly doubt it, but I’ll continue to remain hopefully.
Over the years, I have watched many of the soaps listed: OLTL, GH, RH, AW, GL, and Days. As stated before, each soap had its moments of brillance. Each of them richly deserving. Although its interesting how 3 of the last 4 are no longer on network tv. Oh well, good luck OLTL. I hope you are the winner.
OLTL will always be my favorite, I watch GH and like it but I love OLTL.
Looks like a stupid poll/contest. If you go by the soaps that have been ratings titans for extended periods of time, the best soaps of all time would be Guiding Light, As The World Turns, General Hospital and The Young & The Restless. Iconic soaps like AMC and OLTL, etc., have come and gone, BUT the four soaps I mentioned are the titans of the genre. Please let me know, fellow fans, if I missed any long-running #1’s, but I think I caught them all. I know DAYS and Another World were number one at times in the 1970’s, but… Read more »
I did some research, and it appears I missed Search for Tomorrow and All My Children on my list of past #1’s and a show called Hawkins Falls back in the 50’s. After the research, I’d say any list of the all-time greats would have to be topped by one of the following 3 shows: 1) The Young & The Restless: #1 for 26 years; 7 Emmy best show wins out of 26 nominations; 2) As The World Turns: #1 for 20 years; 4 Emmy best show wins; 3) General Hospital: #1 for 9 years; 11 Emmy best show wins.… Read more »
The people have spoken. Days of our Lives is the best soap of all time!
OLTL was and always will be my choice for best soap.
I am still pissed off at ABC for canceling OLTL. I barely watch that network anymore and once Grey’s Anatomy comes to an end I’ll be watching them even less!
started with EDGE OF NIGHT on cbs — loved the murder mysteries– and went with it to abc which introduced me to DARK SHADOWS. then I picked up AMC with chuck, tara, phil … and young erica. not sure why, but I just lost interest in it in the 70s when I went to college. began GH around the same time DS was on, and can recall when audry’s babysitter was killed and she hid the gun in the toilet, kept up with it for decades, but gave up when sonny and the mob crowded out every other story line.… Read more »
All MY Children is, in my opinion, by far the best soap. The last few years were a bit rough with the constant changes in head writers and focus, but it had wonderful character development and groundbreaking storylines throughout the years. My second choice would be the Young and the Restless. Third choice is Ryan’s Hope. Unfortunately, I just went on Parade site to vote for AMC and it states that the semifinal voting is closed. OLTL just beat AMC for the finals by a small margin. So it will be DOOL v OLTL. Oh well.
My favorite of all time was Another World.
Of the ones that are left, Days is best.
None that remain truly are the “best” of all time.
You need to think critically, and of course use the Nielsen ratings to determine that.
Overall from the 50’s through today, both ATWT and YR would fit that category.
And yes there will always be fan favorites GH and Days, but neither has the longtime ratings bragging rights.
The poll is fun for the fans to be sure.
I know thousands of people and none of them have ever been a Nielsen Ratings family or have ever known any! The Nielsen Ratings need to include everybody. All new TV’s should have Nielsen devices. Until then, Y&R is just lucky!
I know millions of people who are in the same boat. And every single one watches YR. So I’m completely on board. YR will be so lucky once that happens with all those TVs!
GH should have won. But I think everyone is trying to save OLTL. My vote would be OLTL. It was a very good show. Then AMC. Erica Cane was good but she didn’t win because she over acts.