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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Denyse couldn’t really explain the inappropriate relationship with AJ. Always fun listening to Vincent. I think I would rather have another episode. I doubt I will watch the recaps. Because the episodes are so short I will probably just watch them all together over the weekend. With the exception of Miranda, loving all the characters. It is not that I don’t like Denyse, I just don’t like the character. Also, there is too much cursing. Cursing is appropriate sometimes but too much gets to be distracting to the story. AMC has always been a classy soap….please don’t lose that. Love… Read more »
All interesting however when I went to Hulu to get lost in my stories I was pretty disappointed that they opted for this discussion time. Hope this is not going to happen every Friday.
It is going to happen every Friday (for now). I wonder if they will change it later on when the shows start to do really well and they can afford to tape extra shows.
I think our stories are only on Mon.-Thurs. And Fri. is a recap of everything.
I will be skipping Fridays…
Me too.
I have an idea… on Friday why not have it be a Michael Fairman Hangout with fans and cast taling about the shows and the week and the making of it?
How is the relationship between Miranda & A. J. Inappropriate? They were born on the same day, grew up together, and are close.
Looks like I will be skipping Fridays as I wont be watching the recap episode on Fridays.I wish they would put on a new episode on Friday instead of what they are doing.
liked the show.Still can’t get over how much the Miranda actress looks like Eden R.>I like the show so far Which is funny for someone who had shut the show off for years, coming back to see Jesse return and the end,.I am giving them a chance just wish I could ff Dixie the actress and character gets on my last nerve.
read this wrong what did I think of the recap I liked it. I like seeing the actors. Makes me see the characters differently and not dislike them as much makes them more human. I am not a David fan, but I did watch GL when Lujack came on, played by VI.
I think the More recaps & interview shows of AMC & OLTL are interesting. I like to see behind the scenes of our favourite shows. I like the interactive aspect of it, too.
I think they should combine both more eps & turn it in to a soap talk show where the host goes behind the scenes of both shows & have 3 actors form each show come on & take about the shows & also have a spot in the show where they tell what else the actors are doing & the show will have fans from both show & there will be a Q&A sport & at the end gave a sneak peek of the next week shows .
I liked the recap show until they got to the lifestyle segment. I would much rather have longer interviews and Q&As with the cast and crew as well as a more in-depth recap. It would be nice to see how the actors feel about the situations their characters are in for that week.
I think the relationship advice is idiotic – sorry, that’s my opinion. If they want to interview the actors on Friday and ask them what they think of their characters that is fine, and some “behind the scenes” is all right, but aside from that I like the storylines and I don’t need to be inter-active. If they want to do a Friday re-cap that’s fine, I guess, but I don’t need relationship advice thrown at me and I don’t need to see where you can buy a bathing suit. I just want to see the show(s). I feel very… Read more »