This sounds like a “must-have” for your soap memorabilia! People Magazine has put together a commemorative issue all about the legacy of All My Children that ends its ABC network television run in September after 41 years on the air.
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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Why didn’t People magazine do a special ATWT issue when they went off the air? I would have purchased that one.
Agreed, as why not a GL issue it’s was the longest show in broadcast history!?
You know, I hope that AMC changes their opening when they move to online or cable…. I hate the opening that they currently have. I don’t know if anyone in charge ever reads these things, but I think it would be a great idea to do a slightly, and I do mean slightly upgrade of the original opening of AMC…you know, the one from 1970. Just speed the tempo up slightly and add the characters and you have something special, and something we long time fans would enjoy. That’s the one thing that I like about Y&R, they have kept… Read more »
thank you michael for this info – i just pre ordered my copy!
I’m pleased that PEOPLE magazine is doing this(printing a commemorative issue
of their magazine,for All My Children and its fans)however,I am a little disappointed
that they put RYAN on the cover(at least it looks like Ryan)and not “Angie and Jesse”
who are a HISTORIC couple;they are the 1st AA supercouple in the history of daytime!
Wtheck,PEOPLE?!
Today was a very sad day,I felt like I lost my best friend. I am so upset what will I do without my Erica and the the rest of the cast I loved for years. I will miiss AMC. I feel like I went to a funeral today.
Oh Oh, People Magazine goofed…. On page 100 (the wedding of Phil & Tara) listed Richard Hatch and Karen Lynn Gorney as the married couple, but it wasn’t Richard Hatch (on page 82) it was Nicholas Benedict (on page 78). I remember when AMC began, the love triangle revolved around Philip, Tara, and Chuck; Erica and Jeff Martin seemed to be a side story, however, I love the way it evolved.