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The 2002 Easter Bonnet competition

Title: The 2002 Easter Bonnet competition [videorecording] / Presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS ; produced by Michael Graziano and Tom Viola ; directed by Sam Ellis ; [video prod. company] Broadway Beat.
Publication: New York, c2002.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Benefit performance featuring songs, dances, and comedy sketches. Performers from Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals compete to create the most original Easter Bonnet, with the results presented at the conclusion of each act. The proceeds from the event go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Unable to attend in person, Beatrice Arthur is represented by an audio recording, created especially for this show, which is played during the performance. The cast of the musical Sweet smell of success perform "That's how I say goodbye," a number cut from the show before it came to Broadway.

Series Statement

Easter Bonnet Competition for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Alternative Title

16th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition

Subject

Genre/Form

Musicals.
Dance.

Note

Minimal credits on tape.
Performers include cast members from the shows Urinetown, Mamma Mia!, Les miserables, Menopause: the musical, Naked boys singing!, The lion king, Sweet smell of success, Kiss me Kate, Aida, Proof, Metamorphoses, Elaine Stritch: at liberty, Chicago, The producers, and Disney's Beauty and the beast.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Opening number created by Christopher Gattelli (choreography), Seth Rudetsky (music director), and Tim Albrecht (production associate) ; production stage manager, Kristin Newhouse ; lighting design, Martin E. Vreeland ; stage managers, Elizabeth Burgess, Narda Alcorn, Theresa Bailey, and Michael Pule.

Performer (note)

Announcer: Patrick Quinn.
Speakers: Rosie O'Donnell and Jason Biggs.
Presenters: Rosie O'Donnell, Billy Crudup, and Kathleen Turner.
Performers include Doris Eaton Travis, Tara Rubin, Rosie O'Donnell, Leslie Kritzer, Paul Castree, Jason Opsahl, Karl Christian, Don Richard, Rick Crom, Hunter Foster, Michele Ragusa, Jennifer Cody, Louise Pitre, Judy Kaye, Rena Strober, Mary Jo Connell, Marnee Hollis, Joy Lynn Matthews, Tom Gualtieri, Charles Busch, Kelli O'Hara, Jack Noseworthy, John Guare, Rick Borutta, Michelle Robinson, Jim Borstelmann, Cady Huffman, Glen Rainey, Billy Hipkins, and Brian D'Arcy James.
Parsons Dance Company: George Smallwood and Henry Jackson.
Audio only: Beatrice Arthur.
Accompanists include Michael Lavine, Dick Gallagher, Ronnie Zito, and Marshall Coid.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, N.Y., April 23, 2002.

Call Number

NCOV 2755

OCLC

1273558220

Title

The 2002 Easter Bonnet competition [videorecording] / Presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS ; produced by Michael Graziano and Tom Viola ; directed by Sam Ellis ; [video prod. company] Broadway Beat.

Imprint

New York, c2002.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Series

Easter Bonnet Competition for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Opening number created by Christopher Gattelli (choreography), Seth Rudetsky (music director), and Tim Albrecht (production associate) ; production stage manager, Kristin Newhouse ; lighting design, Martin E. Vreeland ; stage managers, Elizabeth Burgess, Narda Alcorn, Theresa Bailey, and Michael Pule.

Cast

Announcer: Patrick Quinn.

Speakers: Rosie O'Donnell and Jason Biggs.

Presenters: Rosie O'Donnell, Billy Crudup, and Kathleen Turner.

Performers include Doris Eaton Travis, Tara Rubin, Rosie O'Donnell, Leslie Kritzer, Paul Castree, Jason Opsahl, Karl Christian, Don Richard, Rick Crom, Hunter Foster, Michele Ragusa, Jennifer Cody, Louise Pitre, Judy Kaye, Rena Strober, Mary Jo Connell, Marnee Hollis, Joy Lynn Matthews, Tom Gualtieri, Charles Busch, Kelli O'Hara, Jack Noseworthy, John Guare, Rick Borutta, Michelle Robinson, Jim Borstelmann, Cady Huffman, Glen Rainey, Billy Hipkins, and Brian D'Arcy James.

Parsons Dance Company: George Smallwood and Henry Jackson.

Audio only: Beatrice Arthur.

Accompanists include Michael Lavine, Dick Gallagher, Ronnie Zito, and Marshall Coid.

Event

Videotaped at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, N.Y., April 23, 2002.

Local Note

Gift of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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Added Author

Graziano, Michael, producer.

Viola, Tom, producer.

Ellis, Sam, director.

Gattelli, Christopher, choreographer.

Rudetsky, Seth, musical director.

Albrecht, Timothy, production personnel.

Newhouse, Kristin, production stage manager.

Vreeland, Martin E., lighting designer.

Burgess, Elizabeth, stage manager.

Alcorn, Narda E., stage manager.

Bailey, Theresa, stage manager.

Pule, Michael, stage manager.

Testa, Mary, host.

Testa, Mary, interviewee.

Oscar, Brad, host.

Oscar, Brad, interviewee.

Mason, Karen (Singer), host.

Kaye, Judy, host.

Kaye, Judy, performer.

Kaye, Judy, interviewee.

Pitre, Louise, host.

Pitre, Louise, performer.

Pitre, Louise, interviewee.

Seldes, Marian, host.

Seldes, Marian, interviewee.

Hibbert, Edward, 1955- host.

Ringwald, Molly, host.

Roberts, Tony, 1939- host.

Kunene, Ron, host.

Belack, Doris, 1926-2011, host.

Douglas, Illeana, 1965- host.

Quinn, Patrick, 1950-2006, narrator.

O'Donnell, Rosie, performer.

O'Donnell, Rosie, speaker.

O'Donnell, Rosie, presenter.

Biggs, Jason, 1978- speaker.

Crudup, Billy, 1968- presenter.

Turner, Kathleen, 1954- presenter.

Turner, Kathleen, 1954- interviewee.

Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010, performer.

Rubin, Tara, performer.

Kritzer, Leslie, performer.

Castree, Paul, performer.

Opsahl, Jason, performer.

Christian, Karl, performer.

Richard, Don, performer.

Richard, Don, interviewee.

Crom, Rick, performer.

Foster, Hunter, performer.

Ragusa, Michele, performer.

Cody, Jennifer, performer.

Strober, Rena, performer.

Connell, Mary Jo, performer.

Hollis, Marnee, performer.

Matthews, Joy Lynn, performer.

Gualtieri, Tom, performer.

Busch, Charles, performer.

O'Hara, Kelli, performer.

Noseworthy, Jack, 1969- performer.

Guare, John, performer.

Borutta, Rick, performer.

Robinson, Michelle M., performer.

Borstelmann, Jim, performer.

Huffman, Cady, performer.

Rainey, Glenn, performer.

Hipkins, Billy, performer.

James, Brian D'Arcy, performer.

Smallwood, George, dancer.

Jackson, Henry, dancer.

Arthur, Beatrice, voice actor.

Lavine, Michael (Musician), instrumentalist.

Gallagher, Dick, instrumentalist.

Zito, Ronnie, instrumentalist.

Coid, Marshall, instrumentalist.

Vlastnik, Frank, interviewee.

Davis, Eric, interviewee.

Ridge, Richie, interviewer.

Parsons Dance Company.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Organization), producer.

Broadway Beat (Firm)

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Organization), donor.

Research Call Number

NCOV 2755

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