Well-hung poster (Image via BCEFA) Sunday marked my umpteenth year at Broadway Bares, the annual charity burlesque show put on at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom by Broadway Cares.

This year's edition, Broadway Bares: Pleasure Park, was a creative highpoint among recent years on every level. If I can avoid coming down with COVID soon, it will be an even huger improvement over last year!

DONATE TO BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS HERE ANYTIME Directed by Laya Barak and Kellen Stancil, Pleasure Park sent up the national obsession with Disney by presenting an alternate-world version where it's more than okay to say “gay.” A world of laughter, a world of tears ...

and a world without so many clothes. Spotted in the crowd: songstress Mila Jam & actor Robin de Jesús Turns out it pays to be gay/do crime — the event raised $1,887,014 for Broadway Cares.

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