“It can be stressful for a 19-year-old heterosexual boy
to sit in a room and give another man a blowjob.”
– Joshua Jackson discusses his first day on the set of Cruel Intentions.

You know Pride Month is coming to an end when Broadway Bares takes place in NYC.  This annual shindig is a kinda burlesque show where (mostly) Broadway stars get to appear in various forms of undress and strut their stuff.  It was started in 1992 by a group of dancers who wanted to raise funds for the fight against AIDS.  One of those dancers, the multi-hyphenate Jerry Mitchell, has worked each year to top himself – good work if you can get it!  This year’s edition raised a record-breaking $2,447,967 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.  For the eighth year in a row, the bulk of those funds were raised by our pal Mark MacKillop – who brought in an outstanding $277,500.  To put that into perspective, the runner-up was Jennifer Geller, who brought in $52,607.  I will remind everyone that despite these impressive numbers, Mr. MacKillop is still not “Broadway’s own”, as no producer has been bright enough to cast him on the Great White Way.

This year’s show was subtitled “Come Out, Come Out” and had a Wizard of Oz theme.  Rather than Dorothy, their lead was Dante (played by Bradley Gibson from The Lion King).  There were a number of special guests, including Todrick Hall, Alex Newell, and even Nicole Scherzinger, who dashed over from the set of Sunset Blvd to join her dancers for a performance of the Pussycat Dolls’ “Buttons”.  Videos can be found on BillyMasters.com.