20 Al Hirschfeld prints that are now available for Bie to benefit Broadway Care
Broadway cares20 Al Hirschfeld prints that are now available for Bie to benefit Broadway Care
The signatures contain Julie Andrews, Ellen Greene, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, and more.
Twenty prints with limited edition of late caricaturist Al Hirschfeld is now open to bids to benefit Broadway Cares and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
The prints, published in small numbers, are also drawn by the Broadway and Hollywood armories that appear in the classic works: Alan Alda, Julie Andrews, Kevin BaconCher, Michael Crawford, Ellen Greene, Joel Gray, Mark Hamill, Jessica Lange, Jose Llana, Donna McKychnna, Ian McKellen, Liza Minnelli, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mandy likes, Bernadette Peters, Chita rivera, Linda Ronstadt, Which snake, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Walkenand John Williams.
Under the prints at the Hirschfeld auction, Rivera, who passed away in January, is with Dick van dyke in Bee bee Birdiesigned by Rivera; Oscar winner Andrews, forever by Hirschfeld commemorated as Eliza Doolittle in My fair ladyopposite Rex Harrisonsigned by Andrews; Tony winner McKellen, who appeared in the Broadway production of 2001 as Edgar Dance of deathsigned by McKellen; and the Oscar winner Long, a 2024 Tony nominee for Mother playillustrated in Tennessee Williams‘ A Street wagon named Desiresigned by long.
“No artist or artistic style means the Broadway community more than all Hirschfeld,” said Tom Viola, executive director of Broadway Care, in a statement. “Our constant collaboration with the Al Hirschfeld Foundation and the generosity of Hirschfeld collectors and Broadway enthusiasts old and new, people across the country will provide critical illnesses and crisis with meals and medication, health care and hope for months and years to come.”
“Hirschfeld -Consumers have been asking for years to publish these images as prints. If the artists, who felt honored to be drawn by the Line King, return the favor by signing these very limited expenses, it is a tribute to how much Hirschfeld and Broadway Cares mean to this community,” adds David Leopold, the creative director of the all Hirschfeld Foundation, By. ‘This year we have ten Tony winners in the group. Some like Donna McKechnie in A choir lineMichael Crawford in Phantom of the operaand Joel Gray in Cabaret is drawn in the roles for which they won their Tonys. It is an incredible award -winning collection. ”
Broadway Cares is one of the country’s leading operating-based, non-profit AIDS fundraising and awards organizations. Using the talents, resources and generosity of the US theater community, Broadway Cares has raised more than $ 300 million since 1988 for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical diseases in the United States.
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