Broadway Backwards 4 brings the gay!

The fourth annual “Broadway Backwards” concert benefiting New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center raised the roof of the American Airlines theater on Monday, February 9. No surprise that the audience was packed; with such performers and presenters as Whoopi Goldberg, Mario Cantone, Alan Cumming, Cheyenne Jackson, Christopher Sieber, John Tartaglia, Michael Urie, and beloved Florence Henderson on hand, the show – in which well-known songs from Broadway musicals are presented in a new, gayer context – was really something else. Here are pics of this very special, one-night-only performance.

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Alan Cumming and the male ensemble got the show going with the production number “Rainbow High,” from Evita. 

Comedy legend Anne Meara kvelled as Kirsten Wyatt joyously sang “I Met a Girl” from Bells are Ringing, backed by the full company.

Whoopi Goldberg and company offered an all-female version of “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story.