Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
A front-row seat for the hottest show in town–Broadway’s finest strip down for a good cause.

This is your ticket behind the scenes to see Broadway’s sexiest performers displaying some of their greatest assets. Gorgeous stage idols from the biggest shows strut their stuff as you’ve never seen them before. It’s burlesque naughtiness lit up by the razzle-dazzle of the Great White Way. They tease, they titillate, they tantalize. And boy, do they deliver the goods. By the end of each number they’re wearing little more than a smile. But at the end of the show comes the real payoff; hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the theatre community’s unique fundraising and grantmaking organization.

Backstage Pass peeks behind the curtain at the famous event called Broadway Bares– conceived by Tony Award®—winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell–which sets New York City ablaze each summer. The hottest dancers in show business come together for this one-night-only sold-out “Strip-A-Thon”–a fundraising, eye-popping spectacle the likes of which Gypsy Rose Lee could never have dreamed. Now for the first time this luxurious keepsake album brings together all the sizzling posters, scintillating backstage shots, and scorching on-stage photographs from the past seventeen years of Broadway Bares. Sit back and enjoy the show.

Rating : - A Disappointment
Mitchell, Jerry. "Backstage Pass" Broadway Bares", Universe, 2008.
A Disappointment
Amos Lassen
I looked forward to "Backstage Pass" as I have always supported Broadway Cares but this time I was disappointed. Advertised as "part-portrait, part photo documentary, this vividly captivating book is an unblinking study of the sexiest stars on Broadway covered in almost nothing but the footlights". That may well be true but the photographs are way below the quality I expected and all of them had an "artistic haze". This makes the photos look so blurry that they are unclear and if they were not captioned it would be hard to know what is there.
Once a year Broadway does a "strip show" for "Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS" with all proceeds going to AIDS charities. The book is meant to be a pictorial of that event with photos taken on stage and behind the scenes. Some of the men are Broadway's sexiest men and supposedly they tease and tantalize. I really wish the pictures were clear and the book was not so expensive.