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Tickets are no longer available online.
A limited number of tickets will be available for sale between 3 and 6:30 pm on Sunday, June 22, at the will call table inside the Hammerstein Ballroom lobby.
If your tickets are being held at will call, you can pick them up between 3 and 6:30 pm Sunday in the lobby of the Hammerstein or join the appropriate admission line when you arrive. You’ll be directed to the will call table as you enter the venue. The line for Table Seats (including Stripper Spectacular and Barest Insider Experience) and Cocktail Mezzanine will run toward Eighth Avenue; all other ticket types will line up toward Ninth Avenue.
9:30 pm and Midnight, Sunday, June 22
Hammerstein Ballroom
311 West 34th Street, NYC
The yellow brick road will get a tantalizing, technicolor twist when Broadway Bares: Come Out Come Out, this year’s Oz-ified spin on the highly anticipated striptease spectacular, makes its electrifying, heart-pounding debut.
Click your heels (or heels off) as 200 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers erupt into full-out, larger-than-life production numbers on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in two Wizard of Oz-inspired performances at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
Kellen Stancil, a Broadway Bares veteran and resident dance supervisor for the national tour of The Lion King, returns to direct after making his solo Bares directorial debut last year. Joining Stancil as associate director is veteran Broadway Bares performer Paula DeLuise. Mitchell and Nick Kenkel, a longtime Bares director and performer, are executive producers.
Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out will enchant audiences with a bold celebration of courage, heart and brains – which all look best with a little less clothing. Get swept up in a whirlwind of electrifying talent, unapologetic queer joy and the magic and mischief of Oz. Broadway’s hottest performers will strip down and step into their power, proving that true strength lies in community – the real Emerald City.
Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out will feature special appearances by Tony Award winner André De Shields, Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee, Bradley Gibson, 2025 Tony winner Jak Malone, Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita, Tony winner Alex Newell, Peppermint and 2025 Tony winner Nicole Scherzinger.
The tantalizing talent leading the choreographed production numbers with more than 200 dancers are choreographer and dancer Ehizoje Azeke, Tony d’Alelio, Brandon Gray, Amber Jackson, recording artist Mila Jam, Tyler Jimenez, Kolton Krouse, Amy Laviolette, Mark Mackillop, Samantha Pollino, Barry’s chief instructor Michael Pugliese, MiMi Scardulla, Jaquez Sims and Preston Taylor.
The choreographers bringing their expertise to the Emerald City, in addition to Stancil and DeLuise, are Mike Baerga, Marie Rose Baramo, Phil Colgan, Armando Farfan Jr., Billy Griffin, Reed Luplau, Sarah Meahl, Justice Moore, Rachelle Rak, Michael Anthony Sylvester and Marcus Williams.
Broadway Bares was created in 1992 by Mitchell during his time as a Broadway dancer. Looking for a way to raise awareness and money for those living with HIV/AIDS, Mitchell and six of his friends danced atop a New York City bar and raised $8,000 in Broadway Bares’ first iteration.
Last year’s standing-room-only edition took the audience to explore the bright lights and bodacious characters of Las Vegas at Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip, which raised $2.26 million. The evening brought the event’s lifetime total to $28.7 million raised for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Watch highlights from last year’s Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip
