Watch Chita Rivera, Tony Yazbeck, and More Broadway Stars Tear Up Broadway Backwards

Chita’s Billy Flynn may be even better than her Velma Kelly.

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March 23, 2016

On Monday, March 21, Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre held the 2016 Broadway Backwards benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The event raised a record $480,287 for the cause, and boasted a starry lineup of Broadway talent, who showed up to sing some gender-bending showtunes. Take a look at the highlight reel below, which includes a dapper Chita Rivera doing her best Billy Flynn, and a sequined Jay Armstrong Johnson doing his best Marilyn Monroe.

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