Easter Bonnet Competition Raises $5.5 Million for BC/EFA

Stage Directions: The annual Broadway Easter Bonnet Competition took place April 25 and 26 at the Minskoff Theatre, capping six weeks of fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The award for bonnet design went to the company of An American in Paris for its two-sided bonnet of an exploding smartphone, while the year’s top fundraising award went to Hamilton, which raised $516,029. All told the event raised a record $5,528,568, and held plenty of surprises—detailed after the jump.