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Red Bucket Follies 2025

  • Writer: Jordan Stanley
    Jordan Stanley
  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min read

It’s my fifteenth year as a backstage singer for the Red Bucket Follies (and in the last few years, one of the “Vannas” presenting the awards)!


Doug Shapiro with the cast of Red Bucket Follies 2025

Doug Shapiro performs with Kristin Chenoweth at the Red Bucket Follies 2025
Doug Shapiro performs with Kristin Chenoweth at the Red Bucket Follies 2025

With a whirlwind of songs, skits and dances created by Broadway’s best, this year’s Red Bucket Follies delivered humor, heart and theater magic to the legendary New Amsterdam Theatre. The annual variety show, performed December 8 and 9, 2025, celebrated 55 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies that participated in the fall #RedBuckets fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.


Red Bucket Follies and the six weeks of in-theater fundraising raised a record-shattering $7,344,304. That’s the highest total ever raised in a Broadway Cares fundraising season, flying past the previous record of $6.8 million just set in the spring.


Check out the opening number below!





Doug Shapiro performs in the opening number of the Red Bucket Follies 2025

 
 
 

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