One of my favorite Broadway events throughout the year was hands down the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction. Every year, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS holds an annual flea market to raise money for their cause. At this year’s event onSunday, Sept. 24, all previous records were broken and $1,023,309 was raised! The Flea Market was held in Shubert Alley and along West 44th and 45th Streets. It is always such a beautiful day watching the Broadway community and thousands of loyal Broadway fans come together to support an organization we all believe in.

I am thrilled to officially introduce you to my friend Sarah! I first met this sparkling little nugget backstage at Aladdin in February 2015 when she started as a swing dresser. She was a bit shy at first, but we eventually fell in love.I admire Sarah for her loyalty, patience, diligence, encouraging spirit and strong work ethic. She is an extremely valuable member of our girl squad, and not just because she's always willing to take thousands of pictures of LJ and I. So I hope you enjoy this little peek into Sarah’s world backstage!

So if you are just now tuning in to my life, I'd like you to introduce you to my fabulous best friend LJ! We met in Alabama way back in 2009 when I transferred to Samford University and became a theater major. We were always friendly but didn't become BFFs until she joined me working at Aladdin in February 2016. It is always a struggle not getting extremely sentimental when talking or writing about LJ so I'm going to save all my corny stories for a separate Team Teale post all about her. For now, I want to focus on her Broadway story. We had very different journeys to Broadway but have both always been passionate about the arts, and I'm pumped for you to get to know her better today.

One thing we love the most about Broadway here at #TeamTeale is its power to unify.  Everyone working on the Great White Way is creating a space where people from all walks of life can come together under one roof to jointly experience the power of live theater.  In a time when our country is inundated with divisive rhetoric, we appreciate how the cast and crew of the musical Hamilton housed at the Richard Rogers Theatre remind us daily of what unites our great country.

I am absolutely thrilled for you all to read this blog post so I can introduce you to my beautiful friend, Cate! Cate has been the Glinda Dresser at Wicked on Broadway for the past four years. I first met her in January 2015 during my first week working as a swing dresser at Wicked. I introduced myself to her at the company holiday party and remember being so nervous! Since then we've bonded through some crazy times (in and out of the theatre) and become so close. She has been an incredibly loyal and supportive friend to me. Cate is hilarious, generous, thoughtful and extremely intelligent. She always shows up for me when I need her, loves dressing up for theme parties of any kind AND she has the coolest tattoo of a purple spool of thread on her arm. So she's literally the best babe squad member a girl could ask for.