Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster to host 2024 Broadway Barks

Broadway Barks is back!

The 26th annual animal adoption event is set for 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, in Shubert Alley.

The event will be hosted by Broadway Barks co-founder and Great Bright Way legend Bernadette Peters, alongside Broadway favorite Sutton Foster, who stars in "Once Upon a Mattress" starting Wednesday, July 31.

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Peters co-founded the event with Mary Tyler Moore in 1998. More than 2,000 homeless cats and dogs from tri-state area animal rescue groups have been introduced by members of the Broadway community at the event, with approximately 85% of them finding homes.

This year's program begins at 3 p.m., with celebrity presentations between 5 and 6:30 p.m. at Shubert Alley, located between West 44th and 45th streets in Manhattan.

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Broadway Barks is free. Celebrity participants and participating animal rescue groups will be announced soon.

For more information, visit broadwaybarks.org.

Broadway Barks also continues its trek across the pond, with the second annual live West End Woofs (and Meows) set for Saturday, Aug, 10, at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, in London. It will be hosted by Peters and Elaine Page. West End Woofs grew out of an online edition during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster to host Broadway Barks Aug. 3