ALL: Daytime Unites May 2024

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[Paul Raven]

Jason looks a lot better there than he does on Y&R.

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Dominic Zamprogna
(screengrab from one of the twitter videos)

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Edited May 6, 2024 by janea4old

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Three pictures of Tabyana by C.Conley, all from this tweet
https://twitter.com/cconley116/status/1786893103884063132

 

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image credit C.Conley
https://twitter.com/cconley116/status/178691143050 5316820

text of the tweet:
Lady of the hour! Good Event 
@NancyLeeGrahn
 and her real man!

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Tonight she and her daytime
co-stars helped raise over 70k for ALS!!

 

 

Nancy Lee Grahn's boyfriend/fiancé/partner
is a music professor and also plays guitar in the band "East Bay Soul".

East Bay Soul did a benefit performance at this Daytime Unites event for ALS
(Turn audio on to hear his guitar playing)
 

Edited May 7, 2024 by janea4old

[janea4old]

image credit  TexasCarly on twitter
https://twitter.com/TexasCarly/status/1786914178281943438

For the full-sized (huge) view of the image:
open the tweet, then click on its image.

or go to this imgur link and then open the image itself in a new tab
 https://i.imgur.com/E3n7HYW.png


In front of the stage, on the floor below Nancy and Genie,
facing the audience, in the wheelchair with blond hair,
is Nancy's friend Michelle Strojny.
Michelle is battling ALS, and she is the inspiration for Nancy to support ALS research.

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Edited May 6, 2024 by janea4old

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zooming in on the above image:

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Zooming in on the guest of honor, Nancy's friend Michelle Strojny who is living with ALS

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from earlier in the day of the event -- interesting to see
who was seated with whom for the meet-and-greet autograph part of the day

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Edited May 6, 2024 by janea4old

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https://www.instagram.com/p/C6m66BwpFzs/

stephen_e_nichols
Good times for a great cause with the best people! Thanks to everyone who came out to yesterday’s ALS fundraiser — it was a success!! Shoutout to our fabulous emcee @jonathansfrakes, and special thanks and

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to my #generalhospital sister, @nancyleegrahn. Neil Bagg, this one’s for you. Miss you, buddy.

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^ instagram video with scenes of the event

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From the comments replying to this post:

nancyleegrahn
I adore you and miss you and wish you were still playing my bro. You’re a true gentleman and great friend   

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tried making a screengrab from Stephen Nichols' video

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Stephen Nichols, in his IG post, said
"Neil Bagg, this one’s for you. Miss you, buddy."
I see that Neil Bagg was a talent agent who died of ALS in 2012.
https://variety.com/2014/film/obituaries-people-news/neil-bagg-longtime-talent-agent-at-don-buchwald-dies-at-54-1201090624/

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Just to put everything on one thread:

Nancy interviewed by SOD March 13, 2024
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/general-hospitals-nancy-lee-grahn-alexis-on-her-star-studded-fundraiser/

Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, GH) has been hard at work planning a star-studded ALS fundraiser that will take place on May 4 in Glendale, CA.

“This is going to be a really classy event for ALS, where all monies are going to ALS,” begins Grahn. “It’s crossing over to all the soaps, so we have big players from all the soaps coming.”

While ALS factors into Grahn’s current on-air life as Alexis, whose friend and colleague, Gregory, is battling the disease, the cause is actually close to Grahn’s heart for a different reason. 

“I was actually doing Zoom events during Covid and I met this woman that I just fell in love with, Michelle Strojny. At the time, Michelle had been living with ALS for four years. Now, it’s five years. She is a mom of a teenage son, she has the most wonderful husband, and she has been dealing with this [disease] for quite a while. And obviously, there isn’t a cure yet. It’s not survivable yet. But as she says, it’s not incurable. Nothing is; it’s underfunded. But anyway, I just really dug this woman. She is so grounded and filled with grace, and she spends all of her time working to raise money for the cause. 

We did a fundraiser for her last year and then I thought, ‘You know what? The soaps don’t ever get together to do something for charity.’ Collectively, we have this amazing community and we don’t collectively use it for a good cause, and I think it’s such an easy thing for us to do and we could potentially really make a difference.

I thought, ‘We should gather together, have a fun day and night, and raise money!’ It’s called Daytime Unites, and it’s my hope that we do it again next year for another meaningful, underfunded cause.”

The event will feature not only opportunities to mix and mingle with the stars, “a really fun panel with the actors with some games and autographs, but a concert, as well,” the actress reports. “It should be a really fun event. It starts at one and will probably go until about nine or 10 at night. We need to sell lots of tickets and every penny is a tax deduction and will go to ALS,” she stresses.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/C6kIZ6zvaMR/

natevarni (Nathan Varni)
Great afternoon with daytime stars and their adoring fans uniting for a great cause! @als_one_official @nancyleegrahn #daytimeunites

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^ Nine photos on Varni's ig post.


The ALS organization "ALS ONE" replied to Varni's tweet.
 

Edited May 6, 2024 by janea4old

[janea4old]

They had several fundraising methods.
1) buy a ticket to the event. 
2) donate to ALS One via the event website.
3) donate something to the silent auction or buy something from the silent auction.

edit to add:
4) items donated for the raffle, attendees purchasing raffle tickets.

These are the items and opportunities available at the auction.
The auction might be closed now but you can still see the listings
https://live.classy.org/auction/new-event/05132560-5958-4aa6-8bf3-7c25f4f4b882

Items included
a Y&R signed script from Victor and Nikki's 1984 wedding.
a B&B signed script from (not sure, but I think it says episode 3921).
Special lunches or zoom events with a few actors, including Thorsten Kaye, Kathkleen Gati, Wally Kurth, Cameron Mathison.
Hats, coffee cups, etc. signed by actors.
set tours of B&B and Y&R
Photos signed by actors

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Updating this post much later on, with more info:

• Actually I think there were lots more items; but the ones that were sold earlier are no longer showing on the list.
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• At one point, I could see a bids page,
  listing actual names or "anonymous" ...
  with those who had won a bid paying X amount at the auction.
  In some cases, I saw that people had bid hundreds of dollars or a thousand dollars for something (but it didn't say what they bid for).

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One item was donated by a fan:
The fan painted watercolors of GH characters.

EDIT - These watercolor prints were prizes for raffle tickets purchased at the event.

Edited May 7, 2024 by janea4old

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updated the above post about the auction, with more info.  

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Two pics from photographer C.Conley 
From instagram post shared by CConley and NancyLeeGrahn:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6kp069r61rBmmEp0Xloj25bNRZJfwer2qImrU0/
 

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^ Christian LeBlanc and Patrika Darbo

 

Evan Hofer, Jason Thompson, Maurice Benard, NLG, Dominic Zamprogna

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Kristen Vaganos, NLG, and Kate Mansi


From photographer C.Conley 
From instagram post shared by CConley and NancyLeeGrahn:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6kp069r61rBmmEp0Xloj25bNRZJfwer2qImrU0/

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From photographer Michael Mattes
via NLG instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6pVv-yPFjl/