Broadway Bares, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS annual burlesque revue, kicks off its 2012 season with the Solo Strips, a preview show featuring some of the hottest boys on Broadway in scorching solo stripteases, on Ma6 at XL in New York.

This year’s Solo Strip dancers are Cesar Abreu (The Metropolitan Opera, Broadway Bares 19-21), Guto Bittencourt (Les Misérables, Chicago, Broadway Bares 21), Josh Buscher (Priscilla, Broadway Bares 19-21), Sam Cahn (Memphis, Broadway Bares 21), Adam Fleming (above; Wicked, Broadway Bares 16, 18, 20, 21), Nick Kenkel (Evita, Broadway Bares 11-18, 20, 21), Grasan Kingsberry (Leap of Faith, Broadway Bears 16, 21), Andy Mills (Memphis, Broadway Bares 21), Brandon Rubendall (Anything Goes, Broadway Bares 20-21) and Robb Sherman (The Skinny, Broadway Bares 17-21).

Of course, this is all just to wet your appetite for the main Broadway Bares XXII show on June 17, when this year’s theme is Happy Endings (and not the type you get in fairy tales).

For tickets to Broadway Bares and Solo Strips, visit broadwaybares.com. Photos: BC/EFA