Ladies Night for Rosie's Broadway Kids to Feature Brier, Callaway, Larsen, McArdle

By Andrew Gans
June 21, 2009

Four Broadway singing actresses will lend their talents to an upcoming evening to benefit Rosie's Broadway Kids.

Entitled Ladies Night for Rosie's Broadway Kids, the benefit performance will be held June 29 at the Maravel Arts Center in Manhattan. The evening will kick off at 7 PM with a reception/tour of the school, followed by the 7:30 PM performance.

Ladies Night will boast the talents of Kathy Brier ("One Life to Live," Hairspray), Liz Callaway (Baby, Cats, Miss Saigon), Anika Larsen (All Shook Up, Xanadu, Avenue Q) and Andrea McArdle (Annie, Les Miserables, State Fair).

Jeff Biering will be the evening's musical director. Producers are Michael Lee Scott and Colin Sheehan.

Tickets, priced $25, can be reserved by calling (646) 434-2774; tickets will be $50 at the door. Maravel Arts Center is located at 445 West 45th Street.

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Founded by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell and Lori Klinger in 2003, Rosie's Broadway Kids (RBKids) is a non-profit arts education organization "dedicated to enriching the lives of children through the arts. Using professional teaching artists, RBKids offers classes in dance, music and drama and a professional theater experience for children who might otherwise not have the opportunity. Its goal is to inspire excellence, motivate learning, uplift the human spirit, and to instill a lifelong appreciation for the arts." For more information visit www.rbkids.org.