“An Evening with Ken Page”
Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay, Redwood City
A Gala to Benefit Broadway By the Bay
Honoring Ingrid and Dick Sponholz
Described as having “A pop style with more than a little southern soul in it… and openly theatrical” by The New York Times, on Broadway Ken Page originated the roles of Fats Waller in the hit musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical)as well as Old Deuteronomy in the Tony-Award winning musical Cats and his rousing gospel rendition of “Sit down Your Rockin’ the Boat” in Guys and Dolls earned him unanimous critical praise and the coveted “Theatre World Award”. Other theatre credits include Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Aida, The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz and It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. Film fans will recognize Page as the voice of Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. He has also had roles in several other films including Torch Song Trilogy, All Dogs Go To Heaven and Dreamgirls.
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Our 2009 Benefit Gala was a great success!
AN EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ
A Benefit Concert for
Broadway By the Bay
Sofitel Hotel
March 22, 2009
“Wow, what a performer! We loved Lucie. Thank you Broadway By the Bay for bringing such a great talent to the Peninsula.”
Lucie Arnaz began her long career in a recurring role on television on “The Lucy Show,” opposite her mother, Lucille Ball. At age fifteen, she became a series regular on “Here’s Lucy,” a show which ran for six seasons. She starred in her own series, “The Lucie Arnaz Show” and later in the critically acclaimed “Sons & Daughters” on CBS. On the big screen, Lucie has starred opposite Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), opposite Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack Goes to Washington, alongside Ken Howard in Second Thoughts and opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Henry Winkler in Down to You. Most recently Lucie costarred with Richard Roundtree, Robert Loggia and Bob Forster in Wild Seven and in a controversial new film about second hand smoke from writer/director Alyssa Bennett entitled, The Pack set to debut at Sundance this fall. Most recently Lucie spent several months on Broadway co-starring with Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz, Rachel York and Gregory Jbara, and then Keith Carradine, Brian d’Arcy James, Sherie Rene Scott and Richard Kind, in the rib tickling musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.