Kate Baldwin Set for HITS Benefit, 3/27

On March 27,  Finian's Rainbow's Kate Baldwin will be featured in a cabaret-style performance to benefit Houston's HITS Theatre.  The night will include Kate's favorite Broadway selections, including numbers from her CD, and possibly Finian's immortal signature tunes, 'How Are Things in Glocca Morra?' and 'Look to the Rainbow'. For tickets, visit www.hitstheatre.org.

Kate Baldwin is a veteran of Broadway and national stages alike. Her starring role in the recent revival of Yip Harburg's and Burton Lane's classic musical, Finian's Rainbow has proved her to be in the same league as Broadway's finest. The New York Times says of her work, "The show's first moment of magic arrives shortly after Ms. Baldwin's Sharon McLonergan descends the hills of Missitucky. Ms. Baldwin's cool, pure soprano gently rides the crests of the undulant melody, tugging at each question in the lyric with a sensitivity that perfectly expresses the song's tender, yearning essence".

Kate's debut album on PS Classics entitled "Let's See What Happens" features Lane and Harburg songs from both stage and feature films. Her interpretation of these melodic masterpieces has earned her the respect and praise from some of the leading names in the business. 

 Kate has appeared in the Broadway casts of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wonderful Town. She starred in the San Francisco (2005), Detroit (2006), and Toronto (2007) productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, She Loves Me at the Willliamstown Theatre Festival, and South Pacific at Arena Stage, earning a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Kate's concert work includes several appearances with Stephen Sondheim as a featured performer in his critically acclaimed evening, "A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim." She has appeared at the Chicago Humanities Festival, sung with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and with Broadway conductor Rob Fisher as part of Lincoln Center's prestigious American Songbook series.

Since its founding in 1980, HITS Theatre has two major goals for children in the arts: education and performance. However, a HITS education is much more than children learning to sing, dance and act. The program helps transform students into disciplined team players, creative thinkers, confident speakers and, perhaps most importantly, empathetic individuals. While many of our alumni have gone on to careers in the performing arts, many more have used the life skills and confidence they developed at HITS to become successful physicians, engineers, and attorneys in the community.

Today HITS is one of the leading performing arts education organizations for young people in the Houston metropolitan area. Throughout the year, HITS, a non-profit arts and education organization, provides musical theatre training for children ages 4 to 20 with a focus on production. Group classes, individual training, and performances take place in HITS' theatre, which is in the heart of the historical Heights area of Houston. It is dedicated to providing school age students the highest quality performing arts education with a focus on training in the musical theater disciplines of voice, dance and acting. HITS serves the entire Houston metropolitan region with registered students as far south as Pearland, east to Baytown, north to the Woodlands and west to Katy.

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