Denver Center's WOMEN WITH HATTITUDE Tickets On Sale

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts' popular Women with Hattitude luncheon returns for Act Seven, Thursday May 3, at 11:30am in the Seawell Grand Ballroom. More than $20,000 will be raised to support the Women's Voices Fund at the Denver Center Theatre Company, which enables the company to commission and produce plays written by women. Tickets are now on sale at www.denvercenter.org/hattitude or by calling 303.446.4815.

More than 600 participants attending this annual benefit will enjoy a reading from one of the Denver Center's coveted women playwrights, Karen Zacarias who has been commissioned to adapt Helen Thorpe's novel, Just Like Us; musical selections from Denver Center Attractions' I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and the Denver Center Theatre Companys' Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash; and an impromptu fashion show of hats selected from among the attendees. Mariel will provide awards for the fashion show and Epicurean Catering will provide lunch. First Lady of Denver, Mary Louise Lee will make the welcoming remarks and Kelly Ford of KYGO will emcee the event. New this year, the grand-door-prize for online purchases is two roundtrip tickets on Southwest Airlines.

Women with Hattitude is generously sponsored by: State Farm, The Four Seasons Denver, Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons, and Margot and Allan Frank. This year's steering committee includes: Dana Berry, Lois Paul, Jada Roberts and Loretta Robinson.

Ticket committee members include: Victoria Ashby, Fiona Baldwin, Barbara Shannon Banister, Jill Behr, Denise Bellucci, Tamara Boyd, Janet Buckner, Cindi Burge, Jody Charmatz, Sharon Cooper, Linda Embree, Eve Roth Epstein, Terri Fisher, Adrienne Fitzgibbons, Layne Fleishman, Lawrence French, Sharon Whiton Gelt, Trisha Hood, Lorraine Hoover, Regina Jackson, JJ Jaggers, Lisa Daniel-Johnson, Lark Katchur, Susan Kiely, Allison Klein, Nancy Koontz, Radhika Mahanty, Carla McElroy, Judi McNeil, Claudia Miller, Lynette Morrison, Gayle Novak, Ann Padilla, Kathleen Perry, Kimberly Porter, Gayle Ray, Jackie Rotole, Lorraine Salazar, Felisha Scott, Rhetta Shead, Pam Smith, Jean Smooke, Denise Snyder, Ryta Sondergard, Susan Stiff, Linda Thornton, Patricia Villegas, Sandee Walling, Tina Walls, Faye Washington, Judi Wolf, Lynn Wong and Carla McElroy.

Denver Center Attractions presents I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, now playing the Garner Galleria Theatre, is the perfect date-night comedy for adults. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change opened to rave reviews on June 29, 2000 becoming Denver's longest running musical by 2005. Four actors take on the lives of more than 20 characters as they face the trials and tribulations of dealing with the opposite sex. Everything you've secretly wanted to know about dating, mating and marriage but were afraid to ask!

The Denver Center Theatre Company presents the musical revue Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash created by Richard Maltby, Jr. and conceived by William Meade, playing The Stage Theatre through May 13. Experience the music of the legendary Johnny Cash in this revue that uses more than three dozen of the singer's best-known songs to describe the journey of a man in search of his soul. Full of love and emotion, humor and empathy, the show– like all country songs– tells it like it is.

Tickets for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash are available at www.denvercenter.org or by calling 303.893.4100.

Tickets for the Women with Hattitude are $50 or $1,000 (includes a $550 tax-deductible contribution, a table of ten tickets and recognition). Women may choose to join Women with Hattitude Ticket Committee whereby volunteers commit to selling four tickets to the event. For information, please call 303.446.4815 or go to www.denvercenter.org/hattitude.