Gulfshore Playhouse / Live Professional Theater / Naples, Florida

Proceeds to benefit Gulfshore Playhouse

6:00pm	Champagne will flow throughout the cocktail hour featuring gourmet hors d'oeuvres and piano music in the lounge
7:00pm	The evening will continue in the gala room. Food and drink will continue to be served while you enjoy an incredible evening of musical entertainment featuring two of Broadway's hottest stars, husband-and-wife duo Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell in their new Cabaret extravaganza "It Takes Two".
	During Intermission, there will be a short live auction and sale of vintage jewelry
8:45pm	Dessert and drinks with Alan and Lauren

Individually, they are respected, much admired and sought-after Broadway, theatre, recording, film and TV dependable-as-they-come working artists. The day they met, Lauren Kennedy was the fresh-faced North Carolina ingenue plucked out of Cincinnati Conservatory by Andrew Lloyd Webber to land in one of the most anticipated shows to come along in years. Alan Campbell was the suave, golden-voiced tenor from Florida, now making waves in New York and turning heads as the young male lead opposite Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard.

Whether it was love at first sight or first sound - the storybook happened and they've been making music, together and apart, as husband and wife almost ever since. It Takes Two is a delectable snippet of the relished, glorious time when they get to work together. And it's a range of musical content and styles as broad as their very impressive careers. (See more at www.goingbarefoot.com.)

A Presenter's Point of View

Married now for more than ten years, Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell might be called the "Steve-and-Eydie" of a new generation. When they're on stage with each other, it's nothing less than the ideal musical merger -- from giddy and light-hearted to powerful and poignant, from well-known hits from their Broadway musicals and pop-rock milestones to remarkably fresh, undiscovered gems from a whole new bounty of remarkable young composers & lyricists. It is songs you haven't heard in years - and songs you haven't heard at all... Songs you'd never expect them to sing - and songs you were desperately hoping to hear.
"It Takes Two" is an evening of perfectly-tuned, consummately entertaining, smooth-as-satin show biz panache -- plopped smack-dab in the middle of a platter of real life. It's diapers, left-over pizza, who's taking care of the little one, does-this-dress-make-me-look-fat, can-you-just-shut-up-and-sing wonderful. When they're doing "Give Me the Simple Life" and you see those family pics interspersed with their Broadway glamour shots, you can well imagine just how "simple" it must be to juggle all that's going on with this couple... Simple? Maybe not. Living life to the fullest, loving each other and happy to be on stage together? You bet! And it's as much fun as chocolate and champagne, iced tea and pimento cheese.

Lauren Kennedy roles have included Lady of the Lake in Broadway's Spamalot, Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, Daisy Hilton in Side Show, and the final Fantine in the history-making run of Les Miserables.... as Nellie Forbush in Trevor Nunn's masterful London production of South Pacific, as Cinderella at New York City Opera, and star of premieres including White Christmas, The Last Five Years, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Vanities, Good Ol Girls, and The Ten Commandments with Val Kilmer at L.A.'s Kodak Theatre.

Alan Campbell originated the role of Joe Gillis in his Tony-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard and starred in Susan Stroman's Tony Award-winning Contact at Lincoln Center. Principal credits also include productions or tours of Lanford Wilson's Book of Days, 12 Angry Men, Beauty and the Beast, Bells Are Ringing; film roles in Simple Wish and Tom, Dick and Harry; five seasons on TV's Jake & the Fatman with Bill Conrad, with John Ritter on Three's a Crowd, as Evan Grant on Another World and as Dr. Ellis Marshall on All My Children, with guest roles on network mainstays including Law and Order & Law and Order SVU, Homicide, Facts of Life and Matlock. Gulfshore Playhouse audiences may remember Alan from "Oleanna" and "Doubt", but did you know he could sing? And wait until you hear Lauren Kennedy. The treat of a lifetime!

Audiences will enjoy an eclectic mix of styles from rock 'n roll to Broadway showstoppers with such great tunes as "Mack the Knife", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "Stand By Me", and from musicals such as "Les Mis", "Sunset Boulevard" and "Wicked". You'll be sure to have your toes tappin' throughout and leave humming a happy tune!

"Alan Campbell is a charismatic golden boy with a voice to match."
-The Wall Street Journal

"Kennedy gives a star making performance. Her singing rings out as clear as a fingernail flick on a crystal champagne glass. Intoxicating..."
-New Jersey Star Ledger

"This couple's combined Broadway experience translates into bang-up, class-A entertainment."
- News And Observer