Larose Civic Center hosts ‘Broadway on the Bayou’

Bringing the Great White Way to the bayou, the first annual Broadway on the Bayou is set for Jan. 24 at the Larose Civic Center.

Sponsored by the Larose-Cut Off Middle School’s Give Kids the World Organization, the event features a silent auction and a dinner show with some of the best young entertainers from the Bayou Lafourche area.

“It gives us a good opportunity to have an event to dress up for, other than carnival,” said Francine Chouest, who is on the GKTW executive committee. “We don’t have that many dinner shows here.”

The performers are 13- to 18-year-old female students from Mark’s Vocal Studio. The two-hour show features three acts and 12-songs from various periods of Broadway musicals. Artists will sing such classics as “Cabaret,” “All That Jazz,” “No Business Like Show Business” and “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”

“This will be a good way to showcase the vocal talents of our local young people,” Chouest added. “The vocalists are just phenomenal.”

The evening begins at 5:15 p.m. with a silent auction and dinner. The show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Dinner show tickets are $30 each. Forty show-only, balcony-seating tickets are available for $10 each.

Proceeds from the event go to Give Kids the World Village, a non-profit resort that creates magical memories for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.

Throughout the school year, Larose-Cut Off Middle School students in the Give Kids the World Organization do community events. In May, the kids travel to Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee, Fla., to donate the money they raised.

Last year, the students donated over $71,000, according to Chouest. The school program has donated over $300,000 in the past nine years.

Playbills are $3. A table can be purchased for $250 and includes a free bottle of wine.

“We will have children from the organization that are going to be coached on the etiquette of serving a table,” Chouset said. “So I think it’s going to be nice on both ends.”

For more information, call Francine Chouest at (985) 691-1417, Andrea Breaux at (985) 860-9677 or Michelle Plaisance at (985) 691-3152.