Some 48 hours after being presented with the Screen Actors' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles, stage and screen icon Julie Andrews stepped onto the stage of the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City to kick off Kids' Night on Broadway at the
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. "You young kids are our future and our inspiration," Andrews told the crowd at the January 30 performance. The
Mary Poppins Oscar winner, who is also a best-selling author of 17 children's books, was accompanied by her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, who has co-authored many of those books with her mom. (It was a busy week for Ms. A., who was awarded
Child magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award the following evening and signed copies of her most recent book, the theater-themed
The Great American Mousical, at Books of Wonder.) During the audience participation portion at the
Bee