By By KEVIN SCOTT CUTLER
Lifestyles & Features Editor
Lawyers, garden-club members, doctors, firefighters, law-enforcement officers and bankers are among those who will be tapping their toes and showing off their dance skills during this year’s Dancing With OUR Stars fundraiser for Eagle’s Wings.
The third-annual event, presented by Eagles’s Wings and Le Moulin Rouge de Danse, will be held Aug. 21 in the Washington High School Performing Arts Center.
Two performances are scheduled that day: a dress rehearsal at 5 p.m. and the grand finale show at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $10 to $50; for more information about the show, visit www.dancefordonations.com or call Shannon Reising at 252-975-1138.
All ticket sales and team donations raised during the event will be donated to Eagle’s Wings, a United Way agency that addresses immediate hunger needs of the impoverished and homeless in Beaufort County.
The 2010 Dancing With OUR Stars cast, according to information provided to the Daily News, includes:
• The Moulin Rouge Adorables — Hope Jankowski, Elizabeth Manning, Gracie Landeck, Sabrina Stoddard, Caroline Briley, Olivia Briley, Olivia Paszt, Taylor Chase and Kylie Bowden;
• Moulin Rouge’s Rhythm Nation — Amber Shagena, Jodie Rouse, Kirsten Shackelford, Karlee Fottler, Robyn Carraway, Shelby Nall, Elizabeth Tanner, Krista Norris, Kaitlyn Hartley, Ashleigh Singleton, Samara Romero, Kaitlyn Corey, Hannah Sandy, Marica Timour, Brigette Thomas, Dina Nobles and Janet Cox;
• Committee of 100 — Arthur Williams, Roger Tuttle, Bill Zachman, Mitch St. Clair, Tom Atkins, John Weeks, Bobby Clark, Rocky Jacobs, Pat Mansfield, Tom Richter, Dick Barber, Yates Spruill, Tom Thompson, John Tate, Chip Ide and Wanda Kay;
• Cypress Landing Rockettes — Virginia Jenks, Beate Collins, Judy Peede, Lisa Clark and Pam Nuckols;
• Deplorable Folly Players — Riley Simpson, Raven Simpson, Jonathan Clayborne and Crystal Holman;
• Pine Needles Garden Club/Ten Tulips and a Weed — Katherine Tate, Karin Morrison, Paige Harris, Crystal Hardt, Sandy Johnson, Bernice Poteet, Martie Gahagan and Mary Lovenberg, with special guest Keith Hardt, director of Washington Electric Utilities;
• Beaufort County Lawyers — Seth Edwards, Sonia Privette, Watsi Sutton, Jonathan Jones, Alice Espenshade, Melissa Pressley and Amber Cronk;
• Doctors/Mad Quack Fever — Melissa Beretich, Richard Young, Fred Teixeira, Nisha Mehta, Dennis O’Neal, Ken Nall and John Inzerillo;
• Fitness Unlimited aTONEment — Randy Moore, Lowell Taylor, Edwin Castro, Tara Carter, Lilly Jones, Susan Askren, Carrie Davis, Tara Newman, Jane Rouse, Robin Clarke and Christina Jackson.
Also on the playbill are members of the Washington Fire-Rescue-EMS Department, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, downtown Washington merchants, Washington Police Department, local bankers and representatives of Beaufort County Community College. Cast lists for those groups were not provided in time to meet deadlines.
Dancers and choreographers helping the novices prepare for their stage debuts include Wanda Thompson, Shannon Reising, Janet Cox, Kendra Lobos, Tabitha Oliver, Caroline Phillips, Melissa Smith, Mila Arnold, Melissa Nelson, Shelley Genter, Gayle Watson-Roper, Kiki Hampton, Sean Nathan, Laurie Weston, Jeremy Watson and Susan Sizemore.
For more information about the Eagle’s Wings ministry, visit www.eagles-wings.org.