BroadwayWorld.com covers launch party for Bernadette Peters' new book, 'Broadway Barks'

From BroadwayWorld.com, where you'll find lots more launch party pictures of celebrities including Mary Tyler Moore, Angela Lansbury and Joel Grey:

On May 12th, 2008, Bernadette Peters hosted a launch party for her first book, "Broadway Barks". A long time advocate for pet adoption, Peters and fellow actress Mary Tyler Moore started the organization Broadway Barks! Each year they hold a star-studded dog and cat adopt-a-thon, benefiting New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies. The event is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and sponsored by the ASPCA. The book, authored by Peters, with illustrations by Liz Murphy, is published by Blue Apple Books and is the star's first foray into the publishing world. She did it at the prompting of friends and agreed to not only write the book, loosely based on how she adopted her dog Kramer, but also penned an original song, again at the prompting of both friends and her publisher, which comes on a CD inside the book along with her charming reading of the story...sound effects and all!

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

Broadway's Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters and Richard Jay-Alexander.

Director Richard Jay-Alexander of Miami Beach and Xanadu star Cheyenne Jackson.

To read Steve Rothaus' recent profile of Bernadette Peters, click here.