Billed as “A Valentine Evening of Earthly Delights,” a benefit for the Betty Welsbacher Leadership Foundation, will feature Wichita’s Vagabond Players in the premier performance of “Two Bites: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve.”

For the two-evening event, doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, at Wichita’s elegant Grand Chapel, 828 N. Broadway. Tickets are $30 each.

Festivities begin at 7 p.m. with Garden of Eden hors d’oeuvres (vegan included), a cash bar and a silent auction. The play will start at 8 p.m.

Betty Welsbacher was responsible for creating and directing Wichita State’s special music education program. After retirement, she remained active in the arts and in the church she had joined in 1958, First Unitarian Universalist. She received the Governor's Arts Education award in 2006.

The Betty Welsbacher Leadership Fund underwrites tuition fees for First Unitarian Universalist lay leadership training. Welsbacher had served as its president, choir director, children's choir director and in other capacities.

“Two Bites: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve” stars Welsbacher’s husband, Richard, professor emeritus of WSU theatre; Ed Baker, a WSU assistant professor and technical theater director; and Liz Willis Henry, a WSU theatre alumna. The show is directed by Vagabond founder Jean Ann Cusick.

For information and tickets, go to www.firstuu.net, or contact office@firstuu.net or (316) 684-3481.