Broadway vocalist Rachel Potter performs at Largo's Central Park Performing Arts Center homecoming gala

The Central Park Performing Arts Center marks its 30th anniversary with a fundraising gala featuring a hometown performer.

• •Vocalist and Broadway veteran Rachel Potter is performing tonight at the Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo for its "Back to Broadway" fundraising gala.
• •The event also marks the 30th anniversary of the Central Park facility, formerly known as the Largo Cultural Center.
• •Potter is a graduate of Seminole High School and sang with the Seminole High Singers in her youth.
• •Early in her career, she worked at Disney performing as Ariel in The Little Mermaid and as a universal swing playing roles in Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, and High School Musical.
• •Potter earned a degree in advertising and public relations from the University of Central Florida.
• •She performed in the national tour of Wicked as an ensemble member and Glinda understudy, and played Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family on Broadway for a full year.
• •She appeared in the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita, which closed in 2013 after 337 performances, and later competed on The X Factor.
• •After moving to Nashville, raising a family, and working as a real estate agent, Potter returned to music by recording an album of Broadway favorites and producing themed "Off Broadway" concert series.
• •Pinellas County government news briefs mentioned at the end of the article note that Pinellas is eyeing $101 million in flood protection projects and preparing storm aid for surviving businesses.