SAN FRANCISCO Singer and actress Julie Andrews will be in San Francisco tomorrow with composer Marvin Hamlisch for a fundraiser for stem cell research.

They'll have a supporting cast of Broadway performers for "Reach for Tomorrow, Research Today, which will raise money for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

The event begins with a black-tie dinner at San Francisco's City Hall. She'll also appear later in the evening at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

The 70-year-old Andrews is best known for her roles in "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins." She's appeared in recent years on the big screen in "The Princess Diaries."

Andrews has sung little since a 1997 throat operation that went wrong. Her four-octave voice was reduced to a few bass notes.

Her most recent project is a new book written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. It's their seventh collaboration. The new book is about a mouse-sized Broadway theater underneath a human-sized Broadway theater. All the mouse characters are named after famous characters in Broadway musicals.

Tickets for the dinner range from 15-hundred dollars to 10-thousand dollars.

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