Archive: theater

Paramount Theater Abilene, Texas

Posted on: Jul 3, 2014        In: Out and About        With: No comments
For ever and a day – years and years – as long as I have known her (and that is a long time) -Friend BB has raved about the Paramount Theatre in downtown Abilene.  Some days when Friend BB’s was a little girl, her father would take her into the city to see a movie […]

Honk – Hot Rod the Villain

Posted on: Aug 23, 2013        In: Life and Love        With: No comments
Hot Rod attended Theater Camp at Pearce High School this week and was part of the production of Honk.  Basically, Honk is a musical version of the Ugly Duckling.  The children had five days of Theater Camp, and then it was show time.  What they accomplished in five days was amazing. The pictures are not […]

Summer Sizzle with “A Taste of Old Time Music Hall”

Posted on: Aug 8, 2013        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Facts: The old courthouse in the middle of the square in McKinney, Texas is now a Preforming Arts Center.  In the room that was once the courtroom, there is now a stage that is used to entertain the masses. This theater is also home to a 1927 Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ. This was the type […]

Theater Camp

Posted on: Aug 20, 2012        In: Life and Love        With: No comments
Grandson Hot Rot attended Theater Camp at J. J. Pearce High School recently.  Can you imagine over seventy kids  (4th – 9th graders) working together for one week to produce a show?  Sweet Mother of Pearl.  It gives me a headache just to think about it.  I do not know who I feel sorrier for […]

Oh What a Day and Night – Jersey Boys and Screen Door Restaurant

Posted on: Jun 18, 2012        In: Out and About        With: No comments
Oh, What a Day and Night! Sometime ago, Betty and Robert called to ask if we would like to get tickets with them for Jersey Boys.  Yes, yes, yes!  Then we decided to make reservations for an after “the theatre” supper/dinner at Screen Door.  Life is good. I’ve been looking forward to this for a […]