Veteran comedians, Jan McInnis and Kent Rader, have joined forces to develop “The Baby Boomer Comedy Show.” This 90-minute theater event is filled with clean, G-Rated humor on topics the Boomer Generation can relate to – family, kids, work, do-it-yourself projects, dieting, aging, grandchildren and is perfect for all the boomers in your life – including you!
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Texana Play Opens at HCPAC
Henderson County Performing Arts Center press release
It’s 1962 in Bradleyville, Texas – population 6,000 – a small, dead West Texas town in the middle of a big, dead West Texas prairie between Abilene and San Angelo. The new highway has bypassed it and now the world is trying to as well.
The regular meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia is about to begin and it’s going to be an auspicious one, at that. For the first time in a very long time, the Lodge has a new member to induct. The current members are excited but also a little leery of bringing a stranger into the inner sanctum of the club. And it’s been so long since any of them have participated in the ceremony, most of them have forgotten just exactly how it’s supposed to go.
Performing Arts Center presents ‘The Baby Boomer Comedy Show’
The Henderson County Performing Arts Center will present “The Baby Boomer Comedy Show” starring Jan McInnis and Kent Rader Friday, March 18, at the Athens Country Club.
Doors open at 6 p.m., dinner is served at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8.
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Henderson County Performing Arts Center celebrates great year with ALTY awards
By T. Gordon Mayhall/Eye On the County
The Henderson County Performing Arts Center held the ALTYs Monday night, its equivalent of the Tony’s, and boy what a show. It wasn’t too flashy, even with 35-50 actors in one building, but we definitely took our turns loosening up the audience as all of the awards were handed out. It couldn’t have been a more fun time.
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Athens High School choir program spreads the joy of music
Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Specialist
Bridget Scott was born to be a music teacher. The daughter of music teachers and a gifted singer and musician herself, Scott spent years educating fourth- and fifth-grade students at Athens ISD about the beauty and possibilities of music.
“My main job was to get them excited about it,” she said. Then two years ago, Scott took over the program at Athens High School and began to work with some of the very same students she had taught as youngsters. “The seniors who graduated last year were the first class of fifth-graders I had taught.”
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