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Sunday, January 9
The Athens Theatre, in partnership with Advent Health DeLand, invite you and your whole family to a community celebration as we wind the clocks back to 1922 and celebrate the Athens Theatre’s 100th Birthday!
Athens Theatre 100th Anniversary Celebration
What will the party entail?
- Outside on Indiana Ave and N. Florida Ave. in front of the Athens Theatre
- 1-4 p.m.
- Cost – FREE!
- Live entertainment from “The Ramblers” (An Orlando-based 13-piece band that specializes in jazz/swing music from the 1920s)
- Vaudeville Street performances by Phantasmagoria
- Contests:
- Don your duds and dress in your 1920’s/flapper outfits to be entered in a costume contest
- Winner will receive complimentary box seats (10 tickets) to see Ragtime! (A value of $375!)
- Shake a leg, and join a Charleston Dance-Off Competition
- The last dancer standing will win 4 complimentary tickets to the Athens Theatre Production of their choice. (Remaining shows this season include Shrek TYA, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and Ragtime
- Don your duds and dress in your 1920’s/flapper outfits to be entered in a costume contest
- Refreshments:
- Cash Food & Beverage Stations will be available
- Speakers:
- Joey Maxwell, Board President
- Rene Sands, Sands Theatre Center, Inc. Founder
- Mayor Bob Apgar
- 4-5 p.m. – Now Outside on Indiana Ave and N. Florida Ave., as well!
- What are you in for?
- ALL DIAMONDS: An Evening with some of our Brightest & Finest
- Numerous stars from the Athens’s stage and our Youth Academy will bring back to life characters and songs from shows over the past 10 years. (Featuring numbers from shows like: Grease, The Little Mermaid, Momma Mia, Les Misérables, 9 to 5 the Musical, Always Patsy Cline, Singin’ In the Rain, Chicago, and more!
- ALL DIAMONDS: An Evening with some of our Brightest & Finest
- What are you in for?
- 1-4 p.m.
Become one of our first 100 donors, and receive a commemorative matted, framed, “painting by light” photograph of the Athens Theatre!