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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
      • 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!

Become one of our first 100 donors, and receive a commemorative matted, framed, “painting by light” photograph of the Athens Theatre!

Donate $100 for 100 Years!