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EVENTS
Purchase your tickets for CA-Sponsored Events at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for activities listed for the first time will be available Monday, Oct. 3 at 8 a.m.
Sun City Live! Auditions for There have been numerous revivals on Broadway in New York
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - NEW! and London. Directed by David Lovelace.
Auditions: *Please note new matinee time!
Friday, Oct. 14, 1-3 p.m., CCG
Saturday, Oct 15, 10 a.m. to noon, ACA 20th Anniversary
Friday, Oct. 21, 1-3 p.m., CCG Free Outdoor Concert
Do you love the holidays? Join our talented group to perform in Wednesday, Oct. 19, 6 p.m., Amphitheater, Free
our second holiday show, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
which will take place Saturday, Nov. 26. We are searching for The members of Reunion Band bring enjoyment
all types of acts to celebrate the holidays. If you can sing, dance, to every performance. The band, comprised of
tell funny stories, perform magic, be in a fashion show, play an a horn and rhythm section with male and
instrument or recite a poem, we want you! female lead singers, make regular appearances
at Austin’s top clubs, including the Warehouse
Bring your CD if you are a singer. District’s Cedar Street Courtyard and Lake Travis hotspot The
Oasis. By mixing classic rock, Motown, hard-core funk, ’70s
AcTAG Once Upon a Time, disco, and timeless ballads, this group is a treat!
20th Anniversary Celebration - NEW!
Special thanks to our 20th Anniversary sponsors Del Webb,
Monday, Oct. 17, 2:45-4 p.m., SCB Suddenlink Communications and Goodwater Wealth Manage-
ment Group of Raymond James for thier support of the com-
The Actors and Theater Arts Guild extends munity and our anniversary celebrations.
an invitation to all of Sun City to the Once
Upon a Time Celebration of this active club. Movie: Now You See Me:
The Second Act
Once upon a time, shortly after Sun City Texas
opened some 20 years ago, a group of aspiring Rated PG-13, 2 hours, 9 minutes
residents with a love of the theater came together to form what Wednesday, Oct. 26, 6 p.m., SCB, $5 pp
is now known as AcTAG. Since that time they have entertained *Reserved Seating by Table
Sun City and the Georgetown community each year with at least
three plays plus an annual Follies. After fleeing from a stage show, the illusionists
(Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson) known
At this celebration, a few members and past members will share as the Four Horsemen find themselves in more
memories as well as a slide show showcasing the plays and follies trouble in Macau, China. Devious tech wizard
of the past 20 years. Refreshments will be available. Everyone Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) forces the
is invited and we especially encourage past AcTAG members to infamous magicians to steal a powerful chip that can control
attend. The celebration will be short, so please arrive on time. all of the world’s computers. Meanwhile, vengeful FBI agent
Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) hatches his own plot against
Blithe Spirit Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), the man he blames for
the death of his father.
Monday, Oct. 17 – Saturday, Oct. 22, SCB
Cabaret Seating: October 17, 18, 21, 22, 7 p.m., $14 Movie: Free State of Jones
Theater Seating: October 19, 7 p.m., $12
*Matinee: October 20, 3 p.m., $12 Rated R, 139 minutes, action/adventure/drama
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 6 p.m., SCB, $5 pp
Blithe Spirit is a comic, award winning play *Reserved Seating by Table
by Noël Coward that concerns the socialite
and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites After surviving the 1863 Battle of Corinth
the eccentric, clairvoyant medium Madame during the Civil War, a less fortunate farmer,
Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping Newton Knight from Mississippi is tasked to
to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when, lead a group of Jones County rebels against
after the séance, he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and the Confederate army. Newton marries former
temperamental first wife, Elvira. Elvira makes continual slave, Rachel, and is credited as establishing the region’s first
attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, mixed-race environment. Knight continued his fight after the
who cannot see or hear the ghost. war period, combating the Klan through Reconstruction. His
legendary rebellion sets him apart as Newt Knight, a man with
This play was a smash on and off Broadway starting in 1941 a compelling and controversial journey.
and was also adapted for film in 1945 starring Rex Harrison.
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