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CA-SPONSORED OUTINGS

Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available Wednesday, March 1 at 8 a.m.

Key to Outings who have loved it for 30 years.
We will stop for dinner on your own at The Domain prior to the
SCPL - Social Center Parking Lot show.
CCPL - Cowan Creek Parking Lot Ticket price includes transportation and orchestra seating.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Cheryl Jakubowski
Level 1 – Light Activity Bus trip over approx.
Level 2 – Moderate Activity 3 hours Life of Billie Holiday –
Level 3 – Active Activity Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill
Level 4 – Adventure Tour Overnight stay Zach Theater – Austin
Walking - Expect a
Meal provided walking tour or a large Dinner on your own – The Domain
venue Wednesday, Apr. 19, $91 pp
Requires climbing in Walking and steps Depart SCPL 4 p.m.; return 10:30 p.m.
and out of a boat
Bus is wheelchair Turn back the hands of time to 1959 where
accessible the stage has been set at a swanky nightclub
known as Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Order a
PERK Cards! cocktail and sit back in your chair for an
intimate evening with legendary jazz songstress, Miss Billie
Every time you travel on an outing Holiday. More than a dozen musical numbers including God
planned by the Lifestyle Department, Bless the Child and ’T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do are interlaced
you will receive a card to fill out and with salty, often humorous reminiscences that will give you a
turn in at the Monitor’s desk. We will riveting portrait of the lady and her music. Join us for a night of
draw a card monthly and the lucky rich jazz from the lady who sings the blues who’s got a life to sing.
winner will receive a 50% discount on a future CA bus outing of Our pre-show dinner stop will be at The Domain where you will
your choice! (Note: Excludes overnight outings). We will notify find a nice selection of upscale restaurants to choose from. Maps
the winner via phone and email. and menu ideas provided.
Ticket cost includes transportation and theater ticket.
Pat Rheel is our latest Perk Card winner. Congratula- Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather
tions, Pat!
Chris Botti Concert – Long Center - Austin
If you have any questions about our outings, please
contact Lifestyle & Activities, 512-948-7392. Dinner on your own – The Domain
Wednesday, Apr. 19, $68 pp
Greater Tuna – Long Center – Austin Depart SCPL 4:30 p.m.; return 10:30 p.m.

Dinner on your own – The Domain With his expressive sound and
Friday, Apr. 14, $93 pp soaring musical imagination, Grammy®-
Depart SCPL 4:30 p.m.; return 10:30 p.m. winning trumpeter Chris Botti has captured
the world’s attention with hit recordings
Greater Tuna is the hilarious including When I Fall in Love, To Love Again and his latest,
comedy about Texas’ third smallest town, where Impressions. Experience a night of warmly delivered Botti
the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline originals and beloved standards.
never dies. The eclectic band of citizens that Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental
artist, and his success has crossed over to audiences usually
SOLD OUTmake up this town are portrayed by only two performers, making reserved for pop music. Performing worldwide and selling
more than four million albums, he has found a form of creative
this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they expression that begins in jazz music and expands beyond the
depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna — men, women, children limits of any single genre.
and animals. Numerous awards have contributed to his fame, and Botti has
The show began as a simple party skit based on a political cartoon recorded and performed with the best in music, including Sting,
more than 25 years ago in Austin. Talented creators Joe Sears, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Bublé, Paul
Jaston Williams and Ed Howard were the imaginative authors
that parlayed the sketch into a critically acclaimed production Outings continued on the next page
entertaining audiences across the country ever since. Williams
now directs this all-new production which is sure to create a whole
new generation of Tuna fans, as well as attract the thousands

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