A Second Chance

I can remember as a little girl going to the movies at the mall. As we stood in line for tickets I could smell the food coming out of the Chelsea St. Pub, it would make me soooo hungry and as we stood in line with our stomachs growling I would dance to the music coming from the club. I would beg my parents to spend the previews at the Chelsea St. Pub- but of course the answer was no because you had to be 21 to go inside.

As I got older I remember thinking only 8,7,6 more years till I can go inside to hear the music, it had absolutely nothing to do with going in and ordering alcohol, it was all about being able to step through that threshold, because I felt sure, that it would mean I was an adult.

Then with just four years to go Chelsea St. Pub closed when I was a junior in high school.

I turned 21 without the Chelsea St. Pub and while I've crossed many thresholds and listened to lots of bands, but it never really felt the way I thought it would. But now I've got another chance.

The owner of the Zone bought the name Chelsea St. Pub and got the lease to it's old location, so Chelsea St. Pub gets a second chance to make little kids wish they were older and I get a second chance to walk through threshold this weekend and listen to the band play.

Till next time-Courtnee

Summer Theatre

One of the great things about summer is that others have time to get creative (I say others, because this is my first summer not to have some sort of summer vacation- the pains of being a grown up :) ).

Abilene is practically bursting at the seems with talent all over summer plays are starting. Abilene's Community Theatre will soon open with a new show and tonight starts McMurry Theatre's Summer Shows.

The Fantasticks is a musical about, well, what else? A boy, a girl and their struggles to be together. While the scenario is classic, the troubles that come up are unique and handled in a fresh way.

From tonight until the 13th with a dinner being served at 7 and the show starting 8 and next week from the 18th through the 20th.

McMurry will also present a second theatre performance this summer when they do Sweeney Todd- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

This satirical musical is about a man who "never forget(s), never forgive(s)" and was recently made into a movie staring Johnny Depp.

The curtain will rise on Sweeney Todd July 23-25th, Aug. 1st and Aug. 6-8th.

Tickets for dinner and a show are $18 to $20 and tickets for just the show are ten dollars less.