With a little bit of luck
Is it time for some rain in Spain – on the plains? It will be when Theatre LHHS presents the classic “My Fair Lady” January 21-23 at the Lake Highlands High School Auditorium.
“There aren’t many plays that are more fun to see than this,” says Nancy Poynter, the high school’s drama director, who shares director duties for the play with Tim Johnson. “And I think the students really respect George Bernard Shaw.”
The musical, written by Lerner and Lowe and based on Shaw’s Pygmalian, tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, who bets a friend he can transform flower vendor Eliza Doolittle into a member of high society. John Kent plays the professor and Abbie Sparks is Eliza. The cast includes Reed Murray as Col. Pickering, Higgins’ friend; David Carl as Eliza’s father, Alfred; and Emily Boulden as Mrs. Pearce, the professor’s housekeeper.
The show features more than 80 students from the theater arts and choral music departments. The music director is Michael O’Hern and Brenda Parker is the choreographer.
Tickets are $6 in advance, $7 at the door, and $8 for reserved seats. Show time is 7:30 each night. For information or reservations, call 214-503-4670.
Tough talk
Marilyn Morris got pregnant in high school, so she knows exactly what happens afterward. That’s why she’ll share that knowledge with Lake Highlands High School parents and students when the school’s PTA presents “Teaching Choices and Consequences of Sex” on January 12.
“It’s a program that a lot of high schools and junior high schools are doing,” says Terri Heard of the PTA. “It’s important information that a lot of people – parents and students – need to know about.”
Morris is president of Aim for Success, which challenges teenagers to strive for excellence by developing self-control, self-respect, and self-discipline. She will discuss her abstinence-based philosophy to parents at 7 p.m. at the Lake Highlands Freshman Center.
Meanwhile, Aim for Success counselors will meet with students in smaller groups at 7 and 8 p.m. adjacent to the high school.
For information, call Heard at 214-349-4415.
A tisket, a tasket
Aunt Pittypat will bring her unique brand of story-telling and song singing to the Audelia Road Library, 10045 Audelia Road, on Jan. 23
Her performance, part of the library’s Saturday Library League, provides children ages 4 and up an opportunity to not only hear stories, but to sing and act along with the presentation. The program emphasizes role playing and movement.
“It’s very theatrical,” says Sherry Creighton, the children’s librarian at the library. “It’s another way to look at all of the old classic nursey rhyms and stories.”
The performance lasts from 2-2:30 p.m. For information, call the library at 214-670-1350.
Great adventures
Want a chance to hear what it’s like to be a secret service agent? Or to get a few pointers on accessing the Internet? How about brushing up on your French or Spanish?
Older adults will get an opportunity to do all of that – and more – when the Greater Lakewood Shepherd’s Center begins its weekly Adventures in Learning program on January 8 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 3204 Skillman.
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