- As you can read in this story, the comedy musical All Shook Up has its last performance today at Ritter Park Amphitheater. The production by Huntington Outdoor Theatre begins at 8:30 p.m. The Twistin' in the '50s children's pre-show starts at 7 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $16 and $14 for 65 and older and children 5 to 12. Children under 5 are free.
- There's also in interesting story right here about the re-opening of a classic theater in Lexington. Here's an excerpt:
Two hundred people gathered at Lexington’s East Third Street and Elm Tree Lane for the long-delayed beginning of the Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center project.
The crowd included community leaders and city officials, some of whom had worked for 18 years to restore the Lyric, an icon of Lexington’s African-American community.
It also included many longtime Lexingtonians who have been waiting 46 years for their Lyric to reopen.
They’ll have another year to wait before the cavernous shell of a theater is rebuilt into a city-owned performing arts and community center.
After a 1987 fire damaged the Kentucky Theatre on Main Street and the city announced plans to restore it, Jefferson urged then-Mayor Scotty Baesler to appropriate $250,000 for the Lyric.
It was only fair, Jefferson said: “As a native Lexingtonian, I hadn’t had the right to go to the Kentucky Theatre because of segregation.”
But it would take years of struggle and legal disputes before Mayor Jim Newberry, the Urban County Council and a dedicated group of community activists would succeed in putting together the Lyric’s $9 million renovation and operating plan.
Many of those who came out remembered the Lyric as the place where black Lexingtonians came to see movies, vaudeville shows and jazz musicians from 1948 until the theater closed in 1963.
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