Lubbock entertainment in brief
LCT presents 'Little Shop of Horrors'
Lubbock Community Theater wraps up its production of "Little Shop of Horrors" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the LCT Proscenium, 3101 35th St.
The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” — after his coworker crush.
This foul-mouthed, R&B singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Seymour as long as he keeps feeding it — BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discover Audrey II’s out of this world origins and intent toward global domination.
Tickets for this show are $25 for adults and $20 for children (younger than 12), seniors and students (with ID), plus taxes and fees.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.lubbockcommunitytheatre.org
Alamo hosting 'Top Gun: Maverick' brunch
Do you feel the need? The need for brunch?
Join Alamo Drafthouse for a special brunch screening of "Top Gun: Maverick" at 11:10 a.m. Sunday, May 29.
Ride into the danger zone with Maverick and Iceman in this hotly anticipated sequel to the iconic ‘80s original. After more than 30 years of flying circles around the competition, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is back where it all began — "Top Gun." He’s been called back to lead a new generation of the Navy’s top 1%, including Goose’s son, call sign Rooster (Miles Teller).
Cruise and Val Kilmer are back and they’re still dangerous in director Joseph Kosinski’s "Top Gun: Maverick". Maverick and Iceman are backed up by a star-studded cast including Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, and Jon Hamm.
Tickets for this special event are $10 and available online in advance at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Movies 16 to show 'Smokey' for 45th anniversary
TCM Big Screen Classics Presents "Smokey and the Bandit 45th Anniversary" at 4 and 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 29, and again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, and Thursday, June 2 at Movies 16 Lubbock, 5721 58th St.
Starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field and Jerry Reed, "Smokey and the Bandit" delivers outrageous laughs in one of the biggest box-office hits of all time.
Bandit (Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker, takes on his craziest haul yet — delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Field).
This 45th anniversary event includes exclusive insights from Turner Classic Movies.
Tickets for this special screening are $12.45 and available online in advance at www.fathomevents.com
Shen Yun shares classical Chinese dance
Shen Yun 2022 comes to the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31.
Shen Yun's unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey. Featuring one of the world’s most ancient and richest dance systems — classical Chinese dance — along with dynamic animated backdrops and all-original orchestral works, Shen Yun opens a portal to a civilization of enchanting beauty and enlightening wisdom.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is a nonprofit organization based in New York. Its mission is to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese culture — with its deep spiritual roots and profoundly optimistic worldview — was displaced by communism in China. While Shen Yun cannot perform in China today, it is sharing this precious heritage with the world.
Tickets for this production range from $80 to $150 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com
Watercolor Society marks 60th anniversary
The West Texas Watercolor Society celebrates its 60th anniversary with the 2022 Spring Show at the Garden & Arts Center, 4215 University Ave., through May 31.
The West Texas Watercolor Society was organized in 1962 and granted a charter by the State of Texas on Nov. 13, 1979, for the purpose of promoting the highest aesthetic standards in the art of water media.
The West Texas Watercolor Society provides an opportunity for the interchange of ideas among persons interested in all form of water media. To promote the highest aesthetic standards in the art of watercolor and water media, and to provide civic, cultural, and educational support for the art of all water media.
For more information on the organization, visit wtws.org
Bandy to perform at Cactus
Legendary Texas Country traditionalist Moe Bandy is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 2, at the Cactus Theater.
Bandy has come a long way from his bull riding days in Texas. Not to mention his years as a sheet metal worker by day and playing honky tonks at night in and around his hometown of San Antonio.
Bandy's string of hits include "Bandy The Rodeo Clown," "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life," "Til I’m Too Old To Die Young," "Americana," "It's A Cheatin' Situation," "Just good Ol' Boys," "Barstool Mountain," "I Cheated Me Right Out of You," "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today," "Rodeo Romeo,""You Haven’t Heard the Last of Me," "Holding The Bag" and dozens of other chart-toppers.
He has had 10 No. 1 Hits, 40 Top Ten hits, 66 chart singles and 5 gold albums.
Tickets for the first four floor rows (rows A-D) are $40; remaining floor (rows E-M) are $35; standard balcony seats are $30; and limited balcony box seats are $70 (includes concessions).
For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.cactustheater.com
Cactus to host Michael Martin Murphey
Texas musician Michael Martin Murphey is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 3, at the Cactus Theater.
His musical journey has taken many unpredictable paths over the past 50 years. Topping the pop, country, western and bluegrass charts, Murphey has never been one to rest on his laurels.
A loyal American son from Texas, Murphey is best known for his chart-topping hits “Wildfire,” “Carolina In The Pines,” “What’s Forever For,” “Long Line of Love,” “Geronimo’s Cadillac”, “Cowboy Logic,” and many more across his 35 albums released to date.
For this show at the Cactus Theater, in addition to his greatest hits, concert-goers can expect to hear new music from Murphey, joined by very special guest, Ryan Murphey, as they showcase tunes from the forthcoming album “Road Beyond the View."
Tickets for the first 4 rows of floor seats (A-D) are $50; remainder of floor seats (Rows E-M) are $40; balcony seats are $30; and balcony box (includes concessions) are $75.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.cactustheater.com
Quitaque museum hosting Rendezvous
The Comanchero Canyons Museum, 200 S. Third St., Quitaque, is hosting a Comanchero Rendezvous from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 4.
There will be a hamburger lunch for $10 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The museum invites attendees to bring their own artifacts for identification by experts or comparison to the extensive lithic collection of Otho Stubbs.
Many new displays have been added or reworked since the last gathering, including the Red River War and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition’s cache of trade goods.
The museum also features an extensive display of remnants of unearthed fossilized creatures that lived here during the Ice Age, including strange elephants (mammoths), as well as, crocodiles (phytosaurus).
A popular outside activity at the homestead includes Cotton Elliott at the blacksmith forge creating souvenirs as people watch. Sam Montandon will set up his tipi as a kid-knapper, creating preforms and points from flint.
Each year the museum honors a person who has promoted the history of the area in special ways. This year they will remember O.R. Stark Jr., who passed away in 2000. Stark loved the Caprock region and promoted it through word and deed, his famous bank newsletters, and in the acquisition and support of Caprock Canyons State Park.
For more information, visit www.comancherocanyons.org
Alamo hosts 'To Wong Fu' brunch screening
Attitude is everything when Alamo Drafthouse hosts a brunch screening of "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar," at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 5.
Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Tickets for this special brunch screening are $10 and available online in advance at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Dance Gallery presents 'The Unknown'
The Dance Gallery presents The Unknown: Magic, Mystery and Love at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, and again at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 5, in the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
Celebrate Lubbock’s own The Dance Gallery, presenting its 41st major production.
Dance Gallery students will perform selected works.
Tickets are range from $15 to $30 (plus taxes & fees), depending on seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com
Alamo hosts 'Pitch Perfect' movie party
Are you ready to get Pitch slapped?
Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock is hosting a special "Pitch Perfect" movie party at 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 5.
Join us for an aca-awesome and totally interactive screening of "Pitch Perfect", where making music with your mouth isn't just encouraged, it's downright mandatory. Sing along to your favorite lady jams with the Barden Bellas and the Treblemakers because we're Dixie Chick-serious about loving this movie.
You want to be a Barden Bella? Well, there'll be a riff off in the theater, so prepare your musical skills. We'll also induct you with your very own Bella scarf and of course, a plastic cup so you can sing along to "When I'm Gone." It's going to be aca-mazing!
Tickets to this special screening are $15.15 and available online in advance at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Screening of 'Oz' marks Garland's 100th birthday
In celebration of what would have been Judy Garland’s 100th birthday, join fans across the county for a special showing of "The Wizard of Oz" featuring an exclusive deleted musical number.
This special screening is hosted by Movies 16, 5721 58th St., at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, June 5, and again at 3 and 7 p.m. on Monday, June 6.
Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land "somewhere over the rainbow." Dorothy's dream comes true when she, her dog Toto, and her family's house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world unlike anything she has seen before.
Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag's sister. Now, befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion — and protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers — Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home.
Tickets for this special screening are $12.45 and available online in advance at www.fathomevents.com
Celebrate 'The Golden Girls'
Celebrate "The Golden Girls" with a special screening of some of the most memorable episodes from the series.
This special screening is available at Movies 16 Lubbock, 5721 58th St., at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 7 and again on Tuesday, June 14.
Featured episodes include: The Competition, It’s a Miserable Life, The Sisters, Scared Straight, Sisters of the Bride, The Case of the Libertine Bell.
Tickets are $12.45 and available in advance online at www.fathomevents.com
Canadian Troubadour coming to Hub City
Corb Lund, the Canadian Troubadour, is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, at the Cactus Theater.
Lund has received multiple CCMA, Juno, and international award nominations and wins. A rural Albertan hailing from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Lund is about as authentic as they come.
Embracing his Western heritage and his indie rock past through his music, Lund has been known to filter a range of cowboy themes past and present through his unique lens.
Lund released his album "Agricultural Tragic" via New West Records on June 26, 2020, his first album of original songs in five years. The album debut inside the top 5 in both the US and Canada. It was named #7 on the No Depression Readers’ “50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020”.
Reserved floor and standard balcony seats are $18 in advance and $22 the day of the show. Balcony box seats (includes concessions) are $36 in advance and $44 the day of the show.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.cactustheater.com
Baby Shark Live! coming to Lubbock
Baby Shark Live! brings the 2022 Splash Tour to the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 8.
With the iconic songs and dances, fans of all ages will delight as Baby Shark joins up with his friend Pinkfong to take an adventure into the sea, singing and dancing through new and classic songs including Five Little Monkeys, Wheels on the Bus, Jungle Boogie, Monkey Banana and of course, Baby Shark.
Reserved seat tickets for this show range from $25 to $65 (plus taxes & fees), depending on seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com
Ballet Lubbock presents Contemporary West Dance
Ballet Lubbock presents Contemporary West Dance Theatre for a one-night performance of contemporary dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11, in the Crickets Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
The company has a dance methodology that integrates classical and modern paradigms with an athleticism that gives audiences a more profound dance experience. CWDT dancers are passionate, relatable and highly skilled and have been bringing virtuoso performances to the stage that have excited and inspired audiences around the world for over a decade.
Tickets for this production range from $30 to $45 (plus taxes and fees) depending on seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com
Moonlight Musicals kicks off season with 'Hairspray'
Moonlight Musical Lubbock kicks off its 17th year with the 2022 season whose theme is, “Tell Me A Story.”
The first production is "Hairspray" scheduled for June 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at the Moonlight Musicals Amphitheater, 413 E. Broadway. All shows start at 8 p.m.
The 1950s are out, and change is in the air. "Hairspray", winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
Tickets are $18 each, including fees. and are available for purchase at selectaseatlubbock.com or by going to moonlightmusicals.com
Clay Walker to perform at Cook's
Country singer Clay Walker will take the outdoor stage at Cook's Garage, 11002 Highway 87, on Friday, June 10 at 8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Texas native Walker was in his early 20s when he started rattling off a string of smash hits. Among them, “Live Until I Die,” “Dreaming With My Eyes Open,” “This Woman And This Man,” “Hypnotize The Moon,” “Rumor Has It,” “Then What,” “I Can’t Sleep” and “She Won’t Be Lonely Long.”
His self-titled debut album rocketed to platinum status, the first of four to cross the million-sold mark. He racked up more than 30 charted singles and 11 No. 1 hits.
The outdoor show will go on rain or shine and there is a clear back policy in place.
No outside food or drinks are allowed and there is no re-entry. A $10 minor upcharge at the door.
Advance general admission tickets are $45 (plus taxes and fees) and tickets the day of the show are $55 (plus taxes and fees). Tables of eight are available for $1,000 (plus taxes and fees) and include a special seated area.
For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.eventbrite.com or cooksgarage.us
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Lubbock entertainment in brief
