Pick a character. Any character.

Elphaba. Roxie Hart. Jean Valjean. One of the cats. Whoever you land on, put on the costume and come spend an evening with us.

The Broadway Dance Party is the Arts Hub's fundraiser this year, and the pitch is simple. Three hours, a room full of theater people, and music from Tier Two Entertainment that's built for dancing rather than polite listening. You don't have to be a good dancer. You have to be willing to dance, which is a different thing, and a much easier one.

What the night looks like

Doors open at five. There's food, and it's included with your ticket, so come hungry and don't eat first. There's a dance floor that will not stay empty for long. And there's a prize for best costume, which we expect will bring out a competitive streak in a few people who claim not to have one.

There's a silent auction we'd encourage you to browse early and bid on often. A wine pull, where twenty-five dollars gets you a mystery bottle and a small thrill. And for the kids, a golden ticket pull: five dollars for a chocolate bar, a few of which win a prize.

None of it requires you to be good at anything. It just requires you to show up in costume and say yes a few times over the course of an evening.

Where the money goes

All of it to the Arts Hub. Every ticket, every bottle and bar and auction bid goes back into the work we do: our productions, our classes, our scholarship students, and the ordinary, unglamorous, surprisingly expensive business of keeping a theater's lights on.

We're a community theater and we run on nights like this one. When you buy a ticket, you're not just getting dinner and a dance floor. You're keeping a place alive where a kid who auditioned in a whisper ends up singing to a full house.