Hays Post

The Hays Community Theatre and Hays Arts Council will cosponsor a New Year’s Eve Celebration: The Good Old Days Again from 8 p.m. Dec. 31 to 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1.

The event will be in the newly remodeled HCT location at 121 E. Eighth St.

The evening will celebrate the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s with music, trivia and dancing.

Hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, as well as a dessert bar will be served. There will be a cash bar, and champagne toast and balloon drop at midnight. You must be 21 years old or older to attend.

Guests can snap pictures in a selfie booth, watch a live stream of the ball dropping in New York at 11 p.m. CST, as well as enjoy the performance from a magician.

“There will be an opporunity to sing and dance and basically get together and have a good time and also act as a fundraiser for the HCT and HAC,” Travis Grizzell, HCT volunteer, said.

Party goers are encouraged to dress in their favorite decade’s attire. However, costumes are not required.

Tickets are $50 each. Proceeds will benefit the HCT and HAC.

Tickets can be purchased in person at the Hays Arts Center, 112 E. 11th St. or online on the HCT website. A limited number of tickets are available. Tickets will be sold until Dec. 23 or until they are sold out.

Grizzell said the HAC and HCT had discussed this type of event before, but with HCT’s move to its new location in the former Eagle’s Lodge, it hadn’t seemed to be the right time.

“We finally got our new venue finished as far as the ADA bathrooms and other various things. We had a couple of wedding receptions and small things, but we are going to kick off the new year and the new venue with this,” he said.

Grizzell said if the party is successful this year, it might become an annual event.