West Contra Costa's oldest community theater company is turning its theater into a nightclub for the day where you can "greet friends, sip champagne" and enjoy music by songsmiths such as Hoagy Carmichael, "Fats" Waller, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.
The evening includes complimentary champagne and appetizers served "before and after (but not during) the floor shows," along with free noisemakers, festive hats and "other accouterments of celebration."
The evening will be hosted by Masquers Managing Director Robert Love, with musical accompaniment by honorary the Rev. Dan Damon, Bob Gee and Dean Starnes, with floor shows set for 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Masquers floor show performers will include Anna Albanese, Arthur Atlas, Douglas Braak, Jan Brown, Peter Budinger & DC Scarpelli, Pamela Drummer-Williams, Bob Gee, Coley Grundman, Don Hansen, John Hull, Mary Kidwell, Gregg Klein, Laura Morgan, Joan Nelson, Shay Oglesby-Smith, Gil Stanfield, Dean Starnes, Jen Stark, Linda Woody-Wood and Vicki Zabarte. They will be joined by special guests at each of the floor shows.
Another New Year's Eve option is the annual party at the Pinole Senior Center, 2500 Charles Ave., which offers a full dinner, dancing to Nob Hill Sounds and a champagne toast at midnight for $45 per person, available in advance only. For details call 510-724-9800.
WEST COUNTY NOTES: A new citizenship class is starting at Valley Bible Church in Hercules, with enrollment opening Jan. 11, said Shawn Giese, outreach pastor at the church.
The class will meet weekly for 10 weeks at the church, 1477 Willow Ave., and instruction will cover preparation for the citizenship interview and 100 questions on the test. "'Take our class, you will pass' is our motto," Giese said.
The church is stepping up its community outreach, feeding more than 500 people at a barbecue in May, giving Thanksgiving baskets to more than 50 needy families and Christmas baskets to more than 80 families.
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