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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'><img width=447 height=89 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b><br><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'>WEEK OF FRIDAY, <span style='color:red'>DEC. 27th </span><span style='color:black'>thru</span> THURSDAY, <span style='color:red'>JAN. 2nd </span><span style='color:black'>ONLY!!</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>Check out our website at: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.TheAvon.com">www.TheAvon.com</a></span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red'>NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE <br>ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR THIS NEWSLETTER!!</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif";color:red'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#002060;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Trouble Seeing the Pictures in the Newsletter??<br>Make sure your email browser is set to “html”, not “text only”.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:maroon'><br> </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAvonTheatre"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=149 height=45 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:maroon'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>CLICK ABOVE TO GO TO OUR VITAL FACEBOOK PAGE!!<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'>NOTE: EXTENDED HOLIDAY SHOWTIMES!!<br>STUDY THE TIMES <u><span style='color:red'>VERY</span></u> CAREFULLY!!</span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>OUR “QUICK LOOK” SHOWTIMES<br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=345 height=459 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image012.png@01D5BC17.608BC4E0" alt=SPIES2times.PNG></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><span style='color:black'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>THIS IS THE BIG ONE!!</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=293 height=433 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="star_wars_the_rise_of_skywalker_ver4.JPG"></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><u>STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker</u> (PG13)<br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2C32'>No one's ever really gone... Rey's journey continues and the Skywalker saga concludes in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, coming December 2019.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> <br></span><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG13)<br>FRI & SAT: (12:00) – (3:30) – 7:15<br>SUN: (12:00) – (3:30)<br>MON: 7:15<br>TUES: (12:00) – (3:30) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#00B050'>(Close Early for New Year’s Eve)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>WED: (12:00) – (3:30) – 7:15 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(New Year’s Day)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>THURS: (12:00) – (3:30) – 7:15 <br>+++++++++++++++++++++++<br>THE BROADWAY SMASH FINALLY ON THE SCREEN!!<br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=285 height=450 id="Picture_x0020_16" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="cats_ver2.JPG"></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><u>CATS</u> (PG)<br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2C32'>Universal Pictures and Working Title's Cats is a most-unexpected film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved smash musical "Cats" and the poems from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," by T.S. Eliot. Oscar (R)-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl) brings astonishing new technology to transform his cast members. Acclaimed casting director Lucy Bevan is casting the film adaptation. The epic will be produced by Hooper and Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, as well as fellow Les Misérables producer Debra Hayward-who brought the idea to Working Title. CATS will be produced by Working Title Films in association with Monumental Pictures and The Really Useful Group and executive produced by three-time Oscar (R) winner Steven Spielberg, Lloyd Webber and Angela Morrison. Hooper and Lee Hall (Billy Elliott, War Horse) have adapted the story for the screen. One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, "Cats" received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981-where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances.<br></span><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>CATS</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG)<br>FRI & SAT: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00<br>SUN: (1:00) – (4:00)<br>MON: 6:30<br>TUES: (1:00) – (4:00) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#00B050'>(Close Early for New Year’s Eve)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>WED: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(New Year’s Day)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>THURS: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00 <br>+++++++++++++++++++++++<span style='color:red'><br></span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!!</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=275 height=407 id="Picture_x0020_17" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="spies_in_disguise_ver3.JPG"></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>SPIES IN DISGUISE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2C32'>Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is...not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo is forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise - transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic...pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a team, or the whole world is in peril.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> </span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>SPIES IN DISGUISE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>FRI & SAT: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00<br>SUN: (1:00) – (4:00)<br>MON: 6:30<br>TUES: (1:00) – (4:00) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#00B050'>(Close Early for New Year’s Eve)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>WED: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(New Year’s Day)</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>THURS: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00 <br>+++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=42 height=58 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="Skippy 2nd Grade.bmp"><img border=0 width=51 height=57 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt=SKIPPY2016.JPG></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Skippy Huston<b><u><br></u></b></span><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO<br></span></u></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b><img border=0 width=397 height=298 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D5BC19.C804F4F0" alt=HAPPYNY.JPG></b><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><b>Folks, it looks I will be discontinuing the newsletter after this issue, or very soon after.<br>It’s just so much work to put it out, and I’m not sure how many are still actually reading it.<br>It doesn’t mean you won’t hear from me from time to time, but it does mean there will be no weekly issue.<br>I’m keeping the database intact, and I will send a ‘special’ out for certain things, you can count on that.<br><br><i>HOWEVER</i>, our FaceBook page continues to be one of the strongest in the city, with almost 12,000 followers. There is more info on our FaceBook page than the newsletter, including special sales and other events not listed elsewhere. I update the FaceBook page a few times a day, at minimum, and will continue to do so. If you are not a member of FaceBook, that is ok, just go to <a href="http://www.FaceBook.com">www.FaceBook.com</a> <u>and search for The Avon Theater</u>. You should be able to see everything. The only drawback about not being a member is you can’t personally post anything, but you can sure get tons of info!<br><br>I’m having heart surgery in February, and I will be laid up for about a month.<br>I’m so blessed to have my wife, Susan, and long-term staffers like our General Manager, Ashley Petty, and her two assistants Hannah Elliott and Bridget Spitzer to carry the extra load while I am recuperating. Between those four, and my daughter and her family—(<i>and a dedicated “Popcorn Staff”</i>) it should all come off as seamless.<br>Many of the Front Office duties I do now from my home office can still be done by me, I just won’t be out-and-about and around the theater for awhile.<br>The longest I’ve ever been away from the old Avon in almost 21 years, is about 6 or 7 days when I had hernia surgery about 13 years ago. To think about being away from “my baby” for a month, is not a pleasant prospect!<br>But, as I often say: “<i>In order to get through it, you have to get to it!</i>” <br>This heart surgery is vital, and I’m not looking forward to it, but it must be done so I can keep on popping!<br><br>God willing, all will go well, and I’ll be back at the theater in no time.<br>(And this isn’t until February, so I’m still around through January)<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>The <span style='color:red'>ORIGINAL</span> $5.00 TUESDAY!!<br><img border=0 width=338 height=102 id="Picture_x0020_15" src="cid:image010.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt=tightwad.JPG><br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<span style='color:#7030A0'><br></span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>T<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>he Avon Theater has been YOUR locally owned, family-operated 'hometown theater' for almost 103 Years!!</span></em><br></span></b><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-style:normal'>As of April, 2019, we started our 21<sup>st</sup> year!</span></b></em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'><img border=0 width=48 height=56 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D5B8EE.F155D8C0" alt="cid:image008.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></i></b><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'>-</span></em><em><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:black'> </span></em><em><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'>Skip Huston</span></b></em><b><i><span style='font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'><br></span></i></b><em><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black;font-style:normal'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></b></em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>