Hit play about Amon Carter ushers LIVE THEATER back to North Texas!
KELLER, Texas – The hit play about Amon G. Carter Sr. that has excited audiences ends its hiatus with a late June return performance.
The Greater Keller Women’s Club Foundation, in partnership with The Bowden events center, is hosting a special “social distancing” dinner and evening with Mr. Carter.
The play about one of Texas’ most magnificent promoters continues its successful run at The Bowden on Friday, June 26, 2020. AMON! The Ultimate Texan is about Fort Worth’s founding father. Actor Kelvin Dilks is featured as Amon in the comedic one-man play.
The play has received six nominations for area theater awards, including Best New Play, Best Director and Best Actor.
Ticket includes dinner. Patrons are asked to buy a table of six so they can control who sits at their table for health reasons. No individual tickets are sold. Repeat: tickets can only be sold as a table for six. Each ticket costs $75; a table costs $450. Note that seating is limited because of table spacing.
Tickets are on sale exclusively online here.
Amon Carter, who taught that a true Texan lives with your community, not off it, was a media tycoon unlike most. He ruled his town for a 50-year run.
His holdings included the local newspaper, the Star-Telegram, as well as the region’s largest radio station (WBAP-AM) and the first TV station in the Southwest, now KXAS/NBC5.
But Carter didn’t put himself first. He cared about Fort Worth and West Texas, and spent his life working to make both better. Carter is credited with luring a trillion dollars’ worth of business to Texas.
Playwright Dave Lieber says, “He was our Alexander Hamilton, our most consequential figure who’s been forgotten. No other community has an Amon Carter.”
Lieber added, “The play is a point of pride for Texans. And it’ll change the way you think about Texas.”
Actor Kelvin Dilks taught in the Birdville School District for over 30 years before retiring to run for the district’s school board, where he has served four. years. The play is directed by Connie Sanchez, another longtime Birdville teacher.
Tickets are on sale exclusively online here.
AMON! The Ultimate Texan, written by Dave Lieber, is produced by Artisan Productions, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to providing family-friendly entertainment.
READ MORE ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL PLAY
What the press says about AMON!
What audience members say about AMON!
Meet the director, Connie Sanchez
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Actor Kelvin Dilks
