It is used primarily for opera and large ballet productions by two resident companies: the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera.
The Brown Theater, with 2,405 seats, is named for donors Alice and George Brown. Additionally, the Cullen Foundation contributed $7.5 million, and the Brown Foundation gave $6 million to the building fund. In spite of the banking and oil recession of the late 1980s, more than 3,500 donors committed funds for the new facility in a major community effort, with nearly 2,200 individuals donating $100 or less to the capital campaign. The Wortham Foundation contributed $20 million to the construction of the new Theater Center, which was named after Wortham. Significant Private Funding Ī significant portion of the funding needed to build the center came from the estate of the late Gus Wortham (1891–1976), a local philanthropist and founder of American General Insurance Company. In 2017 it was damaged by Hurricane Harvey it reopened in September 2018. The Knee Plays, written by Robert Wilson and lead singer David Byrne of The Talking Heads, was presented by the Society for the Performing Arts in the Cullen Theater. The inaugural performance, Tango Argentino, was performed in the Brown Theatre. Prior to administering the test to your school champion, you must first register your school champion by logging into and selecting School Champion Registration from the left menu.įor additional information about the online spelling bee, please contact Maricela Maldonado, would like to thank all the spelling bee campus coordinators, judges, Judson High School, and the Technology Department for all their hard work to help make our Spelling Bee a great success! Your effort and time do not go unnoticed.Ĭlick here for additional spelling bee pictures.The Wortham Theater Center officially launched on May 9, 1987. 
To administer the test log into and select Online Test from the left-side menu.
In the end, Aiden Sanchez, a 5th grader from Spring Meadows, was our District Spelling Bee Champion! Our second-place champion was Yael Arenas, a fourth-grader from Wortham Oaks Elementary.Īll our campus spelling bee champions will have another opportunity to demonstrate their awesome spelling skills by participating in the 2020 San Antonio Regional Spelling Bee online test. There is plenty to BUZZ about the district spelling bee! We are so proud of all our campus bee champions who did such a great job.
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