Birthday for Barbara Barbara Hubbard, the Grand Lady of the Pan American Center’S Musical Legacy, Celebrates a Milestone with a Few Close Friends
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NEWS Local news and entertainment since 1969 BUSINESS The showrooms of Valley Drive Virgin Galactic page 54 shoots for the stars FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 I Volume 49, Number 29 I lascrucesbulletin.com page 22 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Birthday for Barbara Barbara Hubbard, the grand lady of the Pan American Center’s musical legacy, celebrates a milestone with a few close friends. For more on the evening, see page 24. Weathersbee’s transparent canvas page 41 SPORTS Pitching ‘shoes’ against Father Time Bulletin photo by Richard Coltharp page 64 For all A convenient walk-in center for your of life’s non-emergency illness and injuries. 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July 21, 2017 LC3-LV40282 Visit our award-winning website at www.donaanacounty.org, or contact us at (575) 647-7200 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 | 3 Miss New Mexico, from Las Cruces, promotes arts, youth opportunities By MIKE COOK in June, after her selec- platform she created and Parade the evening of as she fulfills her duties of shows at Boba Café Las Cruces Bulletin tion as Miss Las Cruces calls Promoting the Love July 3, Rey said she real- as Miss New Mexico. and Cabaret. in February, a title she of Arts in Youth (PLAY). ized she had transitioned Rey is well-known to Her favorite role, Rey During her reign, the also held in 2013. Through PLAY, she from “just being Taylor to Las Cruces audiences for said, was “Audrey” in new Miss New Mexico, Rey wants to spend her hopes to inspire young being Miss New Mexico performances in “Nine” “Little Shop of Horrors” Taylor Rey of Las Cruces, reign helping students artists in Las Cruces and and a celebrity in my and “Chicago” for Scaf- at Rio Grande Theatre at would like to visit every across the state realize throughout New Mexico community.” folding Theatre Company, age 15. “It was awesome,” school in New Mexico. the opportunities avail- to pursue their dreams Las Cruces will con- “Dames at Sea” and she said. Rey, 22, won the crown able to them through a of being professional tinue to be her base as “White Christmas” for Rey was a student at performers though they she travels across the Las Cruces Community Michelle’s Dance Acad- live far from New York, state, she said. Her plans Theatre and “Twitch,” at emy in Las Cruces and Hollywood and other en- to pursue a career in mu- Black Box Theatre. She tertainment meccas. sical theatre are on hold has also done a number SEE REY, PAGE 4 “You can get there from here,” said Rey, a 2013 graduate of Las Cruces High School. Rey is also raising money for the Miss New Mexico Scholarship Or- ganization, which she said is “really important to me.” “This is my full-time job,” she said. Rey spent a year pre- paring for the Miss New Mexico Pageant, and “went in feeling very con- fident.” She was selected from among 29 contes- tants statewide. Just a month earlier, Rey graduated from Oklahoma City Univer- sity with a bachelor’s degree in music, and is now among 62 state title holders honored in OCU’s Hall of Queens. Three of those women are for- mer Miss Americas, and Rey hopes to become the fourth when she com- petes in the 2017 Miss America Pageant in Sep- tember in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 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