Senior Trips
Join us for pleasure-packed, hassle-free excursions with your friends. No headaches from driving or parking! We secure the best seats available for all our destinations. Reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. PTC members have priority. Non-members may register 2 weeks after the Bulletin is mailed.Full payment is due at the
time of registration. Visa, MasterCard and Discover Card are accepted. In case of cancellations, refunds (minus a 10% administrative fee) will be issued if we are able to fill the opening from our wait list. Advise us at registration if you need any reasonable special accommodations.
Please note the DEPARTURE LOCATION for
all joint trips with Highland Park. We will depart
from and return to the far south end of the Toys
'R' Us Parking Lot at 1610 Deerfield Rd. in
Highland Park just west of the Jewel. You can
access this lot from the traffic light on Deerfield Road or from the south entrance off Old Deerfield
Road. Please use spaces away from the store
entrance. Thank you for your cooperation.
Funny Girl" Wait List Only!
Drury Lane Oakbrook
#213250-03: Wed., March 3
Departs @ 10:15 am
"Anything Goes"
Thurs., March 4
Transportation-on-your-own
Dinner: 6:15 pm
Performance: 7:30 pm
$3M … $5NM (RSVP by 2/26)
We will again travel to DHS for a
pre-theater dinner hosted by the
Pom Pon Squad and then great seats
for their annual musical. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with Heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The show introduced such songs as “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top,” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.”
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
The Art Institute of Chicago
Tues., March 23
Departs @ 9:00 am
$48M ... $58NM
In the career of Henri Matisse, the time between his 1913
return from Morocco and his 1917 departure for Nice
witnessed the production of the artist’s most demanding,
experimental, and enigmatic works. This exhibit will
highlight the findings of a collaborative research project
of MOMA and the Art Institute offering new information
about the artist’s pigments, experimental techniques,
and compositional choices. The exhibit will include
approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and
prints. Lunch will be on-your-own.
"Billy Elliot
The Musical"
Wed., April 21 Wait List Only
Departs 12:15 pm
Notre Dame University & South Bend
with Bill Hinchliff
Thurs., April 29
Departs @ 9 am
$65M ... $75NM
Notre Dame has one of the most
beautiful campuses in the U.S.,
distinguished by its spacious quadrangles, the stylistic consistency of its architecture, and its beautiful landscapes and sculptures—many by Ivan Mestrovic. Visit Old Main, the stunning Basilica of the Sacred Heart, and the Hesburgh Library. Also tour the old parts of South Bend, home of some great industrialists, such as the Studebaker brothers and Joseph Oliver. Enjoy lunch at the former Studebaker mansion called Tippecanoe Place. There will be a LOT OF WALKING, and there may not be anywhere to sit during the tour.
Million Dollar Quartet”
Apollo Theater
Wed., May 5
Departs @ 12:15 pm
$58M ... $68NM
On Tuesday, December 4, 1956,
in the Sun Record Studios in
Memphis, Tennessee, Johnny Cash,
Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and
Jerry Lee Lewis played together for the first and only
time. This musical dramatizes this amazing impromptu
jam session—the night rock ‘n’ roll came alive! Hedy
Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times says, “This quartet
can ROCK! … [It is an] altogether rollicking 90-minute
fantasia.”
"The 39 Steps"
Bank of America Theatre
Wed., May 26
Departs @ 12:15 pm
$92M ... $102NM
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have The 39 Steps—a fast-paced 'whodunit' for anyone who loves the magic of theater! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (play by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an on stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! ... A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she is a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, this play amounts to an unforgettable event of pure pleasure.
"Billy Elliot – The Musical"
Wed., June 9
Departs @ 12:15 pm
$117M … $127NM (Wait list only)
Cubs vs. Brewers
Miller Park, Milwaukee
Thurs., June 10
Departs @ 10:30 am
$85M ... $95NM
Grab your favorite, lucky Cubs gear to enjoy the game – rain or shine – under the practical and amazing dome that opens and closes over Miller Park Stadium in Milwaukee. What could be better than enjoying the "home" team in this comfortable setting, with expansive selections of concessions, and great seats.You can choose to bring your lunch or purchase food at the ball park.
Rick Bayless' Kitchen Garden Tour & Lunch at the Chef's Frontera Grill
Thurs., June 24
Departs @ 9:15 am
$79M ... $89NM
Learn about 'Edible Landscaping'
on an inspirational tour of the
garden that supplies this nationally
famous chef's three downtown
restaurants— Frontera Grill,
Topolobampo, & Xoco. Bayless is also the founder of the Frontera Farmer Foundation, an organization that supports small local farmers, a staff member of the Culinary Institute of America, cook book author and star of PBS's Mexico–One Plate at a Time. His beautiful and functional organic garden serves as a model for urban food production. Our tour leader, Bill Shores, also works with smaller scale intensive gardening systems. ... Lunch will be in a private dining room shared by two of Bayless' restaurants. There will be a lot of walking involved with this one hour garden tour with no place to sit and rest. Please consider this when registering for this trip.
2010 American Classic Extended Tours
Sponsored by the PTSC
Trip flyers and registration materials will
be available at the PTSC.
May 2010 … 3 days
Holland Tulip Festival
June 2010 . . . 5 days
Mackinac Island Lilac Festival
August 2010 . . . 8 days
National Parks: Yellowstone, Glacier & Grand Teton
September 2010 . . . 5 days
San Francisco & Napa Valley
October 2010 . . . 3 days
Cranberry Autumn Harvest in Wisconsin
November/December 2010...5 days
San Antonio Southwestern Christmas
