Subject: Hobby Centre : Houston TX : 8/9/10 13.05.11 15:11
800 Bagby Street
Houston TX
Adam Lambert brings the sparkle
Joey Guerra
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Downtown's Hobby Center is usually reserved for Broadway musicals, tasteful dance performances and highfalutin music.
But Thursday night, Sarofim Hall became occupied by the Glam Nation. Feathers and sequins and hats and glitter. So much glitter.
And this was all before American Idol finalist Adam Lambert took the stage.
An overwhelmingly female crowd, from teens to senior citizens, sported Lambert T-shirts and waved multicolored glow sticks in the air. They chattered incessantly. Ran between friends. Furiously snapped photos.
One gray-haired man -- so overwhelmed, apparently, by the frenetic bounce of Ke$ha's Take It Off -- jumped out of his seat and gyrated up and down the aisles, accompanied by women in boas and sparkly tops.
The crowd went wild. A few seemed petrified. Hundreds of camera phones came alive -- including, of course, mine. I wasn't about to miss out on this: