Senior Center: Broadway Hits Wednesday, Monster Mash Thursday

The Brookfield Senior Center, 100 Pocono Road, has two very different afternoons — well, one morning and one midday — on its calendar this week, and both are open to the center's regular crowd.

Wednesday, October 28, at 10:45 a.m., Katrina DeVona leads "70s & 80s Broadway Hits," a musical program built around two decades of show tunes. It is the kind of sing-along morning the center does well: familiar songs, a room full of neighbors, and no need to know the words in advance.

Thursday, October 29, at noon, the center throws its Monster Mash Halloween Party. Costumes are the point of the afternoon, and the party is the center's Halloween celebration for the week — timed a day ahead of the town's bigger Halloween events so the regulars get their own party first.

The two events sit alongside the center's regular weekly rhythm of games, exercise classes, and shared meals. The center has become a steady gathering place since it opened, and its calendar leans on exactly this mix: a musical morning one day, a themed party the next, and the familiar weekly programs in between. Anyone new to the center can stop by during program hours to learn about membership and the monthly schedule; the center's newsletter lists the full month of specials, trips, and deadlines.

Both events take place at the Senior Center on Pocono Road, next door to Town Hall, where early voting is also under way this week. Visitors coming for the Monster Mash on Thursday will find the building doubly busy: early voting runs extended hours that day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.