Colonial Theatre Reunion and Renewal

Tonight, the Colonial Theatre had "the Colonial Theatre Reunion and Renewal"

For a couple of weeks, the new theatre coodinator, Barbara Burgess-LeFebvre has been directing a medley of songs from the musical "Songs for a New World" for the show. I, and a couple of other RMU students and alumni, have learned some new songs to sing for everybody.

The cast includes: Caitlin Varley, Gretchen Blumle, Lindsey Wright, Mike Mainier, Lenny Labriola, Emily Dewald, and Kyle Bradley. Another guy named Jerimiah Brown, is singing with us too.

So, tonight before the show, there was a presentation and an award to the guy who started the whole Colonial Thearte program, Thomas V. Gaydos. Others, such as to John Locke, Ken Gargaro, Barbara Burggess-Lefebre, and the deceased Alvita Martin-Friar were recognized, as well.

Then there was a video which showed the original barn theatre, burned down in 1986, and it also showed clips of recent shows, including "Save the People" from "Godspell", "Footloose" from "Footloose", "Greased Lightnin'" from "Grease", "If I Could've Been", which was from "Working", and photos from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Finally the show portion of the ceremony started, and it went very well. Better then we thought, anyway. But, we all got "congradulations" for the work we did in a short amount of time.

After that, we all went to The Ground Round again. Gary Ashley, and his family were with us too, for that.

So, Joseph is coming up in about a month. Looking forward to it.