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Scan QR Code north, the historic Aurora For Directions Players Roycroft Pavilion ROYCROFT Order Tickets Online: PAVILION is a convenient auroraplayers.org Hamlin 15- to 20-minute Park W E commute from bit.ly/AP_Map_Directions nearby southtowns Please Note Evening P N communities. Show Time Change To 7:30M S GRIGGS PLACE sEating charT and conTacT inforMaTion LiVE THEaTrE sincE 1934 (a well-known drama critic and friend of Dorothy’s Our Eighty-sEVEnth YEar Book & Lyrics: who has just broken his rule of never reviewing of CoMMunity ThEATrE Gerome Ragni community theatre). When Paul has a heart attack, he drops his not-yet-published review before being in East Aurora & James Rado taken to the hospital. The actors read it and confront Music: Galt the harsh reality of a pan. Dorothy’s sweetness and A short, quiet stroll two blocks south of the patience rise above Ernie’s bitter tirade, and the others trade barbs and insults as they try to control their Roycroft Inn on South Grove Street brings you to MacDermot emotions. The party becomes the setting where the shady Hamlin Park with its towering trees and Directed by by Tom Griffin dreams, loves, failures and successes of this group are historic Roycroft Pavilion, home to East Aurora’s David Hall explored with bittersweet humor and the relationship own long-standing community theatre group, Directed by Patricia Hoefler Music Director: between risk and need is touchingly depicted. Aurora Players, Inc. John Szablewski Patricia Hoefler is no stranger to Aurora Players, For over 85 years, audiences have enjoyed quality October 1 – 3, 8 – 10, March 11– 13, returning after directing the musical She Loves Me theatrical entertainment presented in the 15 – 17 & 22 – 23 Vocal Director: 18 – 20 & 25 – 27 in the fall of 2018. Prior to that she directed Barefoot 2022 in the Park. Much earlier, she appeared in AP’s The inviting Roycroft Pavilion, which was originally 2021 Chuck Basil constructed as an open-air picnic pavilion Following the opening night of the Timberly Troupers’ Robber Bridegroom and The Lion in Winter. After a NOTE: For Mature Audiences Only Choreography: musical about undertakers, Dorothy and her slightly move to Rhode Island in the 1980s, she worked with by – and for – the Roycroft artisan community Due to Adult Material and Profanity daft husband, Charlie, host a gathering of actors and community theatre groups there while earning her BA who lived and worked on the nearby Roycroft Suzie Hibbard friends. It’s a chic opening night party with a guest list degree in theatre and MFA in Performance and Society A change was coming in the 1960s. A new generation was rebelling against the Campus. Dedicated on July 4, 1903 by Roycroft that includes Nathan (a recently divorced high school at Rhode Island College, appearing in RIC productions founder Elbert Hubbard, the Roycroft Pavilion conformity of the “Fabulous Fifties” and hoping to bring an age of peace and teacher who is also a very bad ventriloquist), Wayne of The Art of Dining and Twelve Angry Women. has witnessed many additions and changes to love to the world, with be-ins, sit-ins, protest marches and music. Gerome Ragni (better at loving than acting), Jennifer (who has a sure She has directed a number of plays, from Shakespeare its physical structure. But the main building and James Rado were actors during this turbulent time and most certainly felt shot at Hollywood stardom), Ernie (one of the Troupers’ to more modern comedies, and has written and still stands proudly, well over 100 years later. a historical change coming. They passionately wanted to portray on stage what actors filled with ham and spite), Irene (his out-of- workshopped several plays. An Orchard Park resident, Today, the building houses an intimate theatre, they were witnessing in the streets of New York City for all the world to see. patience wife), Mona (who was in love with Wayne Patricia is an online humanities instructor and finds comfortably seating audiences of nearly 200. The “Age of Aquarius” had dawned and HAIR was born. but has since moved on to someone else) and Paul time to sing in the choir at Saint John Vianney Church. It also provides ample rehearsal and performance The Vietnam War is the backdrop of the story, a time when being drafted is almost space, permanent property and scenery storage a certainty for every young man. The leader of a tribe of hippies receives his draft mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner and boasts an extensive costume collection, notice and struggles with his commitment to the group, their principles, and a pull party where murder and blackmail are on the which is proudly showcased during at least toward something more. Experience the excitement of an age when anything was menu. When their host turns up dead, they all three performances each year. thought possible – when “peace guided the planets and love steered the stars.” become suspects. Wadsworth the butler leads Miss After a one-year hiatus due to the Covid David Hall has been active in Aurora Players for many years, bringing his artistic Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Colonel Mustard on a madcap pandemic, we are more than thrilled to welcome directorial vision to such audience favorites as The Glass Menagerie, Agatha race to find the killer as the body count stacks up. you back to the magic of live theatre. While the Christie’s Towards Zero, Grease, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Funny Thing Happened Clue is the comedy whodunit that will leave both stage lights cooled, we accomplished some much On The Way To The Forum, and Little Shop of Horrors. He’s also directed many productions with Lancaster Regional Players, such as Run For Your Wife, Dracula, Based on the Screenplay by cult-fans and newcomers in stitches as they try to needed back-stage renovations. We also improved figure out …WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT! our heating and cooling filtration, and employed and assistant directed Moon Over Buffalo. A veteran actor of Aurora Players, he’s Jonathan Lynn John Szablewski leads this zany comedy after the services of a trusted janitorial service to most recently been seen onstage in And Then There Were None, Miracle on 34th Additional Material by Hunter Foster, Street and Alice in Wonderland. bringing Miracle on 34th Street to the Aurora Players thoroughly clean and disinfect the building on Sandy Rustin, and Eric Price stage in December 2019. He also directed Theatre a regular basis. After 2020, we all want to feel John Szablewski serves as orchestral music director for HAIR. He has played for Original Music by David Abbinanti in Hamlin Park’s inaugural summer production confident about being together again. Best of numerous musicals including The Wedding Singer, Mamma Mia!, Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical, Sister Robert Ann’s Cabaret Class and Directed by John Szablewski of Alice in Wonderland. On stage, John has been all, we have planned a season of entertainment seen in Little Shop of Horrors, It’s A Wonderful Life, She Loves Me. John has also been musical director for Rocking Horse Productions. that will make you sing, laugh (maybe cry just a May 27 – 29, A Few Good Men, and Moon Over Buffalo, as well little) and reflect on what it is to be human, just Chuck Basil returns as vocal music director for HAIR after bringing AP the crowd as other productions. John has assisted in building as all good theatre should. So pour a cup of coffee favorites, Grease, and Little Shop of Horrors. June 3 – 5 & 10 – 12 2022 and designing numerous sets for Aurora Players and peruse the brief descriptions of the musical Suzie Hibbard received her B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Niagara University. Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie – which and frequently plays keyboard in the orchestra for HAIR, our comedy Amateurs, and the madcap She has numerous choreography and acting credits with local and regional was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game – musicals. For the last 8 years, John has been the whodunit, Clue. We can’t wait to share it all theaters, including choreographer for productions of She Loves Me and Little Shop Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. National Touring Broadway Show Reviewer for with you. Won’t you please join us? of Horrors with Aurora Players. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six Buffalo Theatre Guide.