Hello all,
Unfortunately, I have some bad news. Tonight’s performance of The Taming of the Shrew has regrettably been canceled. Polly Edwards, our Kate, has been in and out of the hospital 3 times in the past couple days. She’s being taken care of now, but unfortunately, Shrew isn’t much of a show without Kate. She believes that she’ll be better enough for the Friday & Saturday performances, but is simply unable to perform tonight.
If you have purchased tickets, please contact our boxoffice to either reschedule to one of our remaining performances, or to request your money refunded.
Thank you for your understanding and we all wish Polly speedy recovery.
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A friend and I drove to see the show tonight and saw the handwritten note on the door. We were disappointed. As theatre people ourselves (I personally have stage managed extensively), we were surprised that “the show [didn't] go on”. As a new group, I think that in the future, you ought to plan ways to make a show work even if a (lead) actor cannot perform, so as to not disappoint patrons. Tonight was the only night we were able to come see the performance, so as a result we were left in the cold.
Hi Kevin,
I’m really sorry that you were disappointed. Unfortunately, we were in a position where we had to weigh the health of one of our actors, the quality of the show we could put on without her and ultimately, decided that for last night, we were not in a position to put on a show with the quality we wanted to. We have learned lessons from yesterdays events and will endeavor to apply them appropriately in the future.
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