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Hovey Players Presents Hovey’s incredibly successful Summer Shorts festival of new works will be moving to a new home, just up Moody Street to Auburndale’s Turtle Lane Playhouse! “This co-production between Turtle Lane and Hovey has come at a terrific time,” says Jerry Bisantz, producer and founder of the seven year old Summer Shorts festival. John MacKenzie, former Hovey president, agrees. “Last year’s show was SO successful, with the addition of original music, mini-musicals and ten minute plays, that we literally had nowhere to put our audience and, unfortunately, many people had to be turned away. This won’t happen at the larger space.” To many of our readers who don’t know, Turtle Lane is a quaint little theater on Melrose Street in Auburndale, just off Commonwealth Avenue. They have seating capacity for 170, central air conditioning, and even have a cute little pub on the premises. They are well known for their musicals, and just completed a very successful run of “Fiddler On The Roof.” Bobsie Mitton, the managing director of the theater, was so smitten with last year’s Summer Shorts festival that the decision was made in no time at all. A reluctant businessman at an airport terminal is sent on a life or death mission… a guilt-ridden man breaks into the Red Sox front office with “the curse” in his briefcase… a woman bargains with a Jewish cowboy for her son’s Bar Mitzvah… these and many other silly, moving, strange and vivid tales will be presented by Boston’s finest talent in the 8th annual Hovey Summer Shorts Festival at Turtle Lane Playhouse. Featuring the area’s top playwrights, the festival is an explosion of writing, acting, songwriting, and singing talent presented in six evenings from August 26th through September 4th. Performed over two weekends and divided into three programs, each evening consists of six ten-minute plays, four original songs by local composers, and a twenty minute “mini” musical… all original, all fresh, and all performed by the quality acting and singing talent that is synonomous with the Hovey Players and Turtle Lane Playhouse. The “Hub Of The Universe” has some of the best playwriting talent in the country, and Summer Shorts will put it all out there for you with productions that will expand your theatrical world. Settle in… enjoy a drink at our bar, grab a seat in the air conditioned comfort of Turtle Lane Playhouse, and enjoy what Larry Stark of Theater Mirror called “…the best damn theater doing what they do best…” The 8th Annual Hovey Summer Shorts Schedule
Hovey Summer Shorts 2004. For tickets and information, call 617-244-0169. Hovey Summer Shorts at the | ||||||
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Submit your play for consideration to: Hovey Players, Inc. Attn: Summer Shorts P.O. Box 540101 Waltham, MA 02254-0101 |
