Message of Westborough Players' Season Opener: Hope
'Annie' will be performed at Gibbons Middle School on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Westborough Players’ Club’s 76th season opener will resonate with audiences musically. And, to some degree, personally. Part of "Annie's" appeal is it is “a show that people would love and that we could have kids and adults in and that would be a lot of fun,” director Sarah Worrest says. At the same time, “Annie” is set during the Great Depression, with “a lot of real historical” references, a facet that “hits home for me this year,” she says. “I see people struggling. People aren’t living on the streets in the sort of masses that they were in the 30s, but people are having a hard time financially with their jobs. There’s that sort of echo there,” Worrest said during rehearsal Friday night at the Gibbons Middle School. The shows are at…
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Paul Bishop
12:56 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Happy to do it! I think community arts are a very important public good.. if I can help folks get the recognition they ought to get, or get a few more tickets sold to support these programs, then I have done something I can be proud of. Living on a disability income, I can't afford to donate money but I can donate some time and what I have learned in terms of getting stage shots- and am proud to … more ›