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| The Curtain Call Club returns to Woodstown in 2024! |
Hear ye, hear ye! O yez, O yez!
Greetings, dear residents of Woodstown! Gather 'round as your Crier brings you the latest dispatch from the heart of our charming town.
One of my new favorite roles in Woodstown is as the Assistant Director of this year's high school musical, Brigadoon. The story follows two hunters in the highlands of Scotland who come across a village that appears magically out of the mist once every 100 years.
This year, the Drama Club announced a need for a Booster Club to assist with the funding of its annual plays and musicals, and to enrich the theatre program in Woodstown's schools. This gave me the idea to revive something in our community that's been dormant for 60 years.
In the Brigadoonian spirit of revival, for the past two months, I have been working with the Drama Club to bring back The Curtain Call Club of Woodstown.
The Curtain Call Club was founded by Woodstown alumni performers in 1934 as a way to fundraise for Woodstown High School students during the Great Depression. In the 1940s, they undertook the responsibility of renovating the Woodstown Opera House, where they operated and performed for the community until May 1964. Their performances are well remembered by those who were there to experience it, and their history remains an important part of Woodstown.
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| OUR TOWN Woodstown High School, 1967 Directed by Jayne Hopkins |
For the past 60 years, however, they were thought to be gone — but that was only an intermission. We are reviving The Curtain Call Club in 2024 with a newfound dedication to its roots and an enthusiastic embrace of the future. As your Town Crier, it brings me great joy to herald this revival. The new Club will be composed of parents of current students, Woodstown High School theatre alumni, and members of the community working as a booster club for the Woodstown High & Middle Schools Drama Clubs (aka. Woodstown Theatre Department). Just as the Curtain Call Club is a historic institution in Woodstown, so is our High School's Theatre Department, educating students in the performing arts and providing live entertainment to our community for more than a century.
This reimagined chapter of the Curtain Call Club is not just a return to the stage; it's a lively celebration of community, creativity, and continuity. The Club's primary mission is to fully fund productions by the Woodstown Theatre Department, and also engage with our neighbors, enrich the minds of our youth through educational programs, and preserve the cherished legacy of our local performing arts.
To get involved with the Club, click here.
For tickets to Brigadoon (Feb. 29, Mar. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9), click here.
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