A huge thank you to Seth Vlahakos from Modern Woodmen of America who gave us matching funds for the auction our youth theater camp programs did over the summer! This donation to help our summer programs made it possible for the youth and teen camps to go on, as well as allowing students who may not initially be able to afford camp, attend it!
Each year, the camp programs take in several students from all around the Lewiston/Auburn Area. Our youth and teen summer camp programs include training in auditions, improvisation, choreography, music, and technical theatre, concluding with a full staged production. Students learn skills that they can take with them to other theaters, and into their personal and professional lives.
From left to right: Brandon Chaloux, Seth Vlahakos, Ashleigh St. Pierre
If you’d like to be a season, or show sponsor inquire by emailing us at info@laclt.com!
- Editor
- Nov 1, 2024
Immediately after the Sunday, October 27th, 2024, matinee performance of the musical 1776, the 27 cast members lined up on a row of chairs that filled the length of the stage, and participated in a question-and-answer session with the audience. Audience members were fascinated to hear stories about the real people that the play’s characters were based on, the result of research done by the individual cast members. For example, they learned that we have Judge Wilson (played by Dan Kane) to thank for the Electoral College, or the cost of actually buying a slave, or that couriers (ours was played by Rowland Hazard) were most often teen-age boys, or how Independence Hall looks in real life (the space is not all that big.). Every cast member had an interesting story to tell about their character, sometimes things alluded to in the play (like Abigail Adams' activism) and sometimes not (like the fact that Jefferson's wife, Martha, only lived a few more years).
Thank you to all that joined us for our production of 1776 and for this wonderful opportunity to meet our patrons!
- Editor
- Oct 30, 2024
Thanks to beautiful weather on October 18th and 19th, 2024, CLT successfully launched our first-ever L/A Ghost Walks. The production consisted of 25 volunteer actors and 25 more non-actors who served on the Event Planning Committee and as day-of safety volunteers. 160 people joined us at the L/A Ghost Walks as we took community members and spooky fans of haunted history on a guided tour through downtown Auburn and Lewiston. Tour guides, portraying the ghosts of famous Mainers throughout history, taught our guests about the histories of the twin cities while they walked, including a stop at Edward Little's House, Horatio and Ella Foss' mansion, stories of prohibition, the Wabanaki people, the Bates Mill, the Spanish Influenza, and more. The tours featured several ghost appearances, and a haunted gift shop complete with Tarot card readings at the end.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and be sure to check out our CLT Haunted House next year!
Interested in getting involved or joining a committee? Reach out to info@laclt.com!
