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Palace Play Benefits Group Seeking Reopening of Rogers Center

Sat, Jan 15, 2011

Palace Play Benefits Group Seeking Reopening of Rogers Center

The Dr. Seuss environmental tale of The Lorax will be presented Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. at the Palace Theater.

The play is performed by former staff members of the Rogers Environmental Center in Sherburne; all were laid off late last year when the state closed the center because of cuts to the Department of Environmental Conservation. Proceeds benefit the Friends of Rogers, which is trying to convince the state to reopen the center. 

"We are proud to present The Lorax because our audience requested its return, it's a timeless story with a great message, and now since the closing of Rogers EE Center, to help The Friends of Rogers." Says Patricia von Mechow, artistic director of the Palace Theater, whose husband appears in the play and was one of the Rogers employees to lose their jobs..

The next live theater show in the family series will be Winnie the Pooh performed by Sign Stage on Tour, a theater troupe comprised of hearing and deaf actors (April 7).

For more details call the Palace at 824-1420.

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