Friday, January 7, 2011

The Show Goes On (Again!) At Bucks County Playhouse

The legendary Bucks County Playhouse has been saved -- again.
The Playhouse (which has had more comebacks than Judy Garland) will get yet another "new lease on life."
The theater in the Philadelphia suburb of New Hope went into foreclosure and closed last month after more than 70 years in business. It was opened in 1939 by Moss Hart and other luminaries who turned it into a playhouse as a way of saving a local grist mill in the charming community along the Delaware.
The Playhouse will now be managed by a nonprofit comprising local residents, government officials, and a consortium of Broadway professionals.
The Bucks County Playhouse, The State Theater of Pennsylvania, is a national landmark for Broadway plays and is rich in theatrical history.
“Springtime for Henry” with Edward Everett Horton opened the Playhouse season in 1939 and the celebrities that followed are a who's who of the theater. Princess Grace Kelly, Bea Arthur, Jack Cassidy, Colleen Dewhurst, Bob Fosse, Merv Griffin, Gene Rayburn, William Shatner, Paul Lynde, George C. Scott, Liza Minnelli, Audra McDonald, Loretta Swit, Don Knotts, Andrea McArdle and John Travolta are just a few of the luminaries that have graced the Playhouse stage in its incredible list of Broadway productions.

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