Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While you're thinking theatre, it's not too soon to line up tickets for the Rep's next two shows, Life with Father and That Championship Season. Better yet think about getting rush seats ($3.95 half an hour before curtain) or ushering (free, and sometimes you get better seats than you could have bought...
...Rep is expensive--ticket prices are only slightly lower than downtown--but the quality of its productions is reputedly high. George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, recruits the company from all across the country, inviting noted New York and Boston area actors and other younger performers chosen through a series of national auditions to participate...
...planning your summer theater season in advance (and it pays to--advance subscriptions are cheaper), coming up on the Rep's schedule are Life with Father and That Championship Season. The former--which stars Hamlin, who will also direct, as "father"--has had a brisk advance sale, so it might be a good idea to get tickets...
...Rep is not the most democratic ensemble, at least when it comes to participation in its performances. While Dance Center students pool their talents with professionals on-stage and off, theater students must content themselves instead with the handful of Theatre Arts courses offered by the Summer School--in the summer the Loeb becomes the exclusive province of professionals...
Hamlin recruits members of the Rep from New York, Boston and various drama schools, and he says the recruitment process is not much of a problem. "This theater and summer operation have a tremendous reputation across the country. If I were to ask someone if he wanted to be in the company, he would automatically say yes," he says...