The Line Starts Here...Free Fun Friday Fills the House!

And the line did start...as early as 3:00pm! New Rep staff hustled their preparations for their Free Fun Friday performance of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this past Friday, sponsored by Highland Street Foundation. Though tickets would not be released until 4:30 and the house would not open for seating until 5:30, a crowd of 30-plus people filled the sidewalk by the Arsenal Center for the Arts by a mere 3:30pm.

Some awaited more anxiously than others...

Being a bright, sunny, pre-hurricane afternoon, individual viewers and full families attended the event from a variety of locations and theatrical interests. It was wonderful to see such a diverse presence from the community, as the company shared the first performance of New Rep On Tour.

Whole Foods' generous donation of concession items helped New Rep's programming, while cooling viewers and quieting the younger attendees.

In addition to the show, ticket-holders were given the chance to enter New Rep's raffle to win four tickets to the holiday show A Christmas Story. Viewers young and old participated excitedly, and the three lucky winners were thrilled Monday morning after receiving their congratulatory calls. (View who won on our website.)

By house opening, we were down to five tickets. By show time, we were completely sold out! All 340 seats of the theater bustled with nervous energy. An hour later, New Rep staff were still turning people away at the door, having long since reached full capacity.

As Facebook follower @Lori Holmes Fournier posted,

Just came home from watching Huckleberry Finn and it was AWESOME! Love you guys, we have always come home so happy with the theater experience. Thank you for all your hard work, it shows. Can't wait for Little shop of horrors & Tales of Poe.

So thank you to all who came out on August 26th, and thank you to Highland Street Foundation. It was a beautiful event, happily shared with as many members of our community as we could hold in our seats!