Ivoryton Playhouse to Host Cancer Survivor Night During CALENDAR GIRLS Run

The summer season opens at the Ivoryton Playhouse with the US professional premier of one of the UK's most popular shows, Calendar Girls. Adapted by Tim Firth from his smash hit Miramax film of the same name, it is based on an inspiring true story about a group of extraordinary women who persuade one another to pose au natural for a charity calendar to raise money to help support a cancer unit.

The Ivoryton Playhouse is also helping to raise awareness for several cancer charities by hosting a Cancer Survivor Night on Wednesday, June 3rd at 7:30pm - tickets are only $21 for those individuals who have survived the challenge of cancer (this is half price the adult ticket price). Participating organizations include Little Wonder (littlewonder.org), Middlesex Hospital's Center for Survivorship and Integrative Medicine, Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation (terribrodeurbreastcancerfoundation.org) and the Valley Shore YMCA - Hope is Power Program (vsymca.org). For more information, call the Ivoryton Playhouse box office 860.767.7318.

To further support these charities, Ivoryton Playhouse is producing a calendar of the theatre's Calendar Girls with a portion of the proceeds going to support the work of these organizations. The June 2015 - May 2016 calendars will be available for purchase from the Ivoryton Playhouse for $20.00. Photography for the calendar was donated by Chris Devlin Photography (http://devlinphotography.com) and the calendar printing is sponsored by Essex Printing.

Calendar Girls is a dazzlingly funny, shamelessly sentimental and utterly captivating play - one of the best- selling comedies in British theatre history.

Calendar Girls opens at the Ivoryton Playhouse on June 3rd and runs through June 21st, 2015. Performance times are Wednesday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Evening performances are Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm.

Tickets are $42 for adults, $37 for seniors, $20 for students and $15 for children and are available by calling the Playhouse box office at 860.767.7318 or by visiting our website at www.ivorytonplayhouse.org. The Playhouse is located at 103 Main Street in Ivoryton.

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