The Windham Theatre Guild Receives New Chairs from UConn’s Jorgensen Center

When opportunity knocks, sometimes you have to let it in and let it offer you new possibilities. That's what happened this spring when Rodney Rock of UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs contacted the Windham Theatre Guild. Jorgensen was going to get new chairs as part of their renovations and they offered some of their old seats to the WTG.

The Guild always asks patrons to fill out comment cards when they come for an event at the Burton Leavitt Theatre and the most frequent suggestion received is that more comfortable seating is needed. These suggestions are getting more frequent as the theatre gets older. When the Guild heard from Jorgensen, they felt like an answer had been provided. Unfortunately this means that the WTG will no longer do Dessert and Dinner Theatre performances. All the shows will have to be row seating with the "new" theatre seats.

The WTG would like to thank all of their Dinner Theatre patrons, and Keely Santa Lucia of Culinary Expressions for making the Guild's dinner theatre years at the Burton Leavitt Theatre memorable. The Guild would also like to thank their friends and valuable supporters at D&W Development and Design Center East for storing the chairs. The Guild will first use these new comfortable theatre seats at the beginning of their 26th year for the summer musical production of All Shook Up, based on the music of Elvis Presley running July 16th-31st.

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