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Several years ago, the Public
Broadcasting Service had a slogan
that stated, Minds Matter. In depth
exploration of societal issues is
important, not only for our own minds
but also for the community spirit. Fulton
Theatres mission shares this attitude:
The mission of the Fulton
Theatre is to create and produce
exceptional theatre that moves
the collective soul of our
community and honors our
national historic landmark.
It is a bold statement that we nurture
the collective soul of our community
through entertainment. But theatre is
much more than a
pleasant way to pass
time. Theatre is an
active engagement
in someone elses
reality or fantasy
that builds community
empathy, causes personal refection and
strikes common passions.
Back in 2009, the Fulton produced the
thriller Dial M for Murder. During
the run of that production, I heard
from several audience members who
shared how personally horrifed they
felt as they watched the unsuspecting
Margot Wendice walk toward the drawn
curtains knowing that the murderer
was waiting behind them ready to
strangle her. They said that they were
even more frightened and interestingly
ashamed than when they watch
suspense flms. I think the reason is that
participating in theatre is an active
process. Unlike flm and television (and
even visual art), the audience is the
curator of the artistic experience and a
vocal (or silent) participant. You as an
audience member decide where you
will focus your attention on stage and
your soul bears that responsibility. If you
concentrate on the murderer behind the
curtain and dont scream out to save the
Mrs. Wendice from doom, your silence
builds strong inner confict. There is no
right or wrong reaction to a theatrical
performance, only self-discovery and
(we hope) sharing. Because, at least
in the Fultons case, performances take
place in a theatre building, communal
sharing happens naturally. Try watching
a comedy flm at home alone. You might
laugh, but not as freely or as sustained
as you would in a packed movie theatre.
And youll be aware of the pauses that
are built into the action and dialogue for
audience response. When we come to
the theatre and laugh together, gasp
at the same action, applaud for a
stunning dance move or remain still
at the end of a touching song, we are
building common links to everyone else
in attendance.
Unfortunately, we are bombarded daily
with messages of what divides us, and
the media culture tries to force us to
pick sides on every social issue. How
refreshing to participate in a social
experience, theatre, that allows us to
draw personal conclusions while at the
same time celebrating our shared desire
to be one with the community. Often
the theatre will spark a lively discussion
on the ride home, but because weve
enjoyed the same event together, our
dialogue is typically an exercise to
understand one another rather than an
effort to win a debate.
All of us at the Fulton are thrilled to
be able to create theatrical art in this
wonderful community and in such an
inspiring building. Even more thrilling
is the fact that the community has
responded positively to the work that
our artists are creating. More than
250 actors, directors, designers,
choreographers, musicians, technicians,
carpenters, stitchers, playwrights,
composers, stage managers and
administrators consider the Fulton their
artistic home every season. We hope that
you will join with us and help prove that
theatre matters.
Aaron A. Young, Managing Director
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Two of the biggest misconceptions about the Fulton
Theatre are: 1. our productions are travelling shows
that get booked into our lovely venue and 2. that
we can produce any play we want whenever we
want to. When I am meeting with people from the
community or chatting with our subscribers, one
of the most common questions I get is when are
you going to do Wicked? or Jersey Boys or
Mamma Mia or fll in the popular title here.
The truth is I would love to add any one of those
shows to one of our upcoming seasons. And
hopefully, I will soon! If we booked in touring shows,
we might be able to get one of those titles if the
national tour was coming around. But, we produce
all our shows right here in Central Pennsylvania.
Our scenic, props, and costume departments are all
staffed with trained professionals who live right in
Lancaster County.
Our actors, many
of whom are local,
live in town while
the show is in
rehearsal and on
stage. Unless we
have partnered
with another regional theatre on a production, when
a show closes at the Fulton, it is gone forever.
The other factor in picking plays and musicals for a
season is that sometimes the rights to produce a
particular show simply are not available from the
licensing company. One such reason is that the
Fulton is considered competition for Broadway. Every
year, I try to get the rights to produce Chicago and
every year the answer is no. But I will keep trying!
But, for our 2014/2015 Season, we have been
able to assemble an amazing lineup, starting with
the hilarious comedy by York County native Ken
Ludwig, Lend Me a Tenor. At the holidays, we have
an all-new stage adaptation of the classic flm, Irving
Berlins White Christmas. It remains very faithful to
the flm but still provides a few wonderful surprises
and the interior of the Fulton will become a winter
wonderland! In January and February, its the perfect
time for a murder mystery. So, the Queen of Crime,
Agatha Christie is back with the thriller And Then
There Were None. Our production of Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein last season was so immensely
popular that this year we have his frst Broadway
musical based on the frst movie he directed, The
Producers. Next, we have another musical based
off a great movie, The Full Monty. This show is flled
with such great heart and is so much fun, I really
cant wait to share it with our community. Finally,
our Mainstage Season will come to a close with
my personal favorite show of all time that carries
so much meaning for me personally, The Wizard
of Oz. Needless to say, it is going to be a feast
for the senses with fying monkeys, immense sets,
hydraulics, projections. I can promise that you may

have seen The Wizard of Oz before, but youve
never seen it like this!
But that is not all that is going to be on our stage.
In conjunction with our Mainstage Series, we
also offer a Family Series of four one-hour long
musicals specifcally tailored for families with young
children. This year, our season includes Nutcracker,
Cinderella, Little Women and Peter Pan. And, last
year we started our new Ellen Arnold Groff Studio
Series. This series, held in the Fultons 4th Floor
Studio Theatre, is designed to bring new works to
Lancaster. Last season, we held several new play
readings and will continue this season with readings
of What Souls Are These? and an all-new adaptation
of the musical Ghost. But, we are also adding a fully
produced staging of the new play Venus in Fur.
I hope that you will join us for at least one of
these shows or sign up for a class. There are
many ways to be a part of the Fulton, and many
ways to participate regardless of your budgetary
constraints. From Pay-What-You-Want performances
to scholarships for Fulton Academy classes. There is
always a way to participate at the Fulton.
The absolute best way to engage with the Theatre is to
become a Season Ticket Subscriber. Fulton subscribers
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19TH CENTURY
1852 Christopher Hager, a city retailer
and civic leader, builds Fulton Hall
named for Robert Fulton, the Lancastrian
of steamboat fame; it replaces the colonial
prison that was the site of the Conestoga
Indian tribe massacre.
1856 Republican Party of Lancaster
County created on premises by Taddeus
Stevens.
1861-1864 Fulton Hall hosts
occasional performances during the Civil
War, while the Lancaster Fencibles use
the building as an armory, and the home
guard drills there. After the Battle of
Gettysburg, it briefy serves as a hospital.
1865 After the surrender at
Appomattox, the Patriot Daughters hold
beneft performances at Fulton Hall
to raise money to build the Soldiers &
Sailors Monument in Penn Square.
1873 Edwin Forrest Durang
(descendant of Americas frst actor,
Lancaster born John Durang, and ancestor
of modern playwright Christopher
Durang) remodels the interior into a true
performance venue. October 2 a beneft
performance of Othello for orphans and
widows of the Civil War featuring famed
actor E.L. Davenport who calls the Opera
House, the most beautiful little temple
of art in the United Statescertainly a
perfect little gem.
20TH CENTURY
1904 C. Emlen Urban designs the
current neo-classical interior.
1907 A spectacular production of Ben-
Hur hits town, complete with live camels
and horses, and a breath-taking chariot
race, with two teams of horses running
full gallop at the audience on a rumbling
treadmill.
Between the 1870s and the 1920s, big
names grace the stage, including Mark
Twain; Edwin and Junius Brutus Booth;
Maurice, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore;
Helen Hayes; Sarah Bernhardt; Minnie
Maddern Fiske; Fannie Brice; George
M. Cohan; Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; James
ONeill; W.C. Fields; Al Jolson; Sophie
Tucker; Spencer Tracy; the Ziegfeld Follies;
and John Phillip Sousa and his band.
1915 With fewer traveling shows
available, the Fulton turns to vaudeville
and burlesque.
1920s Under a new owner, the Fulton
begins showing movies. Admission is 10
cents for kids and 20 cents for adults.
1931 Te Drama Club of Lancaster is
formed and begins staging plays. Artist
Charles Demuth helps design stage settings.
1952 Tere is talk that the
deteriorating Fulton will be torn
down and replaced with a parking
lot. Intelligencer Journal reporter Joe
Kingston does a series of articles about
the Fultons 100th anniversary, urging
the theatres preservation and dubbing
the venerable building Te Grand Old
Lady of Prince Street.
1957 Despite the anniversary hoopla,
business is still dismal and the Fulton
closes. In August, papers of dissolution
are fled in court. Sketches for a multi-
level parking garage are drawn, but
Lancaster Mayor Kendig Bare refuses to
issue a building permit. In October, the
Fulton reopens as Fulton Art Teatre
and a new movie screen is installed.
1959 Live theatre returns to the
Fulton from the initiative of the
Lancaster Teatre Arts Association,
a community theatre organization.
1963 Te non-proft Fulton
Foundation is organized. Nathaniel
E. Nat Hager (Hager department
store) whose great-grandfather
(Christopher Hager) built Fulton
Hall, is named president.
1964 Te still privately owned
Fulton is sold to the foundation for
$55,000 with a mere $500 down payment.
Mrs. Nathaniel (Helen) Hager and Mrs. J.
Hale (Louise) Steinman organize a fund-
raising variety show starring Hermione
Gingold, Dina Merrill, Chita Rivera and
Zachary Scott. Many civic organizations
assist the Fulton with regular fundraising
performances including Te Junior
League and the Kiwanis Club.
1965 Lancaster Opera Workshop
stages a production of Faust. Lancaster
Symphony Orchestra season is
moved from McCaskey High School
Auditorium to the Fulton under the
direction of Louis Vyner.
1968 Actors Company of Pennsylvania is
organized and becomes a primary tenant.
1969 Te Fulton is named a National
Historic Landmark. Tadpole Players, a
childrens theatre group, is formed.
1971-72 Te Fulton Summer
Repertory Company is formed. Franklin
& Marshall College drama department
professor-director Hugh Evans is artistic
director; and the Company features a
primarily F&M student cast, including
future stage/screen/television star Treat
Williams.
Backstage workers are referred to as stage crew, due to the fact that many early stagehands were former sailors.
They were particularly adept at tying knots and rigging fying scenery.
Before wireless headsets were invented, stage crew members would communicate cues to one another using whistles.
To this day it is considered bad luck to whistle onstage as you might inadvertently cue a piece of scenery to come in on top of you.
Fulton Theatre seating capacity is 668.
The Fulton produces six Mainstage Series plays and musicals, four one-hour-long Family Series musicals, and the
Ellen Arnold Groff Studio Series which features readings of new works and the fully produced play, Venus in Fur.
The Fulton operates a year-round Academy of Theatre, which provides classes and camps for acting, directing, and stagecraft.
FULTONTRIVIA
FULTONHISTORY
1973 Fulton Opera House Guild is
formed. Te theatre celebrates its 100th
Anniversary as a legitimate theatre.
Travelogue Series begins, and later is
sponsored by Lancaster Lions Club.
1976 John Housemans Te Acting
Company in residence at the Fulton.
Patti LuPone and Kevin Kline star in
Te Robber Bridegroom.
1978 Michael Endy is hired to direct
Fultons childrens theatre company,
Fulton & Company, and replaces the
longtime Tadpole Players.
1983 Te Fulton hires Kathleen
Collins as the theatres frst full-time
artistic director and of cially becomes a
professional regional theatre, entering
into an agreement with Actors Equity
Association.
1994-95 After a capital campaign,
the Fulton is closed for a $9.5 million
renovation. It reopens in 95.
1995-96 Te Fulton Teatre
Company merges with Actors Company
of Pennsylvania.
1999 Michael D. Mitchell is hired
as the Fultons second artistic director.
During his tenure, attendance increases
76 percent.
21ST CENTURY
2002 All mainstage productions are
produced under contract with Actors
Equity Association. Te theatre
celebrates its 150th anniversary season.
2003 Te Fulton receives the frst ever
Outstanding Restoration award from the
League of Historic American Teatres.
Tis award recognizes the impact that
a restoration has on the community in
subsequent years. Te runner up is the
New Amsterdam Teatre renovated by
the Walt Disney Company on New Yorks
42nd Street. Fulton inaugurates Family
Teatre Series with an endowed gift from
Barbara and Charles Eichmann.
2008 At a White House ceremony,
the Presidents Committee on the Arts
and the Humanities awards a 2008
Coming Up Taller Award to the Fultons
Youtheatre program, under the direction
of Barry Kornhauser.
2009 Marc Robin hired as Fultons
third artistic director. A production
of Les Misrables breaks all records for
income and attendance.
2014 Every show in the 2013-2014
season sets new ticket sales record for
its respective time slot, including Les
Misrables which outperformed the 2009
version by 16 percent.
The Fulton
has been earning standing ovations for
162 years.
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A
rich history flls the Historic Fulton Theatre with many
theatrical memories and entertaining ghost stories.
Named for one of Lancasters most famous
sons, Robert Fulton, the Fulton has gone through many
renovations while remaining one of the oldest
continuously operating theatres in America.
In 1852, the Fulton Hall was
commissioned by Christopher Hager, who
is known for Hagers Department Store
on King Street. Constructed on the
site of Lancasters pre-Revolutionary
jail, Fulton Hall was a fat-foored
hall that served as a community
meeting space.
The frst renovation occurred in
1873 and which inspired the
European-styled opera house
that is seen throughout the
building today. The original
seating arrangement was one
aisle down the center with
seats on the right and left sides.
Subsequently the center aisle
was removed and replaced
with two side aisles. However,
many actors have reported
seeing a white mist fow from the
back of theatre towards the stage,
especially on opening nights. Some
say that they were seeing the spirits of
old theatre patrons walking down the
center aisle, looking for their seats.
In 1904, a second renovation was done by
Architect C. Emlen Urban who designed the
Greist Building and Watt & Shand. And in 1990,
the Fulton Opera House Foundation Board of Trustees
launched the Landmark Campaign to raise funds for a
third major renovation, and in 1995 restored the theatre to its original
Victorian elegance.
During the 1995 renovation, the legend of The Whistler was born.
A carpenter working in a stairwell between the second and third foors
that had been closed off for many years suddenly ran screaming from
the theatre and onto Prince Street. A mounted police offcer chased
him down and subdued him. When asked what was wrong he said
that a man in a light colored suit, wearing brown shoes and a straw
boater hat walked up to him and asked him for a cigarettethen he
just disappeared right before his eyes. While his employers may not
have believed his story, the carpenter had a spotless work history and
the company let him keep his job. But, he refused to return to the
theatre to fnish working on the renovation. Other theatre
employees have since reported sightings of the specter,
and some actors claim that strange whistling and
clapping coming from backstage caused them to
miss a line.
Like any good ghost story, the Fulton used
to have a creaky wooden spiral staircase
leading from stage to the green room,
where the actors can relax while not
onstage. Footsteps were sometimes
heard on the staircase, but no one
would be there. Several actors and
stagehands reported seeing a woman
in a white dress hovering around the
bottom of the steps or at the top of
them stage right. A stagehand who
had grown up in Gettysburg, PA
and was used to ghosts and ghost
stories, saw her and asked what her
name was. She said Marie.
Researchers scoured the Theatre
archives at the New York Public
Library and discovered that an actress
named Marie Cahill had performed
many times at the Fulton. She always
appeared in white, was born when Fulton
Hall became the Fulton Opera House
and died when the theater started showing
movies. Some more research revealed that she
was considered a diffcult person to work with
and might have become more famous had she not
quarreled with so many directors. So, perhaps Marie
continues to hang around the Fulton, waiting to make
her next entrance and still waiting for her big break.
Since the staircase was removed in 1995 there have been
fewer Marie sightings.
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By attending live theatre as part of our Family Series on Saturday mornings or School Day Matinee Series, a child tries on the social or procedural skills
necessary when in a public setting. Tey demonstrate a respect for a community space, and they also develop empathy, creativity, fexibility and the
capacity to read the nuances of communication. Live theatre is a transformative experience! But our programs are more than live-theatre.
CLASSES Fulton Teatre ofers a wide range of professional theatre instruction over the course of four semesters for students from age 4 through
adult. Academy theatre classes develop skills such as collaboration, communication, problem solving and creativity, to prepare young people for
performance, college and work. Whether a child wants to hone his artistic technique and skills, or you want her to cultivate her artistic literacy or self-
esteem, Fulton Teatre invites you to come and grow with us!
Sophia Steed, a 5-year Academy student who was recently seen in Les Misrables, notes that the teachers are enthusiastic about learning and make
everything fun. My Fulton classes have taught me that acting is fun! Tey have boosted my self-confdence, enabled me to make friends, and equipped
me to easily speak in front of large groups of people. I went from performing on a small platform upstairs 4 years ago to performing on the main Fulton
stage. I love my Fulton family!
One of our hottest programs is our Teen Lounge! For just $20, teens can see the Mainstage Series production and learn from a production team
member in a one-hour workshop. Te artist takes the group on a tour and shares challenges the team had in mounting the production.
INCLUSIVENESS Fulton Teatre welcomes all abilities and needs. We provide resources to students
who have medical and learning concerns and disabilities, and have worked with children with autism,
Down syndrome, ADHD, and shyness. Our motto is that every child has a need. By partnering with
the child and his family, we learn who needs encouragement to overcome reluctance to participate or
support to share the spotlight with others. We are dedicated to removing access barriers to all Fulton
programming. Financial aid is available to students who demonstrate a strong fnancial need,
and we ofer a Sensory Friendly Program for families with a child with autism or sensory challenge.
IN THE SCHOOLS Neighborhood Bridges, a critical literacy program, is a residency program
for schools and community centers. Developed by the Childrens Teatre Company of Minneapolis,
Bridges has been recognized by the US Department of Education as an efective arts integration model.
A Fulton teaching artist collaborates with the classroom teacher. Together they use storytelling,
creative writing and theatre arts strategies to turn classrooms into communities where students think
independently and work collectively. Last year, Suzanne Reed, a second grade teacher at Fritz Elementary,
shared, (my students) are stretched to create parts of stories through acting and writing and see themselves
as confdent storytellers. With the diversity of the curriculum and [the teaching artists] kid-friendly
and encouraging approach, student personalities shine and bloom in surprising ways!
COMMITTEE Our goals and priorities are transformed in response to the many dedicated voices
on our Community Engagement Advisory Committee. We need representatives from all sectors of our
community youth, parents, educators, youth providers, librarians, social services workers, administrators
and other community stakeholders. Fulton Teatre wants to be relevant to the community, and the only way
to do that is to partner with the whole city! By Jennifer Ridgway, Director of Community Engagement
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that is creating enthusiastic engaged citizens in our community.
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