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Good Things Are Happening
by BILL BOWMAN
e timing couldn't be better for the
local theater scene. Good things are
happening. e Cape Fear Regional
eatre has a new artistic director, and
Fayetteville has a new live theater venue.
We are "moving on up!"
is being the case, I'm yielding my
editorial space this week for the awareness
and promotion of the newest cultural
venue coming to our community. is will
be an exciting week for Fayetteville. On
ursday, after an absence of more than
three decades, the curtain will rise on the
Fayetteville Dinner eatre at Bordeaux,
which is returning to the Fayetteville,
Fort Bragg and Cumberland County
community. July 27-29 the Ramada Plaza
Convention Center and Up & Coming
Weekly, in conjunction with Purple Door
Productions, will present the wonderful
and delightful romantic musical comedy
"e Fantasticks." is is one of the
most popular and continuous-running
musicals in the world. It is the longest-
running off-Broadway play of all time.
e Fayetteville Observer's Rodger
Mullen wrote an excellent feature on
the show and the production company
in the Family Life section of Sunday's
newspaper. You can read it here: http://
www.fayobserver.com/news/20170723/
dinner-theater-returns-to-fayetteville.
So, no more four-hour round trips to
Greensboro. Hallelujah for that!
"e Fantasticks" is being billed as "A
unique theater experience." And, it will be.
I promise.
See the details below and
check it out for yourself at www.
fayettevilledinnertheatre.com. We hope to
see you there. ank you for reading Up &
Coming Weekly.
BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, UP &
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