Lakewood Pictures Wanted
April 26th, 2009 Posted in Lakewood, NewsIf anyone has pictures from their days at Lakewood they’d be willing to share, send them as jpg files along with any identifying text to:
mail(at)thom-bray.com
By sending me the pictures you are giving me permission to post them on this website.
Thom
2 Responses to “Lakewood Pictures Wanted”
By terry on Aug 29, 2010
I can’t believe I came across this website. I was a local when Lakewood Playhouse was open under the direction of Bob Buchanan and i saw at least 50 % of the shows during those years. i fondly remember many of the actors, some of whom came back for multiple seasons. I was a high school student and I wanted to be an apprentice there. I even enquired about the possibility but got cold feet and didn’t pursue it. In my eyes, the folks there seemed so talented and above me. I parked outside what remains of the park a few years ago and walked in. I was probably trespassing on private property but it was quite an experience. Sadly, the theatre was a shell with holes in the roof and the doors smashed in. Many of the other park buildings are in worse shape. Lakewood was a special place and it is sad to know what has become of it.
Anyway, I think Godspell was the last Buchanan show and I saw it multiple times. I remember Oliver, Babes in Arms, Camelot, Irma La Douce, Paint Your Wagon, Fiddler, Cabaret, Charlie Brown, I Do I Do, Fantasticks, Follies, Annie Get Your Gun, Mame, Damn Yankees, Molly Brown, Anything Goes, The King and I, Once Upon A Mattress, South Pacific, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Music Man, La Mancha, Sound of music, Pajama Game, Funny Girl, Gypsy, Company, Showboat, Zorba, and SeeSaw, in no particular order. There were no shows for a dew years and I was thrilled when it reopened, but it was never the same. I also saw many of the benefits that were done each year. I often wonder what happened to the many talented people who appeared there.
My first memory of Lakewood was when I was an elementary student and my mom took my cousin and I to see “The Absence of a Cello” with Hans Conreid and Ruth McDevitt. THen it was a few years till the Buchanan era. Remember his silly Pepsi commercials at intermission?
My mom and Jane Towle were friendly, both being Tamaqua natives, and Jane produced a book of Lakewood History at one point. I have left the area and I don’t know what happened to Jane. She was a repository of Lakewood History.
Thanks for the chance to stroll down memory Lane!! Hopefully others will post and jog memories.
By Lakewood71 on Aug 29, 2010
There’s a website for everything, right?
In the Bob years I was in West Side Story, Kismet, 1776, My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! There were more, but I can’t remember. So it’s possible, even likely, you saw me onstage.
I was there during the flood on the 70s.
Glad you found us. If you have pictures, email me!
TB