My sister and I went to the Firehouse Theater to see a production of "Bat Boy: The Musical" (I had bought the CD off of Amazon as a joke, and couldn't believe someone was putting it on locally ... how could we not go?). The theater is an old converted firehouse on Broad Street, and it retains a lot of the original ambiance, let me tell you. The stage is small, the seating nothing more than folding chairs on raised platforms off on one side, and there isn't much room to maneuver at all. How the actors manage is a feat beyond me.
But the smallness of the facility adds a touch of coziness as well, and it reminded me a lot of the small productions I saw at college. If something else that I'd like to see ever comes to the Firehouse Theater (though in over a year, there hasn't been anything up my alley), I'd go again.
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