March 28, 2024
Mark your calendars for this year’s Spring Follies, scheduled for Saturday, April 13, and Sunday April 14, in the Corron Community Development Center on Laurel Ridge Community College’s Middletown Campus. Show times are 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on the 13th, and 2 p.m. on the 14th.
The variety show is a long-running Laurel Ridge tradition, started in the 1970s by Professor Emerita Andrea Ludwick, who still helps put on the Follies. This year’s theme is “Be Happy!” and will feature performances by children and adults of all ages. Director Russell Rinker, who has performed as a member of Blue Man Group and in many other plays and musicals, got his start as a preschooler in The Follies.
“It’s going to be such a fun show!” Ludwick says of this year’s Follies. “The upbeat music and funny skits are certain to put everyone in a happy mood!”
Pre-show activities are scheduled to begin 1½ hours before each show, and will include facepainting, coloring, musical chairs and a selfie station. Free ice cream will also be available. Additionally, Cub Scout Pack 3 will be selling hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and drinks as a summer camp fundraiser.
Tickets are $5 at the door, with children under 5 free. All proceeds benefit the Andrea Ludwick Performing Arts Fund.
Founded in 1970, Laurel Ridge Community College is a multi-campus public institution of higher education. With three locations — Middletown, Warrenton, and Luray-Page County — the College serves eight localities in the Shenandoah Valley and northern Piedmont regions. The localities are the counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren and the city of Winchester. Laurel Ridge offers more than 75 associate degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of disciplines. Laurel Ridge also serves the business community by offering workforce preparation programs for employees and employers. Laurel Ridge serves more than 9,000 unduplicated credit students and more than 11,000 individuals in professional development and business and industry courses annually.
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