Merrimack Junior Theatre

• Merrimack Junior Theatre was started by West Elementary School music teacher Josie Walker in 1989.

• Although it was successful, Josie Walker wanted to start a new life as a grandmother and decided to close the organization in 2011.

• Merrimack Junior Theatre costumes and sets were given to

Andover Youth Services.

• 3 former Merrimack Junior Theatre board members Chris Cristoforo, Kathy Abisso, and Nancy Vogler decided, along with Andover Youth Services, to revive it in 2012 and rename it AYS Andover TheatreWorks!

• A contest to create a new logo was announced in 2012.

• AYS TheatreWorks: Rally to Me My Kinsfolk. Andover Townsman8/23/212, p.9.

See

• MJT Members to Raise Curtain on New Group. (Photo) Andover Townsman 1/26/2012, p.1.

• In a Hole in the ground there lived...a Theater Group. New Production company Gears for "Hobbit," Introduction. (photo) Andover Towsnsman 6/21/2012, p. 8.

--Leslie 18:22, February 22, 2012 (EST)--Leslie 19:56, August 29, 2012 (EDT)

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