Past Players numbers revisited on 47th birthday

AUBURN - A local theater company is celebrating an unusual banner birthday. The Auburn Players Community Theater turned 47 this year, and it is throwing a big bash this weekend to celebrate.

On Friday and Saturday, the Auburn Players will perform “A Musical Review - 47 Years of the Auburn Players.” The show will look back at the many musical numbers performed by Players over the years, from “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Sound of Music,” to “South Pacific” and “Oliver Twist.”

The event will also honor Auburn Players founder Sam Kennedy III, who put an add in The Citizen Advertiser newspaper in 1961 in hopes of starting a home theater.