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| Enter Stage Left Theater was started in 1982 when Paul Champlin, Mary Scarlata-Rowe, and Kelly (Westcott) Grill, attended Hopkinton High School. While students there, they participated in plays, theater competitions and musicals. Even so, they were looking for more opportunities to perform, and would spend their study halls in the music room dreaming about their own theatrical company (Paul still has a notebook full of doodles with show titles and our initial name and logo, designed by Sheryl (Papazian) Anderson). With the help of Dan Mullins, Mark Enright and Dawn (Lawrence) Anderson, they wrote and produced two one-act comedies under the show title Antics, and performed it as a fund raiser for the Hopkinton Public Library. An original musical, The Torch Singer, written by Paul Champlin and Dawn Anderson, was produced during the summer of 1984, and then revised in 1987. Activities with the group went into hiatus while everyone finished college and started their careers and families. Still, there was money sitting in a bank account, waiting to be used for another production, so in 1998, Dawn Anderson produced Painting Churches, and Enter Stage Left Theater had been reborn. The four incorporated the company and acquired 501c-3 status. They focused on small shows - cabarets, family theater, and artistic pieces - including Selections from Spoon River Anthology, Anne of Green Gables, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and several musical performances. In 2004, Paul Champlin wrote another original show (with Kelly Grill) for yet another fund raiser; this time for the Cultural Arts Alliance. The show was a musical review entitled Lullaby of Broadway. The following year he wrote Hooray for Hollywood, and in 2006 ESL presented Bye, Bye Birdie. Enter Stage Left's supporters have grown from four to over four hundred families. With a studio at 30 Main Street, Hopkinton, the theater offers classes and hosts intimate shows conducive to the cozy space. Along with the musicals and straight plays, they produce ESL Live!, a totally original Saturday Night Live type show, complete with sketches, videos and musical guests. |
| 30 Main Street Hopkinton, MA 01748 508-435-2114 |