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Article: Woodminster Summer Musicals opens 42nd season
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- Oakland Tribune
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- July 2, 2008
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For some people, rainy days can spell ruined picnics, cancelled
baseball games and waterlogged shoes, but for Harriet Schlader,
managing director of Woodminster Summer Musicals, one rainy day in
particular meant a couple thousand angry theatergoers staring her
down.
"September 9, 1972," Schlader said, laughing. "It's indelible in
my mind. It was the most traumatic thing. We had a big house and it
started pouring and didn't stop. We had to cancel it, so we had a
lot of people yelling."
The first and only rainout in the theater's history is still
fresh in her memory with opening night for Woodminster's 42nd season
right around the corner.
But since that day more than 35 years ago when a soggy ...