Westborough Native Starts Theater Company

Westborough native Jon Eldridge is preparing the inaugural performance of the Flyleaf Theater Company, based in Westborough in Berlin.

“It has long been a dream of mine to own my own small-scale theater company,” he told Westborough Patch in a statement.

His dream becomes a reality on June 8 when six talented singers perform Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.

Eldridge said the show is about making choices. The Flyleaf Theater website says of the show, “Through music and with no spoken word…we travel to the deck of a Spanish sailing ship in 1492, see a man who is convinced basketball is going to rescue him from a lousy life, discover a woman who marries a man of wealth and materialism just to finally realize she has nothing at all and hear the true thoughts of the cranky Mrs. Claus…[The show] will leave you with a smile on your face and the desire to give big decisions in your life an extra thought.”

The show will be performed in Berlin at the 1870 Town Hall, 12 Woodward Ave., on Friday June 8 at 8 p.m. and again Saturday, June 9 at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 and $15 and can be purchased at www.flyleaftheater.com.

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