When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 21-year run of Lamppost Players Children’s Theater, director Sharon Redinger figured the time just might be right to lower the curtain for good.
The 21st year was 2019, and plays were not performed from 2020 to 2022. While other groups and activities were easing out of pandemic restrictions sometime during that period, Redinger wasn’t gearing back up.
“I actually wondered if we were just done,” Redinger said. “Twenty-one years is a nice run.”
Another reason it seemed like a natural ending was her agreement with the Near East Side church where practices and performances were held all those years ended after the 2019 play.
But then last February, on the first day her church held a service in a new location it had purchased after renting for 55 years, the Rev. Jim Kirk, who is an admirer of the “Chronicles of Narnia,” was referring to one of the story lines in his sermon.
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