Director Jennifer Bronder, left, rehearses some of the cast of the Freeport Theatre Festival's production of "The Grimsby Lads." They are from left, Lisa Camerlo as Mary Hobson, Darrrell Milstead as Bob Mitchell and Jim Knapick as John Hobson.

FREEPORT — Jennifer Bronder, Knoch High School teacher and director of its musicals and fall plays for the last 15 years, was scheduled to direct her first adult show this summer. Then the novel coronavirus changed the program.

Still, the show must go on even in the midst of a pandemic.

The Freeport Theatre Festival opened its 31st season July 10 with the original play “The Grimsby Lads.”

The play will go on at 7 p.m. this Friday, Saturday and Sunday the theater on the Steele Farm on White Cloud Road, two miles southeast of Freeport via Route 356. The building has barn doors that can be thrown wide open.

Bronder added that COVID-19 restrictions are in effect but haven't had too much of an impact on the production.

This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Thursday's Butler Eagle.