Donors left sentiments like “I don’t want to lose our small-town theater!” and “Butch and Robert do a fab job. Certainly a treasure for this little town.”
Or even more succinctly: “THE EMMAUS THEATRE ROCKS!!”
Plenty of the Emmaus Theatre’s faithful following agreed, enough that the theater’s GoFundMe page reached its goal in a matter of days.
Theater owners Robert Audibert and Butch Rossetti posted the crowd-funding page on the business’ Facebook page April 24, and by April 27, the $10,000 needed to keep the theater open during the coronavirus shutdown was raised. The current amount raised $10,521 for the century-old theater. Audibert was blown away by the support.
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