Mark Twain Tonight

September 30-October 1, 2010

Hull Fine Arts Center

7PM

An Evening with Mark Twain is patterned after Hal Holbrook’s famously successful Mark Twain Tonight!, which opened in New York at the Longacre Theatre in 1966 after years on the road touring and ran for 85 performances. It won Mr. Holbrook a Tony for Best Actor in that year. Mr. Akins created his own rendition in 1976 while teaching at The Stony Brook School and helping to found Theatre Three, a regional theatre based in Port Jefferson, Long Island. He landed the role by stepping in at the last moment for an actor who was unable to fulfill his commitment to the part. It was at this time that Head of School Jack Hall saw the show, and it was the memory of that experience that spurred him to request that Neil consider reprising the role to bring to Augusta Prep during its anniversary year.