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Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre Seeking Help After Fire
About $250,0000 in items were destroyed. The Lawrenceville theatre stored costumes and sets in a basement beneath shops on the square.
Nearly two decades worth of work was lost following a fire on Crogan Street in Lawrenceville on March 4.
The Aurora Theatre housed costumes, props and furniture for their plays in a storage space beneath some of the shops on the square. Smoke and water destroyed a majority of the collection. It took 17 years for Aurora to gather the items, valued at about $250,000.
“Let’s say you have a period piece,” said Al Stilo, Director of Sales & Marketing at Aurora Theatre. “You can’t just go get a Revolutionary War costume at Marshalls’ or Ross. You can’t just go to Walmart and get a monk’s costume.”
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The Lawrenceville community quickly came to help the theater following the fire.
“A couple of people on the square let us take some items that were salvageable, like and the Gwinnett GOP headquarters,” said a grateful Stilo. “They let us store items there.”
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But now the theater is looking for a new storage space and need help moving items.
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