To the editor:

Last week at dress rehearsal for “Prairie Fire,” the Kansas Summer Theatre show, the cast was informed that Sunday’s performance of our show was canceled, due to very low ticket sales. I can’t tell you how disappointing that was for the cast when we had just spent five hours rehearsing.

Lawrence cannot be a “city of the arts” if its citizens do not patronize the arts. Therefore, I invite you to come see “Prairie Fire” this weekend. It is written by the most brilliant professor at Kansas University, and directed by the most talented person I have ever met, and most importantly, it stars a cast of talented young students that I am so proud to call my friends.

I can’t promise that you will enjoy the play more than “Men In Black II,” but I can promise an evening of passionate characters, girls dressed as ponies who dance with castanets, and enough pioneer spirit to make you want to skip the condo in Key West this year and break out your Conestoga wagons.

It is so very important to support the performing arts, and this is a play that the sons and daughters of Kansas need to see.

Hannah Ballou

Lawrence