{"id":10635,"date":"2024-05-28T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:28:52","slug":"spotlight-on-lee-and-dolly-butz-psf-2024-season-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/press\/spotlight-on-lee-and-dolly-butz-psf-2024-season-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On Lee and Dolly Butz, PSF 2024 Season Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Bill Hoblin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PSF is delighted Lee and Dolly Butz are the 2024 Season Sponsors and honored and humbled that they have been involved with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival since its inception in 1991.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1981 Fr. Gerard Schubert, OSFS (PSF founder and founding chairperson of then Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales Theater and Speech Department), observed Lee taking photos of the construction of the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts. Lee was there because his company, Alvin H. Butz, was the builder. Fr. Schubert asked if he ever shot photos of theatre productions? Lee hadn\u2019t but took on the challenge to shoot professional quality theatre photos in color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee began photographing every Act One and PSF play, every year. In addition to donating his time and skill, Lee also covered the cost of developing and printing the photos that hung in the Labuda lobby before every play. Until last year, Lee\u2014an Honorary Director of the PSF Board of Directors\u2014was PSF\u2019s official photographer and shot the dress rehearsals of every PSF production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee started working for his father in his general contracting company while in high school. He was interested in journalism and wanted to be a baseball player, but his father declared that after high school, Lee would attend Lehigh University to study civil engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was different in those days; I wasn\u2019t given a choice,\u201d Lee reminisced. \u201cThe first thing I did was to check to see if Lehigh had a baseball team.\u201d Lucky for him, they did. Lee loved baseball and played in high school, college, and in the Army. Lee admits to being very competitive. He believes his competitiveness, along with concentration on performing (a skill he picked up while playing baseball) translated very well to running a business. Plus, if playing baseball professionally didn\u2019t work out, he could always fall back on civil engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee sees many parallels between playing baseball and the theatre. In baseball there are practices, and in theatre there are rehearsals. Both have a focus on fundamentals and working on specific details to perfect them. \u201cGetting ready for a game is very similar to getting ready for opening night,\u201d he notes. And like in baseball, there are stars and there are supporting players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee and Dolly Butz have been married for 68 years. \u201cDolly is a doting mother, grandmother and great-grandmother,\u201d says Lee. \u201cShe is the glue that holds our family together and she\u2019s seen virtually every production at PSF, and especially enjoys the musicals and comedies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past 30 years, Dolly has been involved with the Fund to Benefit Children and Youth Inc. as a board member and treasurer. Operation Santa Claus is her creation and every Christmas they provide gifts for more than 700 children who are under the care of Lehigh County Children and Youth Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alvin H. Butz was the Festival Sponsor for PSF\u2019s Inaugural Season in 1992, and the company has been a Production Sponsor every year since. This year, though, Lee and Dolly chose to personally be the Season Sponsors. This change is special for them. \u201cDolly and I feel very close to PSF,\u201d says Lee. \u201cWe are proud to participate and support all of the great productions that PSF has done over the years and especially at this stage of our lives. Theatre is very important. We want to make sure our participation reflects that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked if he has a favorite PSF production, Lee says, \u201cThere have been so many over the years. I\u2019m a fan of Evita and I saw Les Mis\u00e9rables five times! Patrick Mulcahy\u2019s production of The Winter\u2019s Tale was amazing, as was anything Dennis Razze directed. While trying to shoot The Mystery of Irma Vep in 2007, I was laughing so hard, my hands were shaking.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When considering the future of the Festival, Lee would like to see PSF continue on its current trajectory. \u201cOne of the joys has been the quality, and the constant increase in quality year after year. We have recognized award-winning talent. So many great actors keep coming back like Jim Helsinger, Christopher Patrick Mullen, and Greg Wood\u2026just to name a few. It\u2019s a big positive, a big draw.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee continues, \u201cPSF is one of the great assets of our region. It enhances the quality of our lives and is an excellent measure of the culture of our community. It is also a terrific example of how diverse and desirable our community is. Our support of PSF goes beyond supporting a play each season; it is contributing positively to the entire region and making it a better place to live.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bill Hoblin PSF is delighted Lee and Dolly Butz are the 2024 Season Sponsors and honored and humbled that they have been involved with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival since its inception in 1991.\u00a0 In 1981 Fr. 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