Thanks for all the entertainment over the years, and the very nice look back! Leave it to Disney to create one of the most unique entertainment venues of all time, and then just close it down without a thought! At least it had a very nice, lengthy run.

The amazing collection of fans who are devastated by the loss of the club is perhaps the greatest tribute there can be to the incredible job that you all did, night after night, at making those characters come alive, and keeping everything interesting!

I do miss the (semi) early days with Art, Phil, Phran, Doug … thankfully I have lots of video tapes of them to remind me. And all the newer faces over the years still managed to keep the entertainment coming!

Mandora would have vanished somewhere between 1993 and 1994, since she was still around when I vacationed at WDW in ‘93, but gone when I moved here in ‘94.

Thanks again, and I hope Canada is going wonderfully for you!

Thanks for such a wonderful post. I have just returned from my 20th trip to WDW where I was once again, relentless in letting CMs know my feelings towards the AC. I even (pleasantly yet with tounge in cheek) told one about how much money I had saved by stocking my hotel roojm with beverages from the outside world instead of spending my time and money at the AC.

In keeping up my little contribution to the campaign to bring the AC back to life, I would like to as you; To whom might I address a well-spoken letter or email sharing my feelings towards the Adventurers Club?

I consider myself very lucky not only for being one of the few who were in the library for the FINAL HOOPLA, but for the opportunity to shake hands with your fellow CMs, saying to them and you as well with as much sincerity as I can possibly muster: “THANK YOU FOR ENTERTAINING US SO VERY WELL.”

Again, any direction you can give me so I can lend my support towards the survival of the AC would be great.

Thanks
Henry T. Machuga
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201-220-9584
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This is wonderful.

The best job I ever had was working along-side you and the gang mentioned above. You have mentioned so many things and people who have helped shape my perspective on theatre, performing and comedy. Since my last performance at the Club, I have praised “the golden years” at the Adventurers Club as simply “the perfect” training ground for any actor who want to understand comic timing and mining a character for details.

I knew from my audition that it was the best audition I had ever been to because it was not a 2-minute monologue and you’re out the door. Instead, it was a monologue, two songs, cold readings, multiple improv scenes and THEN the callbacks! Wow! I knew that that was the job I wanted, and my first rehearsal with you and Paula and Tim and Art confirmed my suspicions that I had won the lottery!

I have learned enormous amounts from each of you, but you (and few others) were key to my fascination and growing love of the place.

When you get to be one of the few who have won the role hundreds of others covet, I think it makes you appreciate your good timing, great training and fate as an artist. I truly appreciate my four years at the Adventurers Club and will continue to see it as the pinnacle of my performing career, as well as the springboard for all my future theatrical endeavors (especially those yet to come).

As a teacher, we are told from the beginning that because we touch so many lives and the pay-off for our students is usually years down the line, we cast a giant shadow. So, too, is your part in the lives of the cast members and guests that you have touched. Your shadow is far greater than I think you can imagine as you have inspired many and, frankly, changed the lives of co-workers and so, so many guests whose names you will never know. The letters I have seen online ooze love as the Club became an oasis, a harbor, a springboard, and a place of inspiration and epiphany.

You are quite the George Bailey, my friend. You will be rewarded in Heaven (just as I know you already are), but I’m sure you’ll have to wait another forty years for that.

[You better get a speech ready.]

With the deepest respect,

~ Bob Dutton

Hsoolagnuk!

Thanks for so many inside and great memories — from an adventurer from the beginnings.

Best regards and good luck,

HAL

Sigh. I will always have my memories. I’m here in Louisville, KY now, and am toasting to a great run!

Sweet post. Maria and I and the gang from 1991-1992 miss you! I hope you’re doing well in the frozen tundra!

Rusty

After I had auditioned for the PI folks in Atlanta in 1988, I mentioned to Kris, living in LA, that the audition tour would be coming his direction. If I recall his very subdued response was something like, “Disney? Um,really? You really want to work at a theme park?”

Seventeen years later, he was bidding adieu to the AC, while I, after opening the Comedy Warehouse (book musical, anyone?), had bounced from MGM to Universal to Sea World and eventually bounced right out of the business…guess I showed him.

It’s incredible to consider how many lives he and his cohorts at the club touched, how many home videos he must be a part of, and how much hair he lost during those years. Don’t sell yourself short, Professor. You were a major reason for the club’s success and cult-like status, not to mention being a large influence at the Actors’ Equity negotiations. I was always very proud to tell people my big brudda worked at the one and only Adventurers Club.