 |  | In this email we mark the passing of one of Cape Rep’s founding members, Bud Rowles, and honor his contribution to Cape Rep Theatre. Most of us knew Bud as a skilled actor and vocalist, with a terrific sense of humor, a generous heart, and impish streak dressed with a grin and eye twinkle. Bud performed with us at the Old Sea Pines Inn in the early years while we raised the funds and laid the legal groundwork for the theater’s home in Nickerson Park, formerly Camp Monomoy. His performance as Marius in The Road to Mecca was astounding. And he literally sang for Cape Rep’s supper in all those early musical revues called Dressing Them Up, designed by Bob Troie and Scott Storr, that raised money for the renovation of the Camp Chapel into our Outdoor Theater and the Camp Dining Hall into our Indoor Theater. Bud performed in several Cape Rep productions in the ensuing years including lending his beautiful tenor voice to A Little Night Music, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Sunday in the Park with George.
But what is less well known about Bud is that he not only sang for this campus, he donated his engineering design skills and plans for the renovation of the Outdoor Theater, parking areas, pathways, and numerous other projects, small and large, that got us into our Indoor Theater. He literally lifted us up with his career skills and big heart, and brought us through the front doors of this place we call home.
We are quite certain that our world was a better place with Bud Rowles in it.
Bud’s signature song from those revues:
The world was my oyster
But where was the pearl
...something was missing
But dreams can come true
That something is no one but you
--Janine M. Perry
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