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Ken Dooley '49 Premiers Play About Red Auerbach
Ken Dooley ’49, who was the subject of a La Salle Alumni profile back in 2009, has his play about legendary Boston Celtics coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach titled “The Auerbach Dynasty” due to premier at the Park Theatre in Cranston, Rhode Island on Friday, April 8 running through May 1.
Dooley, a lifelong friend of Auerbach, wrote and directs the play that reveals a side of Red known only to his family and closest friends.
The play was referred to in Dooley’s La Salle prolife thusly:
“A while back, Ken Dooley '49, wrote to us about his years at La Salle and said “La Salle Academy has done a lot more for me than I have done for it over the years.” A month or two later, Ken came back to La Salle to see his school and talk about his life."
Ken Dooley ’49, who was the subject of a La Salle Alumni profile back in 2009, has his play about legendary Boston Celtics coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach titled “The Auerbach Dynasty” due to premier at the Park Theatre in Cranston, Rhode Island on Friday, April 8 running through May 1.
Dooley, a lifelong friend of Auerbach, wrote and directs the play that reveals a side of Red known only to his family and closest friends.
The play was referred to in Dooley’s La Salle prolife thusly:
“A while back, Ken Dooley '49, wrote to us about his years at La Salle and said “La Salle Academy has done a lot more for me than I have done for it over the years.” A month or two later, Ken came back to La Salle to see his school and talk about his life.
“I wasn’t an athlete or a particularly good student in my La Salle career, except possibly for English,” said Ken on his visit to the school in late November 2009 with his brother Bob. “I do remember an experience I had with Brother Paul, the director in 1949. He had filled in on an English class in which we were required to write and read a short story. When I finished mine, he looked at me and said, ‘Mr. Dooley, I don’t know in what fashion, but will make your living someday in the writing field.’”
It turns out Brother Paul’s comment was prophetic as Ken is currently writing his 38th book – a non-fiction book in concert with Boston Celtic greats K.C. Jones and Sam Jones entitled From White to Black, The Long and Painful Journey of Black Pioneers into the National Basketball Association.
Ken’s other recent projects include a one-person play based on the life of Red Auerbach entitled No One Called Him Arnold Except Dorothy Auerbach and Bob Cousy and a play based on the life of John Gordon, the last person executed in the Rhode Island entitled The Murder Trial of John Gordon . . .”
For ticket information call 401-467-7275 or purchase online at www.parktheatreri.com
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