While no one will disclose her actual age, Barb Boger is in her 80s and still active with the Warren Players.

It’s no surprise. Boger has spent most of her life on or near the stage.

“I started in theater in high school,” she said. “While in high school, I sang with the PYFA Players – they sang Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. So then I went to college and really wasn’t in theater during that time.”

Over the decades, theater became a family affair for Boger. In fact, it’s where her family started.

Submitted Photos Barb Boger is still actively working with the Warren the Warren Players at more than 80-years-old.

“After college, joined the Gilbert and Sullivan Players in Philadelphia. That’s where I met my husband,” she said. “We were partners in ‘Gondaliers’ and that’s how we met in 1959 and we were married in December 1959. I was in several G&S operettas after that. We moved to Warren in 1967 and he and I were in ‘South Pacific’ that fall, right after we moved here. He was Lt. Joe Cable and I was Liat.

“And then a year or two after that, he and I directed ‘Pirates of Penzance’ for Warren Players. Since then, I’ve been involved in so many productions – ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ ‘Carousel,’ ‘Annie,’ ‘The King and I’, ‘Ttanic,’ ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,’ ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘Mamma Mia,’ ‘The Boyfriend’ directed by Chase Putnam, ‘The Secret Garden,’ ‘Sound of Music,’ ‘Kiss Me Kate,’ and now ‘Guys and Dolls’ and many others. I’ve forgotten the names!”

Boger said her most memorable moments have been the time she has spent on stage with her children.

“When we were in ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ many years ago, two of my daughters were in the show, Lorin and Gwendolyn,’ she noted. “Then my son, Paul, was in ‘Annie’ with me, and that’s always fun. He was the guy with the toothpaste, and he’s a dentist. When I was in ‘The King and I,’ my granddaughter, Ailsa Boger, was the Princess Ying Yaowalak and I played Lady Thiang. My daughter-in-law, Vivian Boger, was in a show with me many years ago in Philly as well with Gilbert and Sullivan players.”

Even Boger sometimes questions if she’s getting too old to continue, but she said her love of theater keeps her going.

“I just love theater! And I keep thinking I’m too old to be doing it but as long as I can move across the stage in a normal way, I’m going to keep doing it, as long as it’s age appropriate,” she said. “That’s what I have to be careful of now, and I recognize it – if it’s not appropriate, I won’t even think about doing it. I have to do characters/things where I can be an old person. That’s pretty much where I am now.

“I just love doing it. I never know how many more shows there are going to be that I can be a part of, so I have to pick and choose and hope that I’m still out on stage.”

The Warren Players production of “Guys and Dolls” began yesterday at the Struthers Library Theatre, dates are set through Saturday at 7 p.m. with an additional showing on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The players production of “A Christmas Carol The Musical,” featuring Boger, is set to be held over Thanksgiving weekend.