Little theatre greenville sc
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Grants and sponsorships help with the cost of mainstage plays, as well as the schools program, called Greenville Theatre on Tour. They prepare a children’s play – with a set, costumes and props – stuff it all into a van, drive to the school, set up, perform for 300 to 500 children, strike the set, and rush back to the theater to help out. The theater also has a full-time, six-person acting troupe that travels to as many as 75 elementary schools a year throughout the Upstate. Expansive plays, like “Mary Poppins,” can cost $100,000 to produce. The theater, located in Heritage Green, has 600 seats. Back in the ’50s, it didn't confuse people. “There’s nothing little about the Greenville Theatre.
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New York City was “big theater,” he says. When regional and local theaters sprung up in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, he says, they were called “little” theaters to differentiate them from Broadway. “The theater hasn't been ‘little’ since the 40s,” Allen says. When the McCallas arrived, and until about two years ago, the theater was The Greenville Little Theatre. (Sam caught the acting bug, too, and works at the Barter Theatre in Virginia.) So, they set their sights on stable jobs and found them at the Greenville theater.
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They were working in Dallas when their theater troupe disbanded, and their 4-year-old son, Sam, was ready to start school. Greenville wasn’t necessarily part of the script.
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They celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary on May 1. A Greenville native, Allen was in the graduate program after earning his bachelor’s at Wofford College. Suzanne and Allen have been “on the bus” since they met at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. It's about time for me to get off the bus.” “A lot of theater people needed to get off the bus, and you don't get off the bus because you can’t,” Suzanne says.