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 April 16, 2005 |
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Nancy and Worth Howe Leave 20-Plus Years of Music, Memories, and Make-Believe Mayhem in the Hands of Trusted Colleagues by David Kraut Community theater, off-Broadway showcase, dance center, school: the Main Street Theatre has touched so many people in so many ways. Our annual musical productions were all benefits, supporting what I consider this Theatre's most important function - the theatrical education of our children. Over the years, hundreds of Island kids have received their basic theatrical grounding through The Main Street Children's Theatre and its "grown-up" offshoot, The Main Street Teen Theatre. And thanks to the benefit productions, no child was ever turned away due to lack of tuition. Some have gone right to Broadway, others into the city's performance and artistic high schools, and still others are doing theater in one capacity or another all across this country. But whether they continued in theater or not, all of them reaped deeper benefits over the years: exposure to theater itself (not just its techniques but its disciplines), self-confidence, community, acculturation, communication skills, love.
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