Theatre in the Square, one of Atlanta’s oldest troupes, has decided to close its doors.
The 30-year-old Marietta company sent an e-mail to supporters late Monday announcing that it was shutting down operations immediately, and that it would not accept a $30,000 emergency contribution approved by the Marietta City Council last week.
“After three days of board deliberations and financial analysis, we have decided that it is not feasible for us to finish our current season or launch a 31st season,” board chair Mike Russell said in the e-mail. “We simply do not have the money.”
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Mel
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This is sad to see and in a 'better' world - a world that does not worship the almighty dollar - would not happen.
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Exactly, because the landlord wouldn't want to be paid rent, employees would not expect pay checks, suppliers would give them whatever they required, the government wouldn't demand taxes. . .
Who is John Gault? - He's the successful business owner who didn't want to play by the new 'Law of the Land' so he closed up shop, packed up his stuff and left. He was joined by many other successful business owners who did the same. They stayed away until the government begged them to return and repealed the law.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Exactly, because the landlord wouldn't want to be paid rent, employees would not expect pay checks, suppliers would give them whatever they required, the government wouldn't demand taxes. . .
Nailed it.
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In this case, the landlord and Marietta City Councilman, who owns most of the property on the square, will be hurting himself, because many of the restaurants and shops on the square benefited from the folks visiting the theatre, and may have to close down themselves. Also, the County stopped helping the Theatre in the past due to the orientation of the founder. The Theatre also made some poor decisions along the way.
markdavd, on 20 March 2012 - 12:12 PM, said:
Exactly, because the landlord wouldn't want to be paid rent, employees would not expect pay checks, suppliers would give them whatever they required, the government wouldn't demand taxes. . .
Mel
------------------------------------------------------- An optomist may not get there any faster, but he'll enjoy the trip more If you believe you can, you can --- and if you can't, at least you believed you could!
AustinPlantation, on 20 March 2012 - 01:42 PM, said:
In this case, the landlord and Marietta City Councilman, who owns most of the property on the square, will be hurting himself, because many of the restaurants and shops on the square benefited from the folks visiting the theatre, and may have to close down themselves. Also, the County stopped helping the Theatre in the past due to the orientation of the founder. The Theatre also made some poor decisions along the way.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
From a 1995 POST
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Wysong won re-election this fall despite the international controversy stirred up by a resolution he wrote declaring Cobb officially opposed to “gay lifestyles.” Voters here are very conservative—they voted 75 percent for Bush in 1988—very white, very suburban, very devout, very polite, very suspicious of concepts like fajitas and gyros, and, since November 8, perhaps a little cocky. “We’re the power now,” Wysong says. “These suburbs, built on white flight, are only going to become more conservative and more powerful. New York has been deposed. It just won’t accept it.”
The resolution, and Cobb’s subsequent cutoff of all arts subsidies, came about, curiously enough, after an ex-politician complained to Wysong about the funding of Terrence McNally’s play Lips Together, Teeth Apart at Marietta’s Theatre in the Square. Ironically, area dramaturges had always felt that the theater was excessively partial to fluff like Smoke on the Mountain and The 1940's Radio Hour. Furthermore, Wysong had never seen or read McNally’s play—which happens to have no gay characters.
Riograce, on 20 March 2012 - 06:01 PM, said:
I'm sure you can back that up with documentation.
Mel
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