Opening night, he had to run around and get local talent to put on a show. As soon as motion pictures came out, he switched right over. And it was a motion picture house until it got boarded up in 1967. Backstage Partington's desk offered clues to the endless details necessary to produce theater. Yellow Post-it notes with messages and correspondence of all sorts covered it.
People call and ask about the plays, seating and buying tickets.
And back stage, the actors and director have started rehearsals. They were looking through wardrobe possibilities. We want more color. Charlie's not going to have a lot of color. McCarthy is a veteran actress who wrote and worked with the famed Second City Comedy group in Chicago for years.