Chicago Sun-Times: Sometimes you can go home again, and something wonderful happens.
That’s one way to describe the journey of six Thornridge High School alumni who’ve returned to Chicago to found The Collective Theatre. The new African-American theater company will raise the curtain on its debut production, “HooDoo Love,” beginning Sept. 22 at the Athenaeum Theatre.
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I think this is very amazing how alumni works to improve their home. It seems definitely worthy of doing it for future students at Thornridge High School. Also, since Chicago is another city for theatrical art, I think this is very interesting and effective to have another theater. Also, this reminds me of CMU's alumni who had worked and contributed to the foundation of many theaters in Pittsburgh. i really want to applaud them for their contribution and effort towards developing their society.
It's always great to see people go out and do great things, but it's even better to watch them come back and give back to the place they came from. I like that there's such an equal say in the operation of their company. My only worry for them is what happened with PigPen; they started with an equal say in everything and then the bigger they got, the more specialized each position became. Still a successful company, just not quite with the same group mentality that they began with.
We just talked about something like this in our tech mgmt class. We were discussing the chain of command within theatre companies and whether or not "round table" systems truly work as they are planned to. For a while, they seem to be fine and dandy, but eventually someone has to rise above the rest to take some sort of command.
That being said, it's always great to hear about companies like this that form from a group of friends who are all passionate for the same goal. Sometimes these companies are the most successful, not only financially, but in the happiness of their members.
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