AMERICAN THEATRE: With the grim smile of a battle-weary general, Geri Wright recalls the “clopening night” of The Legend of Georgia McBride at Arizona Theatre Company in March 2020. Expensive and already popular in previews, the show closed and opened on the same fateful night when Covid-19 demanded that ATC—like theatres all over the U.S. and the world—shut down.
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I’m glad to see Arizona Theatre Company getting back on its feet. Though their pipeline of shows between Tucson and Phoenix/Tempe has always boggled me just a little bit. Tempe and Phoenix are considered very conservative compared to Tucson, and I can see why some of the play choices between Tucson and Tempe wouldn’t match. As someone who spent my high school years in Tucson, I really am glad to see them getting back on their feet. Though I never saw and of ATC’s shows during the five years I lived in Tucson, I do have multiple people I went to high school with that have repeatedly either worked for ATC or were performers at ATC. Arizona needs a professional theatre there that isn’t just the touring shows that come through. Otherwise it just ends up being the same works over and over again, when theatre can be used to help broaden people’s horizons.
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