CULLMAN, Ala. – Cullman Community Theatre (CCT), after reforming in 2018 and putting on successful productions of “The Music Man” (2018) and “Oklahoma!” (2019), is getting ready for its third season, and has invited the community’s theatrical types to come find out more at a meeting at the Cullman County Museum at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, when Director Wayne Cook will “announce upcoming projects and introduce the Cullman Community to membership in CCT. It is the hope of the steering committee and board of directors that CCT would be able to branch out this coming year to reach new people interested in building theatre in Cullman.”
Cook is holding his production plans close to the vest, but he likes big cast shows that can involve a wide cross section of the community, so CCT is recruiting volunteers of all ages as actors, musicians, stage crew, technical crew and others.
Cook previously told The Tribune, “I feel strongly that community theater is an important part of a community like this. It fills a need, fills a gap (with something) that we currently don’t have. And, with all the things that have happened in this community: the growth, the economic expansion that we’ve seen–we’ve seen growth in so many arenas; that’s the last link, in my view, of what we really need to explore. And the arts in general, but I specifically come at it from a theater perspective.
“You go to a lot of communities: you go to Decatur, you go to Florence, you go to Huntsville (which) has tons of opportunities for community theater. Birmingham has gobs of opportunities for community theater. Even places like Arab and Guntersville have community theater groups. We really need an opportunity for adults and children, and students and people to work alongside each other to do productions in the community.
“This would be an organization that would–it would obviously be a collaboration with the schools, but this is not a school-sponsored thing. This will be a community-sponsored thing, and so it’ll have a little different approach, in the sense that we’ll open it up to all ages, all people that want to be a part.”
At a glance
Cullman Community Theatre information meeting
Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Cullman County Museum, 211 Second Ave. NE, Cullman
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