Each week, Huntsville’s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.
The Algonquin Theatre is a gem in our downtown core. This week in Our Town, Grant’s kudos to the arts supporters who created this space where names both big and small can (and do) grace the stage.
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Grant…thanks for these great “Our Town” vignettes. They are wonderfully done and generally tug just a little at my heart strings. The Algonguin Theatre is especially close to my heart as I was Chair of Strategic Planning at the time we built the theatre. Truly heady times to be on council with then Mayor Hugh Mackenzie driving the project, CAO Walter Schmid being tasked with making the project viable and get ‘er done on time…Karin Terziano being responsible for the day-to-day details on size and colour of seats and should there be an elevator from the Green Room to the stage, should there be an Orchestra Pit …the details went on and on…and we opened on time, but as Mayor Mackenzie said, the painters were walking out the back door as the first patrons walked in on that May evening. And of course you were part of the opening night. I emceed that night but Mayor Mackenzie must have had sore ribs, as we watched our local artists, dancers, musicians, (who could forget Art Coker playing the spoons as six youngsters from the Suzuki Strings played a reel) . In my excitement of that evening, I would elbow the Mayor with “This is what its all about”. And you doing the Tom Thomson play…it was all so local….and yet so perfect…Thanks for the memories Buddy.