Community Theatre deserves a new home
The Excelsior Springs Standard
Published Friday, December 8, 2006

In case you skipped past the front page for one reason or another, we’ll announce it here, as well.
The Excelsior Springs Community Theatre, after longer than we’d care to consider as a “troupe without a home,” has found a new spot to set up their stage.
And no one, save perhaps the actors and ESCT board members themselves, is happier than we are.
The new site is on South Street, across the street from the Hitch Lot directly to the north. The historic building, once part of the Albany Hotel, needs some elbow grease and TLC, but experience has demonstrated that the ESCT group has both of those commodities in large quantities.
Some might remember how much work lay ahead of the theatre group when they set up camp in the former Wyman Elementary School. The space they occupied there had a stage and a balcony, but none of the other features that eventually made the theatre such a pleasant place to watch a play.
In fact, prior to the closing of the former school building, we would have guessed that Wyman was the ideal home for a dedicated group like ESCT.
We’re not so sure anymore. The road ahead of ESCT will be a difficult one; they’re allotting a year to complete the necessary improvements, and hope to raise $100,000 to accomplish the work, but we anticipate that when the dust settles, the new building will be yet another step up from the Wyman location.
ESCT surely deserves it.

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