THANK YOU FOR VISITING!

Maybe theatre isn’t your passion and perhaps you find it hard to get behind preserving history in local, or ANY, form.  Think, though, how the theatre revitalization -- as a teaching theatre and a student-run performing arts theatre destination -- will help the community:  as a venue for fundraising for YOUR favorite cause, perhaps with surf movies, high school performances, movie nights, classics festivals, etc.  A 650-seat theatre is better than a car wash for fundraising needs.  Yes there are many taxes to be collected from this, performance, dining, museum, welcome-center venture.  We all win when the theatre wins.

I look forward to a time when proceeds from performances at the restored theatre can be "earmarked" to fund the restoration of San Clemente.  When we no longer need to preserve, we will begin reclaiming what has been lost.  We have lost so much and are at risk of losing even more.  We are at a time when we need to consider rebuilding the Spanish Village By-The-Sea, as well as preserving what little there is left of Ole's dream.

Little known fact offered to students of local performing arts:

				"Kept from the wrestling team because of knee injury,
a teen-age Tom Cruise auditioned and won the role of 
Nathan Detroit in his Glen Ridge, NJ high school
production of Guys And Dolls, and so began his acting career."