8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL AUGUST 23, 2017
Cottage Theatre gears up for 2018 season
Every
year,
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tage The-
atre plays
a game with the community in
an effort to keep a secret. Last
year, it was a guessing game of
hats. A prior year saw a game of
scrabble. It happens in August,
just a few months prior to when
decisions about casting and
costumes have to be made. Just
before volunteer organizers get
down to organizing and weeks
before show scheduling takes
place. All of these activities in-
volve volunteers, cast, crew and
By Caitlyn May
people in general. People, who
may or may not be able to keep
a secret and so, the theatre in-
vites sponsors and donors to the
theatre after hours for a cocktail
hour and a game so they can be
the fi rst in the community to
fi nd out what shows are on tap
for the following season.
"We work on a calender year,
not a school year," said Susan
Goes, executive director of
the Cottage Theatre who said
season ticket renewals begin
on October 1 and it's helpful if
theater-goers know what shows
they're buying tickets for, hence
the early announcement last
Wednesday.
The 2018 season will kick-
off on February 2 with "Nois-
es Off." "It's a farce within a
farce," Goes said. The plot has
a troupe of actors backstage
handling one crisis of stage af-
ter another. It's set to run until
February 18.
From April 6 through April
29, contemporary theatre lov-
ers will be happy to know,
Elle is coming to town. Cottage
Theatre will put on "Legally
Blonde: the Musical."
For the more traditional the-
atre lovers, the season's third
show, Arthur Miller's "The
Crucible" delivers. "It's a still
relevant drama I wish wasn't
still relevant," Goes said. A
traditional assignment in high
school, "The Crucible" focuses
on the Salem witch trials and
the accusations and betrayals
that came along with it. It will
run June 8 through June 24.
August will see the world
premiere of "Treehouse," the
winner of the American Asso-
ciation of Community Theatre's
contest. It was chosen from 300
entries that were eventually
whittled down to six winning
plays. The play, written by Joe
Musso of Alabama, focuses on
17-year-old Johnny between
his junior and senior year of
high school when he sudden-
ly exclaims he has the mind of
a 53 year old, turns around his
grades and develops a love of
the Bard. "It's one of those plays
where the plot unfolding is part
of the fun," Goes said.
Following "Treehouse," mu-
sical lovers will get another shot
to see a production in Cottage
Grove when the theatre puts on
"Shrek: the musical." A family
Airport
friendly show, Goes describes
the Pixar adaptation as full of
bright colors and fun. It begins
October 5 through the 28.
Lastly, Cottage Theatre will
put on "The Fantasticks" a 1960
musical classic beginning No-
vember 30 and running through
December 16.
The formula for this year fol-
lows that of years passed: three
musicals, three straight plays.
For more information, or to
purchase tickets for the sea-
son, please contact the Cottage
Theatre at (541) 942-8801 or
visit them at cottagetheatre.org.
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Community leaders gathered on Tuesday, August 16 to open the airport welcome center.
three years and eight months later,” said Nadine.
While there is a bathroom and a place for pilots to relax after a fl ight, Nadine sees the building, that is replacing the outhouse that once
stood in its place as a gateway for pilots to come and explore the city of Cottage Grove.
“Pilots fl y to eat, play and stay,” said Nadine. “I’m excited for the people to come in and experience Cottage Grove. Cottage Grove has
a lot to offer aviation.”
Travis Palmer, the executive director of the Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Commerce, believes that getting pilots to land in town will
have a signifi cant economic impact.
“Let me run through a scenario: a pilot chooses to come to Cottage Grove. They fl y in, they buy gas, there’s a gas tax, they stay at a
hotel, often, because they’ll make an overnight out of it. So that’s a room tax for Cottage Grove.
“They’ll go into town and shop and go to restaurants, there’s an immediate economic impact from that, and then they go back and tell
their friends. We have events that are being hosted here now because we have better facilities to welcome them. It’s just full circle,” said
Palmer.
Palmer is excited about the opportunities that this will bring and about its historic nature. This is the fi rst time in Oregon that a com-
munity has raised the entirety of the money for a building like this. Another group of people that are excited about the opportunities are
those from Travel Lane County. Natalie Inouye, the Vice President of tourism marketing at the organization is excited for what is to come.
“Aviation tourism is really important to us and it is a county wide thing. But what they’ve done here is really special,” said Inouye. She
noted that she thinks that this can become not just a place to enjoy a “$100 dollar lunch.” This is a common phrase in the aviation commu-
nity that is when a pilot fl ies to a city for lunch but does not stay and so they are paying for the gas and the meal.
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it’s not really helping the economy in the same way as when they
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