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Area 52 |
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Area
52 is the name of NRTG's warehouse and the
home-away-from home for many of NRTG's dedicated performers, crafts-persons,
and volunteers. It's where we build and store our sets. In years
past, rehearsals were also held in our warehouse space, but we are fortunate
to be able to rehearse in our peformance space -- the Cardinal O'Hara
Performing Arts Center. |
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Lost in Space |
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When
we suddenly had to move out of the Niagara Falls Convention Center in
September 2002, to making way for the Seneca-Niagara Casino we not only lost
our theater, we lost the space we used for storage of props,
costumes, sets, lighting, and sound equipment. We lost our space for
building, painting, and sewing, and for stocking our paint, lumber, tools,
and materials. We lost our rehearsal space, our place for auditions.
We lost meeting space for production confabs and Board of Directors'
meetings. We lost a lot. |
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Space - The Final Frontier |
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Before long a crew of dedicated NRTG
volunteers were feverishly transforming an
area of an old,
ramshackle warehouse loft into our new home, which
affectionately became known as "Area 51." It was short on
amenities (as anyone looking for a decent restroom or a warm cozy rehearsal
will surely recollect)...but it was home. |
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Beam Me Up, Scotty |
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With change being the only thing that stays constant in our history, soon
Area 51 was referred to in the past tense. The building was sold and
we were forced to move again. Luckily (like a cat falling from a tree)
we were able to land on our feet. The folks at Cardinal O'Hara were
gracious enough to grant use of space for our extensive costume collection.
For the rest of our....stuff....we found home in a new warehouse space we
now call Area 52. It is located off Fillmore Street in Tonawanda,
conveniently located near Cardinal O'Hara. It boasts some major
advantages over Area 51, most notably a single floor layout and a dedicated
loading dock. |
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