180 plus seats is plenty for a theater to do well - Southside Theatre Guild in Fairburn can hold just under 200 and only a few of their plays each year sell out. Venues like Sams Auditorium or the auditoriums at schools are larger because they house larger functions, like band and chorus recitals, which have the parents and family members of every child in band or chorus attending, and graduations. if you ask any high school drama teacher how full the auditoriums are for theater, they tell you it's between 100 and 200 people. A good size crowd but nowhere near capacity.

That hall is so big because the choral and drama dept. at Sandy Creek worked their tails off to get it for years. When I was in school there we had to perform in the cafeteria...or find a school to let us come in a use their facility. We dedicated thousands of hours to fundrasing and working to get it built. It took 10 years for that school to get an auditorium.

You can't compare it with what Tyrone is trying to do. Yes, it would be nice to see Tyrone "grow up a little" but the vison that some of our leaders seem to have is very different from what the citizens want. You can't be a cultural center if your sold out to all the development the area can handle.

Protect the dead?! What a silly notion. Let's do a better job protecting the living first.

When I'm gone you survivors would do well to have a nice theater built over me. I'd play one of the apparitions in Macbeth better than any living actor ever has. It'd sure beat lying next to a Best Buy parking lot, watching the poor WalMart shoppers about ready to join me if they have to wait through another light.

I know what you mean about the one at Best Buy and I agree, when you are dead, your dead. But I think it is a very sad statement that we don't respect the dead here any more than we do. I feel that there should be a law passed that you can't build within so many hundred feet of a cemetary. I went walking in the one in Tyrone one day looking at the old Confederate graves. Next to the some of the survey stakes is a very small little grave. Who ever's children are buried there, didn't have enough money for a marker. The chidren were buried during the 20's. One little child was one day old and the other, just over a year. The parent only had the money to put cement over the little graves as a marker and scribble the names and dates in while it was wet. There were also two little marbles pushed in the cement, it might have been the older childs only toy. Anyway, it brought home to me how much someone loved their babies and left their little graves in a Church cematry, thinking at least it was a respectfull, safe place. I wonder what they would think if they knew what we are doing to them now, building almost on top of them. There are some things that should not be done.