Playhouse Square is marking a major milestone that occurred 50 years ago this week when a three-week run of a play stretched on for 2 and a half years.
CLEVELAND — Most Northeast Ohioans have a basic understanding of the history of Playhouse Square, the theaters that were targeted for demolition a half century ago only to be saved from the wrecking ball and restored into what is the largest theater district in the United States outside of New York City. But there was a pivotal part of that story that played out quietly at first, 50 years ago this week.
“It was one of the few spaces in Playhouse Square that was savable and inhabitable at the time. There was debris, desolation everywhere. It looked like bombs had dropped,” Garry recalled.
"When I brought the cast here they thought I'd lost my mind because this is a cavernous space, it's a very intimate little show,” he said. “Keep in mind, there's no money, there's no staff, so I had to use all of my students, anyone we could find to clean out the space and make it possible for an audience to come into the space.”
“Every night we counted the money to make sure there was enough money to open the next day,” Garry recalled. Word quickly spread, though, and their three-week run became six, then twelve.What was supposed to be a run of less than a month ended up lasting two and a half years. It is still the longest-running play in Ohio history. It sent a message that theatergoers were willing to come to Cleveland for shows, and the corporate community soon took note.
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