Pull-Tight's Junior Youth Actors Guild Meeting To Be Held 7/25

6 to 12 year olds are invited to come to the July Junior Youth Actors Guild meeting, which will be on Saturday, July 25, from 10:30am until noon. Our special guests will be Harriet Harms and Karla Kelso, who regularly interpret Pull-Tight performances for our hard of hearing patrons. They will demonstrate theatrical "signing" to the children, and "sign" short easy skits they perform. Harriet and Karla are always a treat, they put a lot of work into their programs to make them entertaining. Warming the children up before the "signing" will be teens Emily Eytchison and Meredith Locke. Call 794-8518 for more information about Jr. YAG.

The August meeting (August 29) will feature Nashville Opera with a special program just for us.

The Pull-Tight Players Youth Actors' Guild was created to give youth opportunities to learn about and experience all aspects of live theatre. We have a Junior Youth Guild for ages six to twelve, and a Teen Youth Guild for ages thirteen to eighteen.

It was 1968 when Vance Ormes, a 16-year-old BGA student, thought it was time for Franklin to have its own community theatre. After becoming interested in theatre in school, he gathered with several of his parents' friends, and within a few months Pull-Tight's first production, Our Town, was off and rolling. Soon Pull-Tight found a more permanent home at an old jailhouse on Bridge Street. However, a few dinner theatre performances were held at the Holiday Inn on Highway 96.

Other homes through the years have included Freedom Intermediate School, which was Franklin Junior High School at time, Page High School, and even outdoors at Carter's Court. In 1979 Pull-Tight moved into what is now the public defenders' office at 405 Main Street. It was a long, narrow space that held about 75 patrons. In 1985 we moved into our present home, complete with a late-night costume parade and a police escort down Main Street. Our current location is our favorite thus far because it is a charming old building that has served as a grocery store, a restaurant, an antique store, and other things, but mostly because it provides an intimate setting for a great performance.

 

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