Twelve years ago, north Alabama leaders stood in front of a vacant parking lot on Second Avenue and dreamed of creating a space to introduce and expose Calhoun Community College
On the eve of Dream Weavers’ opening night of “Hello Dolly” this past summer, Caleb Baldwin and Gadge Wigginton discussed, for the umpteenth time, the state of theater in Decatur.
Take a nerdy florist assistant, psychotic dentist, doo-wop songs and an exotic plant with a carnivorous appetite to get a horror-comedy rock musical with an ominous warning.
During one of the first rehearsals of the production that would become known as “The Others,” the cast and crew shared monologues detailing the times they felt judged by society.