Our History

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December 23 is an important day in my life and the life of Misty McGrady. Fourteen years ago today, Misty McGrady and I became engaged at Cinderella’s Castle in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The engagement ring was delivered in a glass slipper. Today, “Meet Me in St. Louis” was performed for one final time at Myers Dinner Theatre with Richard and Donna Myers as the producers and owners of the theater. Misty and I are now the owners of the theater. We will host a New Year’s Eve gala at the theater next Sunday at which time we will announce the lineup of shows being presented in 2024. We are waiting for the final word on the licenses for a couple of shows that we want to present. We do know that the first show of the season will be, appropriately enough, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. This show was the only one written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for television, and it aired in 1957 and starred Julie Andrews as Cinderella. As many of you may know, Julie McGrady is named after Julie Andrews. My late parents moved to Hillsboro in 1957, and my late brother, Daniel, was born that year. The staff at the theater had already picked out Cinderella as the first show for 2024 before we signed the contract to buy the theater this fall, and it felt like it “was meant to be” that Cinderella would be the first show we produced. We hope that our friends will join us at the theater on New Year’s Eve or for one or more of the performances of Cinderella starting on February 9. It will not be an easy thing to run a successful dinner theater in a small town, but Cinderella and her godmother will tell you that “Impossible things are happening every day!”