THEATER GUILD SETTLES HART DEBT.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Nearly two years after the Canyon Theatre Guild Theatre Guild U.S. theatrical society. Founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner (1890–1962) and others, the group proposed to produce high-quality, noncommercial plays. rented Valencia High's theater for its production of ``Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and their first performed. The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed until 2005. ,'' it settled its debt with the Hart district by giving the school $3,000 in tickets to future productions. ``It's a win-win solution,'' said William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Union High School District spokeswoman Pat Willett. ``It gives us something for the balance owed and it gives them good (public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most ) too.'' The school board and the guild came to a compromise Wednesday after TimBen Boydston, artistic director of the guild, asked it to waive To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered. For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such the $3,040 outstanding debt. The guild rented Valencia High's theater for $6,200 in July and August of 2000 while they were building their Newhall theater. The rental fee included costs for staff overtime as well as utilities. With growing building costs, the theater company was only able to pay $3,200. ``We think it's terrific that the school district is working with us in this way and we're able to provide payment in kind for the use of the facilities,'' Boydston said. ``The district is community schools, so we're very excited to collaborate with them.'' For about three years, Boydston has been working through the Arts Alliance to change the school district's policies on use of their facilities - a change that would allow nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. arts organizations in Santa Clarita to use district facilities at cost. ``It's hard because there is not money to be made in the arts,'' said Boydston, who plans to pursue the issue with the Arts Alliance and the school district. District officials have not decided what they will do with the tickets - about 31 season tickets, 250 regular tickets or 500 student tickets - but they will meet with Boydston to work on the detail. ``I'd love to see the tickets given out to as many people as possible, and if possible to give them out to students,'' Boydston said. ``That would be the very best. After all, that's what education is about.'' |
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