Broadway in the Corn: Fifty Golden Years

This is a success story of the uniquely famous Little Theatre—On the Square in tiny Sullivan, Illinois (pop. 3900). They said it couldn’t be done in 1957 when twenty-two-year-old Guy Little, Jr. returned to his hometown in Central Illinois’ rich cornfield country to open a live theatre of Broadway musicals. But Guy made his impossible dream” come true. Over the past fifty years, more than 175 famous theatrical stars have appeared on the Sullivan stage before sold-out crowds. The Little Theatre has expanded the town from a closed rural community into an open, outreaching small city seeking to understand people from all walks of life. The stars brought the outside world in and forever changed the people of Sullivan. And the stars were forever changed as well. Many returned with their families again and again to stay awhile and perform on stage at TLT-OTS: Broadway in the Corn.Burcham, Nancy is the author of 'Broadway in the Corn: Fifty Golden Years', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424184026 and ISBN 1424184029.