{"id":1080,"date":"2012-02-26T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebzbproductions.ebzb.org\/feature-salisbury-post-david-zum-brunnen-says-piedmont-players-is-home\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:08:00","slug":"feature-salisbury-post-david-zum-brunnen-says-piedmont-players-is-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/2012\/02\/26\/feature-salisbury-post-david-zum-brunnen-says-piedmont-players-is-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Salisbury Post – David zum Brunnen says Piedmont Players is ‘home’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDavid zum Brunnen says Piedmont Players is ‘home’<\/p>\n<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Piedmont Players is home. The group has rehearsed in many different
\n places over time, but when you’re in rehearsal, building or striking
\nthe set, or getting ready for the show, you\u2019re at home. And when you’re
\n on your way to rehearsal \u2014 you\u2019re on your way home. It may not always
\nfeel that way at every given moment, but you really are.<\/p>\n

Piedmont Players is family. I don\u2019t necessarily mean the family you
\nshare a house with, or your blood relations. I mean the family with
\nwhom you share the failures, the successes, the fears, the pain, the
\nlaughs and the joy that come with working on a show \u2014 on-stage or
\noff-stage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just like a family of sorts, because some family members you
\nimmediately connect with, and others, well … ya just don\u2019t. But you
\nstill work together for a common purpose \u2014 and it usually pays off in
\nthe end.<\/p>\n

Piedmont Players is community. As I understand it, the early shows were
\ndone at Knox Junior High School (or middle school, now I think). What a
\n journey from then to now. There are lots of people who helped formed
\nthe organization (including my father), but there are a great many more
\nwho have kept it alive and now thriving.
\nMy son and I were visiting recently and attended the youth presentation
\nof \u201cA Comedy of Errors\u201d at the new Norvell Theatre. I\u2019m not sure who was
\n more thrilled in our trio who saw it \u2014 my mother who just beamed that
\nher community had this new \u201csecond\u201d stage in town; her grandson, who was
\n able to follow actors about the same age as himself speaking
\nShakespeare; or myself, who was so impressed that my home town was host
\nto a community of generous, caring people dedicated to make such a
\nbeautiful space possible and to make such a fun event happen.
\nThere are a great many factors that have helped shape me and my view of
\nthe world, and Piedmont Players was one of them \u2014 for the better to be
\nsure. And I\u2019ve no doubt the same remains true for many others. Piedmont
\n Players informed me broadly in the early steps of my path. It gave me
\nan outlet when I was a bit precocious in my adolescence. It provided
\n a foundation for me and a place to be accepted when I was such an ugly,
\n awkward, clumsy, goofy dweeb of a kid (and I was all of those, believe
\nme). It kept me out of trouble when I was briefly a rebellious teen.
\nAnd it elevated me to understand why my parents stayed involved in their
\n community for so many years.
\nI mentioned before that Piedmont Players is family. Like so many, I
\nhold many fond memories of those who have been a part of the group.
\nThough I don\u2019t see many of them as often as I\u2019d like when I get back in
\ntown on occasion \u2014 and some have now passed away \u2014 I think of them
\noften. A few of them remain some of my dearest friends to this day and
\nthey remain close with my wife and son.<\/p>\n

I’m lucky enough to be a working actor and theatre producer thus far in
\nmy life, but who would\u2019ve thought that in its first 50 years, so many
\nindividuals would have gone on to such success in their lives \u2014
\nparticularly so many in the performing arts and other avenues. When you
\nthink of all of the college students who participated with the group who
\n have gone on to great performing careers (or the like), along with all
\nof the community members (young and old) who have tread the boards,
\nworked the lights, or sold the tickets, who have also enjoyed such
\nsuccess in so many ways \u2014 it\u2019s pretty remarkable, if not inevitable.<\/p>\n

Most of all though, Piedmont Players reminds me of why so many
\ncommunities have a local theatre group. Because it\u2019s needed \u2014 because
\nit\u2019s essential. It\u2019s part of how a community defines itself. When people
\n ask where I\u2019m from, I tell them about this idyllic place I grew up in
\ncalled Salisbury. Sure the town and the county have issues to confront \u2014
\n that\u2019s true everywhere. But as I describe the place to them, in the
\nback of my mind I’m reminded how lucky I was to grow up where I did \u2014
\nand how I did. I\u2019m trying to make sure my son has access to similar
\nexperiences. And as I continue my stories about my home town to those
\nwho ask, I am also reminded of how lucky Salisbury is to have Piedmont
\nPlayers.<\/p>\n

You really can\u2019t make this stuff up. Lucky indeed.<\/p>\n

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