The Cedar Falls Community Theatre presented the opening performance of "Oliver!" Friday in downtown Cedar Falls.
The opening performance of Lionel Bart's "Oliver! The Musical" brought laughter to Friday night's audience in the Oster Regent Theatre and moved them to think about difficult issues like homelessness, children without guardians and abuse. This musical drama describes the adventures of a young orphan boy named Oliver, and the characters who try to help or harm him along his way to finding a family. Moe than 200 people in the community helped to make the production possible including the directors and production team, cast, crews and musicians. "Oliver!" will show again on June 15, and 16 at 7:30 p.m. and on June 10 and 17 at 2 p.m.
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In 1987, downtown was reportedly a bleak place with few businesses. Today the story is much different, thanks in large part to the Community Main Street organization.
The year was 1987. Main Street in downtown Cedar Falls was, by all accounts, a dreary place with few businesses able to stay open. The city was considering demolishing one side of the 100 block, a street of historic but lifeless buildings, to create a parking lot. Now, 25 years later, Main Street in Cedar Falls is once again a bustling place. Busy shops and restaurants stand proudly where the parking lot was once proposed. Cedar Falls Main Street survived in part because of a group called Community Main Street, an organization that has been actively working to revive downtown ever since the parking lot proposal. "When there was talk of razing a whole block, people banded together," Community Main Street Executive Director Carol Lilly said…
