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MTYP offers free acting, performing, and film training classes to
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The current facility cost $ 5.6 million to build. Although $ 4 million was raised in a capital campaign, the remainder wasn't completed and as of 2012, the theatre has $ 182,000 in mortgage payments annually, as there is $ 1.2 million remaining debt that the theatre owes for the facility.
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The theatre was founded in 1965 as Actors' Showcase, and incorporated in 1977. In 1982, Leslee
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