CULC Benefit

 This is the fiftieth anniversary of the first of two CULC benefits at the former Metropolitan Theatre at 5000 Euclid Avenue. I got dragged into this at the last minute, Thursday April 8th, if I remember correctly. The Cleveland Urban Learning Community was an experimental high school run by the good Jesuits of St. Ignatius. In typical fashion, I got no help from anyone at CULC, instead, I roped in a friend and co-worker, Jed Ellis to help. I borrowed a bunch of lighting equipment from the theatres, (under penalty of death if anything happened to it) and we dragged it all up Euclid Avenue on the number 6 bus. The show itself went off without a hitch, about 600 attended. The Met was an old theatre, about 1,400 seats, then known as the WHK Auditorium, and could be rented for $150 a night back then. Today it's known as the Agora. A second benefit a year later was somewhat similar.

Blurb from Jane Scott, The Happening, Plain Dealer Action Tab, March 26, 1976.