When we began looking for a new venue for this spring, everything finally fell into place. We had this idea and when we approached the Sphinx Shrine, they were as intrigued and excited by it as we were.

We had been performing in Newington since 1962, but when they informed us that the building was not up to code, we suddenly found ourselves homeless. We had to cancel our next production, which would have been our 100th.

We talked with the Sphinx Shrine and they were excited at the prospect of doing this project with us. We had been forced to perform away from Newington for a number of years and we really wanted to try and do the show in town this year, so this really is the best of both worlds.

During the spring and summer, that is when you compile your list of who you are going to be looking at come fall. You talk to coaches and find out whatever you can and by the time I come back in late spring, I will have whittled a list of 50 down to maybe 30 names. By the time we get to fall, each coach probably knows about 80 percent of the guys they are recruiting that year.

I had no preconceived notions or agendas when I began this in 1993 as to what I was looking for.

They were going around the triangle. They finally wore them down.