Ernst & Young Global CEO Jim Turley is being recognized for his work with the National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) and he wrote a blog post over at Bloomberg BusinessWeek explaining how he became such a theatre buff:
“I grew up in St. Louis. From the time I’m old enough to remember, I was lucky enough to go to musicals. They would come through the St. Louis Muny—a big outdoor theater—and I remember loving all the big shows. I was mostly into sports in high school, but I also got to be in a couple of plays. At one point they were short a man, so I ended up being the lead in a barbershop quartet in The Music Man. “I got involved in the National Corporate Theatre Fund shortly after I moved to New York. I was out with the previous chairman, Irwin Engelman, and one of the first things his wife said was, ‘Irwin, Jim was on the board of the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis; you’ve got to get him on the NTCF board.’ It’s been a part of my life since.