A class clown growing up, Turner didn’t have any theater experience when he decided to make theater his major in college. He also never intended to work with kids but soon found himself working for a theater school in New York. “They thought I was funny, something any actor would want in an audience,” he said. Now Turner co-owns the youth theater program la-de-da…
and Nonesuch Theater, a jewel-box venue that focuses on musical theater, with his wife, Gina Schuh-Turner, and his brother-in-law, Troy Schuh. And he plans to add a third theater - a dinner theater - in 2008. The dinner theater was always the end goal. There just happened to be some other things in between, Turner said after spending the day with his partners picking out chair colors and doorknob handles for the venue.
Just off of the Johnson’s Corner exit in Johnstown, the venue will seat 380 people and be the only equity dinner theater in Colorado, Turner said.