OPERA HOUSE CELEBRATES QUASQUICENTENNIAL TONIGHT WITH ALL THE LOCAL GAIETY OF MARCH 12, 1901 GRAND OPENING IN GRAVENHURST
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
GRAVENHURST — Overture, curtains, light … tonight’s the night.
No more rehearsing or nursing apart
We know every part by heart
This is it, you’ll hit the heights
And oh what heights we’ll hit
On with the show this is it.
And with apologies to Mel Blanc, Bugs Bunny and Rod Stewart, tonight really is the night for the Gravenhurst Opera House as it marks 125 years of music and arts in the grand dame of Muskoka’s stages.
A quasquicentennial surely worth celebrating.
This evening’s performance will be as full of gaiety and frivolity as was March 12, 1901.
It all starts at 6 p.m. out front in Heritage Square for a pre-concert party followed by an official proclamation at 6:30 p.m. when the doors open.
And then it’s on with the show at 7:30 p.m., which as on it’s opening night it’s an all local show featuring: first a Gravenhurst Bifocals sextet with the national anthem. Followed by Miranda Mulholland, Bet Smith, Sean Cotton, Rhonda Way, Timberbeast Productions, Grant Tingey & Family, Peaches, The Gravenhurst Bifocals Concert Band, Sonny Boy Mick & Michelle, Mike Church and guests.
It’s part of a three-day weekend celebration that continues Friday night with the sold-out Crash Test Dummies and Saturday night’s Chantal Kreviazuk & Raine Maida concerts.
Seats are already sold out.
There’s also a market taking place out front during the day Saturday.
See their website here for more details.
For those who can’t attend — or didn’t grab a coveted seat — you can watch free online with their livestream at their homepage starting at 6 p.m.
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