Tickets for all productions are available in advance at the Community Center, 3450 W. The Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre Program is a community theatre, providing an outlet for local talent of all ages. On the performance dates, we have a mix of small banquet tables and row seating, which make up a very intimate theatre experience. (So please.support your local Evergreen Park businesses).Īuditions, rehearsals and performances of the Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre take place in the Evergreen Park Senior Center, 9547 S. We are very thankful for the support of the Village Administration, Departments, Staff, as well as our corporate sponsors for their financial help with each production, which keeps the ticket costs down to a level that is FAMILY-AFFORDABLE with plays and musicals that are FAMILY-FRIENDLY. He has since taken a groundbreaking position as the Denver Center’s Senior Arts Journalist.The Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre is a community activity brought to you by the Evergreen Park Recreation Department. John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theatre critics in the U.S. The formal design plan and other details will be revealed at a press conference on Friday. But he did say “the Boardwalk will be home to all kinds of different things.”Ĭonstruction will begin in late spring with an anticipated opening in the spring or summer of 2021. Candlelight is proudly home to family fare, and atthe time of the merger he said not to expect the Candlelight to expand into edgier fare. Webb and Clark said it is too soon to say what kind of theatrical programming will be staged in the Boardwalk. There will be only one performing space, but Clark said it will be flexible to accommodate intimate productions. “Dave took a tiny idea and he turned it into a giant one,” she said.Ĭlark, of Loveland, is the owner of Clark Construction, which built the Candlelight in 2008 as a 350-seat, 22,000-square-foot gem of a dinner theatre at Johnson’s Corner, about 40 miles north of Denver.
But once she started talking to Clark, the plan kept getting bigger and bigger. Her immediate goal was finding a new home for her education programs, she said. Webb also said the Northern Colorado community was shaken by the loss of Midtown “and it seemed inconceivable not to have something like that here in town,” she said. Amy Madden will serve as Marketing Director. The Managing Director of the Boardwalk by Candlelight will be Henry Award-winning actor Jalyn Courtenay Webb, who also will operate her highly successful Divabee Productions and Academy by Divabee education programs for students ages 5-18 out of the Boardwalk. “Dave Clark took a tiny idea and he turned it into a giant one.” – Jalyn Courtenay Webb It will be turned into housing for low-income and homeless residents.
In 2011, Kurt Terrio bought the Carousel and moved into the Midtown Arts Center, which has since been bulldozed. The new theatre will be built on an empty lot on the corner of Boardwalk and Mason streets, just two blocks from where sisters Sandra Holter and her sister, Vandi Holter Deines, opened the Carousel Dinner Theatre back in 1991. “People were clearly disappointed, and so I thought, ‘Well, we need to build them another one,’ ” said Clark. Since then, Clark has heard loud and clear that the people of Fort Collins want a Broadway-caliber (and sized) theatre operation within city limits, he said. Read more: Midtown will close after merger with Candlelight But the deal essentially amounted to a “buy and close,” given that Midtown served 40,000 audiences a year. In August, Clark negotiated a merger with Midtown that essentially bought him the opportunity to absorb Midtown’s 4,000 subscribers into the Candlelight. “This new theatre will be the hub of the arts in Fort Collins,” said owner Dave Clark, who in 2008 opened the parent Candlelight Dinner Playhouse 17 miles south of Fort Collins in Johnstown. The $10 million, 800-seat Boardwalk will be a home to live theatre, concerts, conferences, weddings, events and theatre education. Not only will the new theatre fill the void brought by the closure of the Midtown Arts Center in August, it will be built on land owned by the siblings who opened Midtown as the Carousel Dinner Theatre way back in 1991.
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Theatre in Fort Collins will come full circle in 2021 when the newly announced Boardwalk by Candlelight opens in central Fort Collins.
The Boardwalk will fill void left by closure of Midtown Arts Center Renderings of the new Boardwalk By Candlelight Theatre in Fort Collins, opening in 2021.
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