Like giant toppled, red dominoes, the old auditorium seats of the Porter County Memorial Opera House lay shingled over each other Tuesday morning after being unbolted from the floor.
Eric McCann, who has acted in productions at the Memorial Opera House, dismantles old seating the morning of Tuesday, May 14, 2024, to take home as a souvenir. MOH Technical Director Stretch Miller helped him carry some out the door. “We finished ‘Beautiful’ on Sunday, tore down the set, and started loading up the truck getting everything out,” Miller said of the transition to interior renovations that are expected to wrap up by August.
In the performance space, the ceiling will be cleaned with its floral designs and the original proscenium, which looks like an ornate picture frame around the stage, preserved. The renovation has been a long time in coming, with elected officials having haggled for six months over how extensive to make them. At the end of 2022 the Porter County Board of Commissioners had a plan for more significant renovations that included joining the MOH with the neighboring Sheriff’s Residence by way of a contemporary glass and metal addition and creating accessible bathrooms.
Not long after McCann carted his seats home, the Board of Commissioners held its monthly morning meeting and reassigned $411,952 of the ARPA money from the MOH budget to other county concerns as the scaled-down project is coming in under budget. Site Manager Bob Burkus runs the Memorial Opera House renovation from the former lounge on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
Miller said attendance is on the upswing. “We were sold out almost every day,” he said of “Beautiful,” the musical about the life of Carole King.
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