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Alberta Bair Theater prepares for full, 1,500-seat capacity in Billings
Alberta Bair Theater preparing for full, 1,500-seat capacity in Billings
and last updated 2021-06-04 00:11:16-04
The Alberta Bair Theater announced this week that it has lifted its limit of 300 at test events.
The testing will continue as the crew prepares for the grand opening in the fall.
KTVQ
Stakeholders, who include donors and past ticket holders, have enjoyed one test show so far at the Alberta Bair Theater and the crew is getting ready for the real shows.
Jody Grant, Alberta Bair Theater programming and marketing director.
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During a Helena City Commission meeting Wednesday, the Helena Civic Center Steering Committee delivered its recommendations on the future of the 100-year-old venue.Â
On March 25, the committee voted 7-2 to recommend that the Helena City Commission form an advisory board to be focused as a non-profit board of directors and that the non-profit would be responsible for the management of the civic center with a lease agreement with the City of Helena.
The recommendation from the volunteer committee comes after more than a year of meetings, research and discussions on the matter of establishing a new advisory board. In the end, after looking at all of the research Allan (R. Scott) and Andrea (Optiz) in particular did, looking at other models of successful nonprofit management of city-owned venues all across the country . we reached the conclusion that partnering with a local, homegrown nonprofit entity to operate and manage the civic center captures the best aspects of all the sc
Music (and crowds) start a comeback beneath the Big Sky
Anna Paige
BILLINGS Glowing blue against the stage lights, fans of Meg Gildehaus beamed with a special kind of delight, childlike almost, as they stood clustered in groups during the musician’s April 3 concert at the Pub Station.
The concert was one in a series of socially-distanced performances that began in March. These concerts marked the first time the stage has been used since the pandemic forced the closure of the nation’s live entertainment venues more than a year ago.
For Pub Station concerts, fans could purchase tickets in groups of four or six, and they were separated from others by metal fencing set in a U-shape. Such barriers, typically erected at the front of the stage to keep the massive crowds at bay, didn’t seem to matter when, after more than a year, a really loud rock concert was pumping through everyone’s bodies.