{"id":1084,"date":"2013-01-28T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2013-01-29T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T18:28:17","slug":"the-historic-state-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"The Historic State Theatre…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in Eustis, is the home of the\u00a0Bay Street Players, and if you have never\u00a0attended a production of theirs there, I highly recommend it.\u00a0 Yesterday I attended a performance of Avenue\u00a0Q, The Musical\u00a0 and can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it.\u00a0I was with a friend, \u00a0who had seen Avenue Q on Broadway, and she said\u00a0this production\u00a0was every bit as good.\u00a0As Broadway?\u00a0 That really says something. \u00a0 A few weeks ago I attended a one man show called the 6 Guitars, and it was fantastic.\u00a0\u00a0Chase Padgett was extremely talented, and yet very funny.\u00a0 A very upbeat performance that I would gladly go\u00a0see again, if it was still playing.\u00a0\u00a0A little history; \u00a0the Historic State Theatre was built in 1916 and in addition to serving as a Vaudeville Theatre it was also designed as a venue for the latest craze in mass entertainment, “moving pictures”,\u00a0 hence the presence of one of the largest “photo play” pipe organs in the Southeast. When vaudeville faded out it was strictly a movie theater and operated as such for many years, until that too died out.\u00a0 It was empty for many years until in 1974 a group of theatre aficionados discovered\u00a0the vacant theatre\u00a0and decided to clean it up.\u00a0\u00a0That is when the Bay Street Players were founded, and they have been there ever since..\u00a0 That was\u00a038 years ago, and they have done a lot of work, both with productions but also with\u00a0the restoring of the building.\u00a0 They perform five plays yearly, as well as other short productions.\u00a0 The Bay Street Players also promote the arts in their youth program, called the Young People’s Theatre. The theatre is old, but intimate. It seats roughly 225 people and when you go there, you do step back in time. This is not your Savannah Center, it is an old theater of our youth.They sell soft drinks and some candy in the lobby, and I think I even saw some homemade cookies. \u00a0The dress goes from very casual to quite dressy, and mostly in between.\u00a0 I guess the best word to describe the theatre, and also the Historic\u00a0Town of Eustis,\u00a0is quaint. Restaurants are excellent and if you like Mexican food, and atmosphere, \u00a0there is a restaurant a few doors down,\u00a0and it is the best Mexican Restaurant I\u00a0 have ever\u00a0eaten at, and that includes the Mexican Restaurant in Old Towne San Diego.\u00a0Lake Eustis is one block over from the theater. There is a lovely little park\u00a0where you can sit and enjoy the views, or walk along the lake itself.\u00a0 Some good stores for shopping, although Sunday\u00a0the restaurants are open, but most of the shops are closed.\u00a0 It is about a 40 minute ride from here…Rt#441 to Rt#19 North.\u00a0 You can get more information by going to www.baystreetplayers.org<\/a>.\u00a0 I love The Villages, and I love what’s all around us too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in Eustis, is the home of the\u00a0Bay Street Players, and if you have never\u00a0attended a production of theirs there, I highly recommend it.\u00a0 Yesterday I attended a performance of Avenue\u00a0Q, The Musical\u00a0 and can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it.\u00a0I was with a friend, \u00a0who had seen Avenue Q on Broadway, and she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}