Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – The Historic Holmes Theatre in Detroit Lakes released their 2023-2024 season schedule on Monday, which includes 18 different events and three themed performances by The Fabulous Armadillos.
Elle LaMere, marketing director for the Holmes Theatre, said the whole season is filled with a variety of shows, including some that they’ve never attempted at the Holmes before. But, one she is really looking forward to is ABBA Solutley Fab: A tribute to ABBA, which will be hitting the historic stage on Nov. 11.
“Personally, I’m really looking forward to a few of our shows,” said LaMere. “We have the ABBA tribute coming. ABBA Solutley Fab. I’m really excited for that because I love ABBA’s music and I’m a big fan of ‘Mama Mia!’ as well.”
She said they also plan to show the movie “Mama Mia!” on their new drop-down movie screen in the lead-up to the show, but a date hasn’t been finalized yet.
2023-24 Historic Holmes Theatre event calender by Michael Achterling on Scribd
The Argentinian folk dance group Malevo will be another first time artist for the Historic Holmes Theatre next season when they take the stage on March 7, 2024.
“They specialize in malambo and they were actually on America’s Got Talent, they were a semi-finalist,” Lamere said. “So they are a really exciting, high energy, dance group and we’ve never had anything like this before. And they use percussion and dance styles like flamenco in their performance, so it’s going to be really fun.”
Another unique addition this year, she said, is “Fairy Tales on Ice: The Adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy,” which will include two performances on Feb. 29, 2024 and feature fake ice on Holmes stage that the performers will skate on during the show.
“We are actually having this group come out and they are going to be ice skating on our stage using synthetic ice,” she said. “We’ve never had anything like this before … no one’s ever skated on our stage, so we’re really excited for that.”
LaMere also said the Lakes Area Community Theatre will be back this year with their production of Godspell, which will run Oct. 5-7.
“It’s been a really long time since we’ve opened up auditions to the public,” said LaMere. “It’s really geared toward 18 and up, we’re looking for adults to come out and we’re looking to cast up to 10 roles … it’s being directed by Kathy Larson, who’s very loved around the community and then Nick Larson is going to be the music director. We’re just really excited to be bringing community theatre kind of back to Detroit Lakes. I mean, it’s always been around, but it’s been awhile since we’ve really tried to encourage everyone to get involved.”
The community theatre will be holding open Godspell auditions Aug. 6-8 . Those interested in reserving an audition slot should visit the Godspell: Community Auditions Facebook page.
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