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May 12
2010
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Shakespeare was wrong. The building’s the thing, and not the play – at least at the Casino Star Theatre. Another act in the historic theatre’s preservation drama played out on Friday, May 7, 2010 when a motorist crashed into the adjacent His ‘n’ Hers store and careened into the scaffolding recently installed for the theatre’s façade restoration.
“About half the scaffolding was genuinely
trashed, and what I thought looked pretty okay turned out to have been knocked so far off base, that the entire structure had to be taken down,” reported Diana Major Spencer, Executive Director of the Casino Star Theatre Foundation. “The damage to the building is minimal, but has to be fixed before tomorrow's expected rainstorms materialize.”
Despite this latest incident, Major Spencer vows that the restoration of the Gunnison, Utah landmark will continue. “We're so numb to setbacks by now that we just forge ahead. This historic theatre NEEDS to be saved/ restored/ reinvigorated!”
