PLEASE VISIT THE GUEST PAGE AND ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION.
Maybe theatre isn’t your passion and perhaps you find it hard to get behind preserving history in local, or ANY, form.Think, though, how the theatre revitalization as a theatre and, more specifically, a performing arts theatre destination, will help the community, as a venue for fundraising for YOUR favorite cause, perhaps with surf movies, high school performances, movie nights, classics festivals, etc.A 650-seat theatre is better than a car wash for fundraising needs. And yes there are those many tax revenues.
We all win when the theatre wins.
I look forward to a time when proceeds from performances at the restored theatre can be "earmarked" to fund the restoration of San Clemente.When we no longer need to preserve we will begin reclaiming what has been lost.We have lost so much and are at risk of losing even more.We are at a time when we need to consider rebuilding the Spanish Village By-The-Sea, as well as preserving what little there is left of Ole's dream.
I hold an enormous amount of hope that the new owner will work with the Historical Society, and what little there exists of the arts in San Clements, to bring life and entertainment back to the San Clemente Miramar Theatre and not JUST as a "pitchur house with moom pichurs" but as a place of learning stage craft but learning and supporting the performing arts.The San Clemente High School has a phenominal performing arts program but they need a real theatre.
I hope it is real this time. I've wasted 20 productive years waiting for and saving a theatre in my home town where I could work and teach and fulfill some personal dreams. It has been saved for someone else's time and I hope they make the most of it.
