Miracle Theatre’s next fundraising play for the Prince George Community Foundation will be A Comedy of Tenors, with proceeds from the show to buy a structural protection unit for the City of Prince George for wildfire mitigation.
Ted Price and Anne Laughlin, the driving forces behind Miracle Theatre, hope tickets, along with sponsorships and donations, will cover the $175,000 cost for the structural protection unit, which is a mobile trailer packed with pumps, hoses, sprinklers and other tools local firefighters can use to help protect residential area from approaching wildfires.
“Our wish is to have it here for the 2024 fire season,” Price said, adding that there has already been $17,300 raised in advance donations.
Money raised above the structural protection unit’s cost will go into the community foundation’s emergency response fund, added the foundation’s director of development Mindy Stroet.
The City of Prince George has applied for funding to buy another structural protection unit, said Tanya Spooner, the city’s manager of emergency programs, but the grant application process takes about four years “so we’re hoping to have two units in the next five years.”
Tickets go on sale Jan. 2 for A Comedy of Tenors, which runs from March 13 to April 3 at Art Space above Books & Company. Tickets are $37.50 each and Price and Laughlin will be at Studio Fair at CN Centre this weekend selling advance tickets. There are also opportunities for private and corporate performances of the show during its run, they added.
“It’s not a musical, it’s just one big comedy,” Price said.
“This play is so funny that we’re going to offer a money-back guarantee that this play is hilarious and if it isn’t, Mayor Simon Yu will give you a refund,” he joked.
