Cascade Theatre Reopening Plans

Cascade Theatre Reopening Plans

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Action news now reporter karen alvarez stopped by the cascade theatre in redding and shares just some the changes you can expect to see once it opens again since 1935---the cascade theatre has been a gem in downtown redding--- sot(michelle irvine, general manager for the cascade theatre in redding): renovated about 14 years ago and reopened that's when we purchased it and it's be in continuous operation ever since hosting plenty of in-house productions throughout the years.

But the cascade theatre has been closed for over two months---- sot(michelle irvine, gm): literally four days before we were scheduled to open "matilda" our in house spring musically, everything just stopped.

But general manager--- michelle irvine--- says that hasn't stopped them---- sot layer with broll: we've been painting and cleaning and just preparing everyday for you know, hopefully you know getting the word soon that hopefully in a couple of weeks we'll be able to open, you just don't know.

Stand up: under governor newsom's plan--- venues like the cascade theatre will not be able to reopen until stage four--- which begs the question---what will the future of theatres look like?

Sot(michelle irvine, gm): we just don't know yet, but preparing for all of this is a huge change.

But irvine says one of the options could be streaming---- sot (michelle irvine, gm): you know maybe we can only have 200-250 people here and we sell that, then people can purchase to watch online.

Other changes people could expect to see--- sot(michelle irvine, gm): by the time stage four hits, certainly hits i don't know if masks will be required i mean certainly we've got handsanitizer, we're looking into getting the plexiglass partitions.

Sadly we won't be able to use our theater cups.

Even though the state hasn't yet laid out guidelines to how venues like the cascade theater can operate---irvine tells me they'e preapred to go by the rules so that---- sot(michelle irvine,gm): people are comfortable coming back.

We're not going to push and open until it's safe and and we can take care of things reporting live in redding, karen alvarez, action news now, coverage you can count on.

Irvine tells us