I am at pains to understand how Theatre 29 fits into all of this. It receives the most funding and does little to attract any overnight visitors. How many people come to 29 Palms to watch kiddie plays? Here is what has been shown over the last three years:
(2022-23) James and the Giant Peach; Puffs; Holly Jolly Holiday Hoopla; Peter and the Starcatcher; My Son Pinocchio, Midsummer's Night Dream.
(2023-24) Roald Dahl's The Witches; A Charlie Brown Christmas; Man of La Mancha; Daddy Longlegs; Nunsense; Mis-Cast Goes to the Movies; Clue.
(2024-25) Legend of Sleep Hollow; The Sound of Music; Easy to Love -- A Cole Porter Concert; A Streetcar Named Desire; Jesus Christ Superstar; And Then There Were None.
There may be a compelling case for producing kiddie theater and involving local kids. I just don't see why it has any connection whatever to promoting tourism in 29 Palms.
Writing comments here is a pain in the you-know-what. I had to go through three rounds of verification from SubStack, which, when finally done, landed me on a generic Substack page from which I had to search to find The Desert Trumpet. If you can adjust the settings for verifying comments, I suggest you do so, or you will get very few indeed. This is *after* I not only signed up, but contributed. This is not the way to encourage engagement.
My math was off by a full decimal. Nearly 1.3 million dollars in gross rents = $20,000 in TBID ToT. The significance being that $20K is the maximum per-award amount under the current event grant program.
I am at pains to understand how Theatre 29 fits into all of this. It receives the most funding and does little to attract any overnight visitors. How many people come to 29 Palms to watch kiddie plays? Here is what has been shown over the last three years:
(2022-23) James and the Giant Peach; Puffs; Holly Jolly Holiday Hoopla; Peter and the Starcatcher; My Son Pinocchio, Midsummer's Night Dream.
(2023-24) Roald Dahl's The Witches; A Charlie Brown Christmas; Man of La Mancha; Daddy Longlegs; Nunsense; Mis-Cast Goes to the Movies; Clue.
(2024-25) Legend of Sleep Hollow; The Sound of Music; Easy to Love -- A Cole Porter Concert; A Streetcar Named Desire; Jesus Christ Superstar; And Then There Were None.
There may be a compelling case for producing kiddie theater and involving local kids. I just don't see why it has any connection whatever to promoting tourism in 29 Palms.
Writing comments here is a pain in the you-know-what. I had to go through three rounds of verification from SubStack, which, when finally done, landed me on a generic Substack page from which I had to search to find The Desert Trumpet. If you can adjust the settings for verifying comments, I suggest you do so, or you will get very few indeed. This is *after* I not only signed up, but contributed. This is not the way to encourage engagement.
My math was off by a full decimal. Nearly 1.3 million dollars in gross rents = $20,000 in TBID ToT. The significance being that $20K is the maximum per-award amount under the current event grant program.