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Creston's Footlighters seeking contributions to Mainstage provincial competition

Footlighters Theatre Society is hosting a garage and bake sale, which will run 9 a.m.-1 p.m. June 21 at the red grain elevator...
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The cast of Footlighters Theatre Society's 'Almost Golden' accepting the award for best production from adjudicator Danielle Dunn-Morris (fifth from left).

Following the locally-written Almost Golden being named best production at Centre Stage — Theatre BC’s Kootenay Zone festival held in Creston last month — Footlighters Theatre Society is raising funds to take the show to the provincial competition, Mainstage. One fundraising effort is a garage and bake sale, which will run 9 a.m.-1 p.m. June 21 at the red grain elevator on Northwest Boulevard.

At Mainstage, held in Kamloops July 4-12, Almost Golden will compete against six plays and one musical from around the province.

The July 7-9 trip is expected to cost about $6,000 for the 12 cast and four crew, who will transport the entire set from the Creston production to Kamloops, where they will perform for an adjudicator at the Sagebrush Theatre on July 9. Footlighters will chip in $1,500, and Theatre BC’s Kootenay Zone has contributed $1,000, but the organization is hoping the community will help make up the shortfall.

“This is an incredible opportunity to showcase the talent we have in the Creston Valley — the actors and stage crew, as well as the writers, Suzanne Chubb and Jason Smith,” said Footlighters president and Almost Golden director Brian Lawrence.

—FOOTLIGHTERS THEATRE SOCIETY