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cabaret style,” she said. “Well, we couldn’t do that.”
That’s not to say the operators haven’t been creative in looking
for new opportunities. Over the holidays, CEPAC screened
virtual events and hosted a drive-in theater screening of The
Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker.
More recently, CEPAC has had its other resident performance
group, the Atlanta Opera, back in person. A big-top tent hosted
‘Carmen’ and Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Threepenny Opera.’
The tent sits outside the front doors of the venue, where tables
and chairs are grouped into pods to allow for social distancing,
providing the “cabaret style” format Swann alluded to.
The opera will return to the Performing Arts centre in
November with “four colorful, uplifting productions.”
“The Mainstage season features Handel’s Julius Caesar, never
before staged by The Atlanta Opera, plus Rossini’s beloved The
Barber of Seville, the return of The Pirates of Penzance, and
the Southeastern premiere of Grammy award-winning The (R)
evolution of Steve Jobs,” the opera noted in a news release.
And, as was noted by Vickie Hubbard, CEPAC’s managing
director, CEPAC continues to offer a number of advantages
which should allow it to rebound quickly, such as its superior
acoustics and artist-friendly accoutrements.
“I just think that our versatility (and) our crew is really good,”
said Tom Rowland, CEPAC’s marketing and programming
director. “I think the ‘road reputation,’ you know, a building gets
a road rep, so to speak, by the touring industry about how they
are to work with, and they talk to each other. And I think we’ve
got a really good road rep.”
Vickie Hubbard and
Tom Rowland of the
Cobb Energy Performing
Arts Centre pose before
the venue’s 2,750 seats,
which sat empty for
much of the pandemic.
Photo by: Chart Riggall
Among the events put
on by the Cobb Energy
Performing Arts Centre
when the venue was
shuttered are productions
by the Atlanta Opera of
“Carmen” and
“The Threepenny Opera.”
Performances took place
under a big top tent
outside the venue’s
front doors.
Special–Ken Howard
/AtlantaLyric.com