The historic, financially-beleagured Bijou Theater is letting its staff go and cancelling all productions in order to start over.
To put an end to its seemingly perpetual money woes, the Bijou Board announced Monday that it intends to "mount a community fund-raising campaign to eliminate the $607,000 debt, another $183,000 in payables, and use any excess to start an endowment."
Thanks to a donation from Home Federal, the theater is out of arrears and is no longer in danger of foreclosure, as it had been a short while ago.
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