2, when the musical “Hadestown” begins a two week run. The first scheduled performance is not until Nov. “ will allow us to get back on track with our capital campaign and help sustain the operation.”Īt the Citizens Bank Opera House, owned by impresario Don Law and philanthropist David Mugar, the grant of $7.9 million from the SBA will bring back full-time staff from furloughs and subsidize repairs and upgrades, such as improvements to ventilation and new Evolv Express entry-screening systems. “We had to put the brakes on all of our capital projects because of the delays with the funding,” Soward said. “That shuttered venue grant is going to make me whole again,” Aharon said. For owner Gill Aharon, the nearly $79,000 federal grant meant not having to take from his family’s savings to cover his 2020 losses. The theater primarily serves touring acts that need months of lead time, though it occasionally hosts weddings and other events.īut the room is already hopping at the Lilypad, an intimate music club in Cambridge’s Inman Square that resumed shows last month, for crowds of up to nearly 100 people.
While Governor Charlie Baker surprised the arts world by fully reopening venues in late May, the Wang stage remains quiet for now. “Life was getting really tough, financially.” “Remember we’ve had no earned income for 15 months,” Spaulding said. But to keep up, Spaulding said the nonprofit also racked up debt, which he hopes to significantly reduce with the federal funds. The Boch Center raised $4 million in donations during the past year, in part to keep the salaries of 15 or so staffers through the pandemic and pay bills such as rent, insurance, and utilities.
The money couldn’t come soon enough for Spaulding. For many, the grumbling has turned to celebrating now that the spigots are open.
That does not appear to be a problem with the venues relief program, which Moisuk said has enough funding for all qualified applicants so far. Yes, the SBA’s $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund had its own issues, driven in large part by funding from Congress that fell far short of demand.
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