Today is Friday night, it is less than three hours til tonight's showing of Sleeping Beauty.  

If you are a couple and want to be so generous and make King Phillip richer, you can pay the high price seats and sit in the second row, orchestra center!   YES!  SECOND ROW.

A child and two mommies can sit just seven, yes, just 7 rows back.

LOTS AND LOTS of seats available.  

The taxpayers fund this, where is the detailed financial report, the monthly statements, the balance sheet, the list of all revenue and expenditures, a FULL ACCOUNTING of every penny!

I was kind of curious about this choice. It has been talked about a lot locally, the problems SPAC has been having fulfilling its mission as summer home of the NYC Ballet. I don't know what he (Morris) thought would be different. Ballet isn't doing too well in this area.

Morris is also fulfilling his mission. Screwing the taxpayers, hogging all County hotel tax receipts and producing flop after flop. Sleeping Beauty is the best selling show in months and it will also lose money. But who cares? Pathetic Karen Johnson and Lisa Perazo want to dump more taxpayers money into the arts tourism black hole. Saw some tourists from Holland Downtown and they asked where's the closest market?
Sent them over the bridge to Gabriels.

Quoted from benny salami

Morris is also fulfilling his mission. Screwing the taxpayers, hogging all County hotel tax receipts and producing flop after flop. Sleeping Beauty is the best selling show in months and it will also lose money. But who cares? Pathetic Karen Johnson and Lisa Perazo want to dump more taxpayers money into the arts tourism black hole. Saw some tourists from Holland Downtown and they asked where's the closest market?
Sent them over the bridge to Gabriels.

And you told them about the gang assault that was kept quiet, and the recent armed robberies downtown. and of course the panhandlers.

Good thing they asked. They might've gone up the other way.
Hogging all the receipts is exactly what Proctor's is doing. That's what I was talking about on my other post about the gambling. We're to believe that our "investment" downtown is paying off, but it isn't an investment, it is a crapshoot, and on the odd chance we do "win" something (slightly higher sales tax), it gets plowed right back into our "investment". If Proctor's is an "economic engine", and it is indeed bringing all this cash into the area, then young Mr. Cuthbert had to be right when he said we were entitled to a larger share of tax money here in the city. Because we city taxpayers are largely bearing the burden of Proctor's.
Those Holland tourists, if they stayed in a local hotel, had money taken from their pocket earmarked for Proctor's.
You know something? I know for a fact that international tourists read history books and they do come to this country, and this area, looking for the history, but they find a historic marker telling you where something used to be, or they find a big mess where our "planners" are busy destroying every trace of our past, like Erie Boulevard.