We went with friends today to the community open house to introduce the brand new McAllen Performing Arts Center. It's an impressive space.
There was free entertainment throughout the day. We got to hear several songs from the Jersey Boys. The full performance is coming in February. We enjoyed it a lot, but the sound system will need some tweaking.
Principal dancers from the San Antonio Ballet performed some dances from the Nutcracker. They were fabulous, but the stage lighting for their performance was totally inadequate. Frequently they were dancing outside the lighted portion of the stage.
We went up to the Grand Terrace, aka the nosebleed section. It is so precipitously steep and far from the stage that we would not enjoy any performance from there. The Mezzanine was much more acceptable.
The consensus is that although the space is impressive, it is not well designed. Access is difficult, especially for seniors with any degree of mobility impairment.
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