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THE STARS Professional theatre has been a part of Central Coast life for over five decades thanks to PCPA – Pacific Conservatory Theatre and the myriad of performing arts enthusiasts who continue to support the arts.
NEWSIES
PCPA was founded in 1964, and the Marian Theater was built in Santa Maria in 1968. Three years later, the company was invited by Roger Neilsen of the Solvang Businessmen’s Association to stage a production of Hamlet in Solvang’s Hans Christian Andersen Park. It played to sold out performances that year, and the next. Support to establish a permanent theatre in the valley quickly grew. Nelisen assembled a passionate committee consisting of Earl Petersen, Royce Lewellyn, Erling and Sue Pohls, Johannes Jaeger, John and Jan Severson, Vince Evans, together with the Santa Ynez Valley Arts Association and many others, they began to lay the foundation for the Festival Theater. In the summer of 1974, through an astounding outpouring of civic initiative, fund raising and hard labor, the Solvang Festival Theater BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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2018 SANTA YNEZ VALLEY DESTINATION GUIDE