Dinner is served "on the green" starting at 6:30. The meals and deserts are catered and awesome. They are also "show specific" meaning that they are meant to go with the time period/genre/ambiance/etc...of whatever show is being performed. After dinner in the billowy white and decorated tents, you find your chair on the hillside and watch a the show starting at 8:30 so that the sun is setting. The show is performed in a barn. The side walls open up to the stage, the orchestra sits in the hayloft on the upper right side (as you look at that stage), the dressing rooms are the horse stalls on the lower level. This is a horse barn in current use...with the horses moved out for the duration of the rehearsals and shows.
They have been doing this for YEARS in Spring Grove and the shows are well attended (hundreds of people attend over the 4 day run). It is a truly incredible sight to see if you've never done it before. Next year's show will (hopefully) be Fiddler on the Roof, so keep that in mind. Now for you viewing entertainment: pictures from the life of the "lofted pit orchestra people". Pictures are all compliments of trumpet extraordinaire Mike Ehr.
The Hillside
The dinner and snack tent
From Backstage
The catwalk in the loft. David (the director man in the pic.) spent most of the show up there running backdrops and curtains.
A Proud Norwegian Heritage in the community
The Barn
The ShowAnd Finally: My lofted PIT people
The view from the 3rd riser in the PIT orchestra's Loft
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