Curtain up, light the lights – the Madisonville Arts Center is declaring May 10 as opening night.

The dream of Dan Dermody, Ed Cohen and Dee Anne Bryll, Madisonville had been a couple of years in the making, and the fund-raising of a few hundred thousand to renovate the building into theater, gallery and classroom space; a spiffy marquee out front at 5021 Whetsel – and a lighted, fenced parking lot.

 

Classes started earlier this year but now the plan is to get residents for the upstairs theater.