February 17, 2025

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Thomaston Opera House features chilling ghost tours with a twist


THOMASTON — Landmark Local community Theatre is developing Haunted Opera Household excursions, Oct. 22-Nov. 7 at the Thomaston Opera Home.

LCT is generally acknowledged as a regional non-revenue arts firm presenting year-round community theater productions. LCT has been dim since of COVID-19. The excursions are the 1st activities in the Thomaston Opera Household due to the fact that time. LCT has produced plans for the excursions that are in compliance with all of the CDC, state and regional suggestions for secure practices, in accordance to a statement.


Two individual tours are available for patrons to pick out involving just about every evening. “Theatre of the Macabre” commences in the Crescent Gallery of the old firehouse. The function takes each tour team though a maze of theater-based mostly haunts culminating in the Thomaston Opera Property. Once seated, attendees will be entertained by Juan Cardona Jr. on the Marr Colton Theatre Pipe Organ playing accompaniment for Halloween themed quick movies alongside with brief reside entertainment by LCT members.



“Graveside Stories” begins at the Clay Street entrance of the making. “Tour teams will descend into the basement space of the authentic town corridor and adhere to a path by means of the basement to the elevator. This tour will emphasize replicated graves of inhabitants that ended up the moment buried in the site of the Thomaston Opera Home and aged firehouse,” according to party organizers. “Patrons on this tour will basically be going for walks in the subterranean area exactly where the bodies were buried some 140+ years previously. When through the basement, these patrons will also be shipped to the Opera Property auditorium for the above-mentioned leisure.”



All groups will be dismissed separately for the ultimate leg of the tour exactly where they will exit by way of the key clock tower stairwell to Major Road, “where they may practical experience final frights,” occasion organizers stated.

The two excursions will be uniquely various. Theatre of the Macabre will highlight tableaus from earlier or quite possibly foreseeable future reveals seen on the Thomaston Opera Residence stage or other venues during our area,” according to associates. “The tours will have lighting, seem and particular effects alongside with actors in costumes and make-up employing theatrical props and scenery to established the phase for Halloween themed entertainment. Just about every tableau will entertain irrespective of whether you are familiar with the distinct exhibit or not. Patrons with clearly show familiarity will have an additional layer of amusement as they practical experience the tours.


“Each team will have a costumed character tour guideline ushering them as a result of the shows. Every single guide will be a exclusive character with their possess tale to inform several of the guides will be regarded as past performers on the opera house phase,” users said.

“Graveside Tales will be pretty distinctive from your common ‘haunted’ celebration,” in accordance to users. “It is supposed to entertain. Having said that, it is also component of nearby Thomaston record that really should be noticed and revered by current spectators. The tales involved in the tour will be dramatized from genuine nearby historical figures and events. Tour guides will also portray precise individuals from that period.”

In accordance to LCT, it is not typically acknowledged that the Thomaston City Hall/ Opera Property and the previous firehouse ended up built on the Northbury Burial Grounds, which was applied for about 130 yrs amongst 1742 and 1875, the year Thomaston was recognized. In February 1882, the youthful city voted 130-6 in favor of relocating the burial floor to the old Woodlawn Cemetery (later on renamed Hill Side Cemetery) in order to make home for a escalating town heart. Shortly soon after the vote, a community contractor was employed to transfer the stones and any continues to be to the new site.

In the summertime of 1882, the Daily American printed these sentiments: “Let us hope that the new site selected will be so hedged close to by legislation and public feeling that it will certainly be their previous resting place, immovable as the hills that surround and overtop their new abode.”

Tickets will be marketed in little cohorted teams of relatives and friends. Cohorted team measurements will differ from 2-8 people. Only 12 teams will be authorized on a tour through each scheduled time slot. Admission is $15 per man or woman for all ages. Tickets can be obtained at the box business or on-line at www.landmarkcommunitytheatre.org. All patrons are inspired to make their reservations early to safe a time slot for their team. For far more details get in touch with 860-283-6250 or go to the web page.

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