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[chittlins]

http://5newsonline.com/2013/01/03/the-great-passion-play-resurrected/

[Junior]

The local Fox affiliate in NW Arkansas said the play is back! Did not hear details. Follow up ASAP.
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(ADD) Ah...just read the link on Chittlins post above. It answers all questions! Thanks!

[biscuitcreek]

Here's an update from KY3 in Springfield. Goal is to open the first weekend in May with 3 shows a week (definitely a scaled back schedule from previous years).

http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-passion-play-owners-plan-to-resume-shows-in-may-in-eureka-springs-20130103,0,3838367.story

[Junior]

Arkansas Democrat Gazette today reports the folks operating the Passion Play at Eureka Springs have paid back the tax debt and bank on things, but still owes $2.5 million on loans. The operators say they have had a good season, with average attendance last month at 500 per show, up about 20%. He said if the play did not have the debt on the loan, everything would be fine. The total paid on tax debt and what was owed to Cornerstone Bank at Eureka amounted to just under $114,000.

[chittlins]

Arkansas Democrat Gazette today reports the folks operating the Passion Play at Eureka Springs have paid back the tax debt and bank on things, but still owes $2.5 million on loans. The operators say they have had a good season, with average attendance last month at 500 per show, up about 20%. He said if the play did not have the debt on the loan, everything would be fine. The total paid on tax debt and what was owed to Cornerstone Bank at Eureka amounted to just under $114,000.

Here's hoping for a strong summer season. I read that article and they hope the attendance creeps up to 650 a show. Still, there's very little advertising here locally.

[DeweyBald]

Chittlins-you from Eureka?

[chittlins]

Chittlins-you from Eureka?

No,Fayetteville... but I consider all of NWA local really, I work with a guy that drives to Fayetteville from Holiday Island to work.

[Junior]

I live in NW AR, too. Anything west of the imaginary line from Harrison to Fort Smith is home territory as far as I am concerned.

[okiebluegrass]

Bluegrass widow went to high school in Elkins (outside Fayetteville). For me the line for 'home' goes from Tulsa on the West to Harrison in the East, north to Springfield and South to aound I-40. I may live in OKC but my heart's still in the Ozarks

[DeweyBald]

I've got in laws that live in Bella Vista, my wife is from Strawberry and my dad was from Mountain View.  I've got a lot of Arkansas ties, but I'm Okie born and bred.  I live in Cushing between Tulsa and Stillwater.  So from Stillwater to about Memphis is "home".

[clancomyn]

For those wanting a concise history of ES, Brooks Blevin's Hill Folks: Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image has a chapter devoted to the subject. It makes for interesting reading, including a discussion of the founder of the Great Passion Play, Gerald L.K. Smith, who was, ah...a very...colorful character to say the least.

T.

[Junior]

So colorful, even most politicians were afraid to get too close to him. Now he and his wife are buried in a crypt at the foot of the Christ of the Ozarks statue.

[sanddunerider]

http://www.ozarkssentinel.com/great-passion-play-to-see-7-7-million-visitors.html?fb_source=pubv1

[sanddunerider]

just posted:  record attendance, may not be able to read complete article.

http://www.ozarkssentinel.com/passion-play-sets-five-year-record.html

[okiebluegrass]

Good to hear. My preacher and I were discussing it last night.