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Performing Arts
Virginia
City Players. Toll-free: 1-800-829-2969. The Opera House in
historic Virginia City, Montana, established in 1949, is the oldest
continuous summer theatre in the Northwest. The Virginia City Players
perform nightly (with exception of Monday) mid-June through Labor Day.
Performances consist of a turn of the century style Melodrama followed by a
Varied Vigorous Vagary of Vivacious Variety Acts, otherwise known as
Vaudeville!
Museums and Exhibits
Alder
Gulch Short Line Railroad.
The
"Frontier House" Museum and Exhibit. P, O. Box 338,
Virginia City, MT 59755. Phone: 406-843-5247; Fax: 406-843-5468. The
museum features artifacts used in filming
�The Frontier House�, a three-part series of exploration of life on
the 1883 Montana frontier. The crew and cast of " Frontier House" spent most of 2001 in Montana filming the series in which three modern day families time-travel back to live as they would have on the 1883 Rocky Mountain frontier.
Tours -
Stagecoach Tours
Virginia City Overland Stage. P.O. Box 224,
Virginia City, MT 59755. Phone: 406-843-5364. "Frontier House"
Related Sites
PBS
Frontier House. A PBS production in six 1-hour segments which
premiered April 29, 2002 followed three families experiencing life in 1883, enduring hunger, fatigue, blistering heat, a June blizzard, and more. Frontier
House: 21st-century Americans try homesteading like 1800s
pioneers. A September 10, 2001 preview of the PBS television
production published in Current, a biweekly newspaper that covers public
broadcasting.
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