A financially troubled theater company in Ventura County which had announced plans to permanently shut down at the end of the current season has gotten a reprieve.
Officials with Cabrillo Music Theater said they were going to go through with the final two show of this season, but cancel the 2016-2017 productions. They told KCLU News that they would need at least $200,000 in donations to save the company, but felt it was such a big reach that they wouldn’t attempt fundraising efforts.
Cabrillo isn’t saying how much money they received once word about the crisis was publicized, but it’s enough to offer a reduced season. The company will produce Evita, Peter Pan, and Sister Act, but will cut a planned production of Tarzan.
Cabrillo’s current season production of “Children of Eden” opens Friday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. This summer, it will stage Disney’s “Little Mermaid.”
