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Lights out for Akron dinner theater
La Comedia in Springboro is now Ohio’s only professional dinner theater.
Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron, which was the biggest in the country, closed its doors Sunday, Jan. 4, due to accumulating debt. More than 150 employees were let go.
Executive producer and CEO Joseph Palmer based the decision on a poor economic outlook, decreasing attendance and “the reversal of certain stakeholders’ promises, which would have had a major impact.”
The theater plans to liquidate assets estimated at $2.68 million. Palmer said liabilities total more than $6 million.
Carousel opened in 1973 in a converted supermarket in Ravenna, in nearby Portage County. It moved to its Akron home in 1988. The final production there was the musical “All Shook Up.”
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