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Mount Baker Theatre to get new seats, carpeting among upgrades for 100th season

Inside of the Mount Baker Theatre. Photo: Saga Communications/Ellie Coberly


BELLINGHAM, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – The Mount Baker Theatre is getting some major upgrades ahead of its landmark 100th season.

The theatre is closed over the next few weeks while its main stage gets new seats and carpeting.

It’s been over 30 years since the theatre got new seats.

The new seats will include cupholders, which the theatre noted have been “long-requested.”

The renovations also include the restoration of a pipe organ that provided the sound to the theatre’s first-ever movie screening in April 1927. According to spokesperson Lorin O’Grady, the organ was removed last August, and it is currently in Chicago for restoration by a company that focuses on organ restoration.

The restored organ will be featured during a re-screening of that same movie – called “Slide, Kelly, Slide” – on its 100th anniversary next April.

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