A hearty bunch of Strand volunteers under the leadership of Cindy H. gathered in the frigid November weather to represent the Strand at the 2008 Shelbyville Holiday Parade.   There was candy for the kids, and flyers for the parents.   The group walked behind the pied piper at the Calliope advertising our free holiday movie.

Our movie was a success.  A small, but brave crowd came for the evenings entertainment.   We planned to get our films going before the end of the first year of operation.  We made it with 6 weeks to spare!

The Calliope lead the way to the Strand!

Strand friend Linda S. helps line up the parade floats:

The Chamber of Commerce helps us advertise our Free Movie:

Santa toots the notes and the crowd follows:

On Thursday November 20, 2008 the Freeman Family Funeral Homes held a Remembrance Service.   This service honored those how passed away in 2008.   There was musical entertainment from Richard Gray on the organ, Kathleen Miller vocalist, and the Gwenville Church Handbell Choir.

Below are Greg Bate, Jan (Spear) Benner, Jenny (Woollen) Bittick, and Melanie Thomas on a tour of the Strand during the weekend of their 30th Class Reunion

Our neighbors and supporters Stage Door Graphics donated signs for the exterior of our theatre.    Stage Door is owned by the DeWitt family, former owners of the Strand.    Their years of experience in operating our theatre is always available and greatly appreciated.    Bob Schlick is holding one of the new signs shortly before installation.   Thank you Stage Door Graphics.

At long last, David Bottom of Lexington Kentucky was able to visit the Strand.   David is one of the few theatre organ technicians with experience on Louisville Pipe Organs.   He has been a supporter of our project and helped us in many ways.    His knowledge of the Louisville company and understanding of how they did things will be valuable as we rebuild our organ.    David has found many "pieces and parts" for our project that are extrememly scarce.   In addition to being a meticulous organ technician, David is an expert on safes and their construction.   We still have our safe in the theatre.   It is heavy (1000 pounds) and we don’t quite know what to do with it.   David is helping us with that too.

David was one of the participants in our acquisition of the Louisville Pipe Organ originally installed in the Oriental Theatre in Indianapolis.   In his many trips to this area, he has yet to visit the Strand.   That was finally rectified on June 30, 2008.   We appreciate David’s help and his interest in our project.

Along with the Strand, David is a principle in the restoration of the Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ from the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington.   You can visit his project at http://www.kywurlitzer.com/

The Shelby County Players May 14, 2008 performance of "Musical Comedy Murders 1940" will benefit the Strand Theatre.     This performance will take place at the Shelby Community Theatre at 16 W. Tompkins Street.

Today David M. Finkel representing the Board of Directors and the volunteers of Strand Theatre of Shelbyville, Inc, owners of the Strand, paid the last of the vendors for their work or products used during our renovation.    These three companies waited patiently as we were finally able to meet our obligations.   

A big Strand Thank You to:

Shelbyville Paint and Wallpaper

Advanced Plumbing Contractors:

and Builders Lumber and Hardware:

Thank you for helping make our Theatre a reality!

Thanks to everyone who helped out over the past few months to completely renovate the Strand Theatre. You can find several photos from all the work on our flickr page.

While we are transitioning to our new website,
we want to make sure you can still find the old site,
which is active here.

Thanks for your patience.

Welcome to our New Strand-Theatre-Shelbyville.org website!

Here we will feature upcoming showtimes, information and history on the theatre, calendar events and much more interactive fun.
You can still access the old website here. Check back often for additions and updates. Thanks for visiting.