Despite challenges, SPAC reports growth | The Daily Gazette
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On the eve of its first concert of the season, leaders at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center looked back on a challenging year in which, perhaps surprisingly, it grew. It added new facilities and ended the year with a surplus of more than $400,000.
“On Monday, May 18 of 2020, SPAC did the unthinkable,” said President and CEO Elizabeth Sobol during an annual meeting on Thursday. “In the middle of glorious high spring weather, after 53 continuous years of presenting on our beloved and legendary stage, we canceled an entire season and left the doors to the amphitheater locked — a profound and solemn acknowledgment during some of the darkest, early days of the pandemic. And yet, here we are. After what now seems an eternity, the amphitheater is open, the lawn is thick and green, and our first concert takes place tomorrow night.”