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The CentreStage Program
Our patrons love the CentreStage program - and the arts-friendly businesses in it!
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Norton Center's new website!
Welcome to our new website, developed with LoGograph.com database technologies
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Big Time Facilities!
Our facilities are the finest in Kentucky... and all are available for rental and events.
Word from the director
George Foreman, Managing Director

The Norton Center is a very important feature of our community. We're certainly unique for a community of this size. I don't know of many other places that have a performing arts center of this caliber. Originally we thought we needed an auditorium to house the college community's functions. But Mr. Newlin challenged us to think in grander terms. He understood the arts, and he was also a very good fund-raiser. The resulting 85,000-square-foot complex, opened in 1973, houses several performance spaces. The acoustics are absolutely phenomenal. I don't think we'd be successful if we brought in only classical or only country or only rock. We've had the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra and then moved on to Camelot and The Barber of Seville. I don't think in terms of 'challenging' people. I prefer to think about it as raising their educational level - a way of giving our audience a chance to have new doors opened for them.

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