When you visit the Bastrop Opera House, you are visiting a piece of Bastrop and Texas history.  Bastrop merchants P. Otto Elzner and S.D. Green agreed to build the Opera House in 1889 at a reported cost of $15,000.  Now 113 year later, more than three times that amount is needed just to repair the roof to preserve this unique piece of history. 

The historic Bastrop Opera House has launched an emergency capital campaign to repair the roof. We have a ways to go, but we will get there with your help.  Thank you to all who of you who donated, entertained, volunteered, participated, appreciated, and joined us.  Contributors and Donors Thank You List.

The Bastrop Opera House is the heart of live theater in Bastrop county and needs to be preserved. The funding of a new roof is crucial.  After the incredible heat of last summer, the rain of this new year have pointed out more leaks in the over-twenty-year-old tin roof.  With contraction and expansion the nails have popped out and where there had been tar and sealant along the down spout alleys, cracks have occurred.  Rather than merely patching repeatedly what is there, a complete overhaul needs to be initiated.  Therefore, several fundraising activities have been discussed including using special music programs like the Classic Country Music Show, where the proceeds will be placed in our building fund for a preservation project of this nature.

You may send a donations for the "roof restoration project" to the Bastrop Opera House, P.O. Box 691, Bastrop, Texas 78602.  You may also make an online donation of any amount on the Bastrop Opera House site at http://bastropoperahouse.com/sponsorship.htm, or you may donate by clicking this button, and entering how much you'd like to donate.

On July 28, 2012. bakers, cooks, confectioners, chefs, and pastry makers with big hearts and willing hands donated their luscious creations of their red-velvet recipes, to the Opera House!  They were judged, and the next day Opera House patrons purchased them in an auction to raise money to repair the Opera House roof.

The seven judges from Austin chose Joanne McCoy's delicious red velvet cake as the winner! 
Honorable mentions were:  Sam Damon, Denise Rogers, and Will Holcomb.