No Greater Love : 'No Greater Love' ticket sales brisk

Mother Lode Theatre predicts sell-out; copper coins to be sold at theater during shows

Combined ticket sales for the two performances of "No Greater Love" have almost topped 1,300.

An original musical production, "No Greater Love" commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine Fire that killed 168 miners, still the worst hard-rock mining disaster in U.S. history.

The Main Floor is nearly sold out. As of June 1, the Main Floor had 290 seats sold for Friday, June 9, and 286 seats sold for Saturday, June 10. The Main area seats 303. The Mezzanine, which holds 361 seats, has sold 279 for Friday and 257 for Saturday.

The Loge and the Balcony have the most seats available. The front three rows in front of the Balcony, The Loge holds 182 seats and has 21 sold for Friday and 45 sold for Saturday. The Balcony, which seats 346, has 46 seats sold for Friday and 72 seats for Saturday. Total seats sold as of Thursday, June 1, was 636 for Friday and 660 for Saturday, or 1,296 for both nights.

Advance tickets are available at the Mother Lode Theatre box office, 326 W. Park St. in Uptown Butte, phone (406) 723-3602. Advance tickets are also available online: www.buttearts.org. (A processing fee applies for online purchases.)

Commemorative copper coins for "No Greater Love" will also be for sale in the theater lobby during show times. The cost will be $6 per coin and another $1 for the plastic cover. The copper coins, –– now selling for $5 per coin and another $1 for the case –– are currently on sale at the Butte Archives, 17 W. Quartz, and at the Granite Mountain Bank, 605 Dewey Blvd.

Below are photos from recent rehearsals in the Pioneer Club Ballroom. The "Njo Greater Love" cast has also rehearsed in the ballroom of the Knights of Columbus #668, and the 10-piece orchestra is rehearsing at Butte Central High School Auditorium.