Celebrating 100 years on Main Street, KPAC presents a Centennial Showcase featuring the world’s best early American musical theater band, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, in live performance with local dancers, actors, singers, and acrobats. Our vaudeville show will replicate the performance traditions of the Kenworthy Players from the early 20th century while celebrating today’s leading artists on the Palouse.

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is the world’s only year-round, professional ensemble re-creating “America’s Original Music” – the syncopated sounds of early musical theater, silent cinema, and vintage dance. The PRO came into being as the result of Rick Benjamin’s 1985 discovery of thousands of turn-of-the-century orchestra scores once belonging to Victrola recording star Arthur Pryor. In 1988 the Orchestra made its formal debut at Alice Tully Hall – the first concert ever presented at Lincoln Center by such an ensemble. Since then PRO has appeared at hundreds of leading arts venues, including the Ravinia Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, Chautauqua, the Brucknerhaus (Austria), the New York 92nd Street Y, and the American Dance Festival.

Preferred seating ticket holders will be able to choose their seats from the first six rows in the theatre upon arrival.