Rosa Hart Rededication Celebration Set Featuring Marcia Ball

Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana, get excited because the Rosa Heart Theatre is coming back. The Lake Charles Civic Center which has the Rosa Heart Theatre in it got serious damage in 2020 when Hurricane Laura and then Hurricane Delta came through six weeks apart.

The damage from the storms caused the city of Lake Charles to undergo a rebuild and so did the entire Southwest Louisiana area. Lake Charles Mayor went on Facebook to talk about the Rosa Heart Theatre and his excitement that it is coming back. Mayor Hunter said,

Having the Rosa Hart Theatre reopen after Hurricane Laura is a major milestone for the City. This should be an opportunity to celebrate the theater itself but also the life and legacy of Rosa Hart. We had several key public and private partners come to the table in a joint effort to do something very special for this grand occasion.

Scott Lewis

The Rosa Hart Rededication Celebration is set for Sunday, October 25th, 2023. The doors to the Rosa Hart Theatre will open at noon that day and will welcome folks to come to see the new theatre and also enjoy some fun festivities including a concert from a Grammy nominee.

According to Lake Charles City Hall,

The celebration will get underway at 1 p.m. with opening remarks prior to Jarius Daigle & the Network taking the stage at 1:15 p.m., filling the theatre with the sounds of soulful jazz music.
At 2 p.m., Southwest Louisiana native and GRAMMY nominee Marsha Ball will bring the house down with the toe-tapping sounds of Blues that brought her to number one on the Blues Billboard Music Chart and netted her a Blues Album of the Year Award.

Tickets are $10 per person and are available now online at ticketmaster.com. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door on Sunday, October 15th too. The city of Lake Charles advised that the proceeds from the concert will benefit the United Way of Southwest Louisiana’s SUCCESS by 6 Initiative.