

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dinner & Theatre Fundraiser for IronArts at Strega: Leading Lady
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a very special event and fundraiser for Iron Arts at Strega on Sunday, March 15!!

Doors will open at 5pm for an abundant dinner buffet spread followed by Leslie Parkkonen's original play, Leading Lady, which will be performed in our intimate space starting at 6pm. Dessert will be served at intermission and cash bar will be available throughout the event.

Round up your friends and get your tickets for this fun event to support the arts and our local theatre programming!

Limited VIP high top seats are available for purchase and all other seats will be auditorium style seating in front of the stage.

Tickets are non-refundable, but if you're not able to make it, you're still supporting an amazing cause! 50% of all ticket sales will go to Iron Arts. With more than 90 years of history in the Vista Theater there are an infinite number of stories that make up our past. We're committed to continuing to provide a performance group for stories to continue. We welcome you to explore the past and are optimistic about the future of theatre in the West End. 

LEADING LADY: Stories from the Stage...and Life is a theatrical journey that blends storytelling, musical theater, and razor-sharp humor to explore ambition, identity, love, loss, and the courage it takes to keep showing up when life goes off book.

Through iconic Broadway songs and deeply personal anecdotes, Leading Lady traces one performer’s path from an unapologetically loud, spotlight-hungry child to a woman shaped by Tourette’s, heartbreak, motherhood, divorce, and reinvention. With warmth and wit, she pulls back the curtain on the realities behind the applause—missed cues, failed relationships, bodies that don’t always cooperate, and dreams that refuse to die quietly.

This is not a nostalgia act or a greatest-hits revue. It’s a raw, funny, and fiercely honest meditation on what it means to lose the roles you thought defined you—and to discover that the most powerful part you’ll ever play is the one where you choose yourself.

By the final bow, Leading Lady reminds us that the ingenue may fade, but the woman who survives, leads, and stands center stage anyway?

She’s the real star.
Accompanied by Marcia Hicks, Allyse Belanger, and Claire Decker. 

Tickets: https://resy.com/cities/negaunee-mi/venues/strega-nonna/events/dinner-a-show-iron-arts-paac-vista-theatre-benefit-leading-lady-2026-03-15?
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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/negaunee/dinner-and-theatre-fundraiser-for-ironarts-at-strega-leading-lady/200029687402651
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, nonprofit, performances, health-wellness, entertainment, meditation, it, live-music, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 70

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://resy.com/cities/negaunee-mi/venues/strega-nonna/events/dinner-a-show-iron-arts-paac-vista-theatre-benefit-leading-lady-2026-03-15?seats=2&date=2026-02-12&utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=negaunee-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Negaunee
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Strega Nonna
- **lat**: 46.49922
- **long**: -87.61326
- **full address**: Strega Nonna, 432 Iron St, Negaunee, MI 49866-1852, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Historic Vista Theater/PAAC (https://allevents.in/org/historic-vista-theater-paac/24850171)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Strega Nonna, 432 Iron St, Negaunee, MI 49866-1852, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Historic Vista Theater/PAAC
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre, nonprofit, performances, health-wellness, entertainment, meditation, it, live-music, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Dinner & Theatre Fundraiser for IronArts at Strega: Leading Lady ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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