Minn. Bar Cleverly Gets Around Smoking Ban
Life is a stage for smokers at a bar in Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota, and they’re all merely players. That’s the clever way the bar owners are getting around the state’s anti-smoking measure which provides a loophole for theatrical performances.
Ergo, on Saturday nights, the bar itself becomes a stage for a theatrical production, its patrons are actors, and the cigarettes in their hands are props.
Co-owner Sheila Kromer says business had been down and she wanted to test the law.
“Several of the legislators said, ‘You know, you’ve got to be innovative. Come up with something to get the people in your bar.’ Right? OK. What’s wrong with a theater night? Is that not being creative?” Kromer said.
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I like the idea of a bar being turned into a theatre. Should improve the quality of conversation and pick-up lines.
But the few times I acted, while the cigarettes were real, the whiskey was not. It was tepid tea that eventually grew mold on the top. If it’s going to be a real theatre, it needs real cigarettes and fake whiskey.
Otherwise, how’s anybody going to remember their lines?
Then again, forgetting their lines could make for some good improv.