The Gold Fever Follies offers a new family-friendly musical comedy every summer with cancan dancing, original music and exciting characters based on Rossland’s gold rush days of the late 1890s.
Runs July & August, 3pm and 7:30pm shows Wed. thru Sun. (No matinee on July 1.)

Every summer since 1987, the Rossland Gold Fever Follies has entertained audiences with an original musical, each loosely based on the historic events and people of Rossland’s early gold rush days. This year’s script is an adaptation of the Follies’ fan-favourite show last produced in 2009, Hot Time in the Old Town, which was based on the 1902 fire that burnt down most of Rossland’s downtown core. Completely re-written by Lucas Myers with new music created by Miller Mason, this version of the story takes place during the summer of 1896, the year the first baby in Rossland was born.

When ex-librarian Miss Matilde Matheson moves to Rossland during its hottest summer on record, she has one big dream: to open up her very own hotel. Assisted by new friends and allies, she purchases a newly-vacated building complete with a piano, and starts the process of turning it into a hotel. The only opposition to her plan—a Spokane-based performer named Eliza LaLonde, who claims to own the very piano that is the centerpiece of the building.

Filled with colourful characters and catchy tunes (some of which will be recognizable to long-time Follies fans), Hot Time in the Old Town chronicles Matilde’s journey from withdrawn Rossland newcomer to the centre of an unlikely group of friends. But will she be able to keep her friends by her side while she continues to run from the past she hides from them?

written by Acacia Roshel; adaptations by Lucas Myers

In the booming city of Rossland, BC, where the gold was plentiful and the women were…not so much, Yours Truly takes a humorous spin on the wave of fraud and forgery that followed the rise of matrimonial advertisements in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when lonely hearts took to the papers to find their perfect match.

Inspired by true events, this musical follows Nellie Lake, an English woman who left everything behind to journey across the ocean and marry a man she corresponded with through letters. After arriving in Rossland, she was met with the shocking reality that her supposed fiancé was nowhere to be found…

With letters flying, secrets unfolding, romance brewing, and a detective hot on the case, Yours Truly is sure to keep you laughing… and perhaps falling in love.

(Show runs approx. 90 minutes. No intermission)

co written by Landon LaFond and Lucas Myers

Every summer since 1987, the Rossland Gold Fever Follies has entertained audiences with an original musical, each loosely based on the historic events and people of Rossland’s early gold rush days. This year’s Casino Rossland, co-written by Landon LaFond and Lucas Myers, is based on actual events of 1902 during a time of great financial stress in Rossland. The city was almost bankrupt. To remedy this, the new mayor, John Stillwell Clute, re-hired a corrupt police chief named John Ingram whom he had just fired a year earlier. Together, the pair hatched a scheme to end the bankruptcy involving gambling—with questionable payoffs to city officials and newspapers.
Filled with real life personalities from Rossland’s past, including Clute, Ingram, Mrs. Allan, and Pastor Morgan, Casino Rossland tells the story of how the people of Rossland worked to overcome adversity while tensions in the city were high. Place your bets on who will come out on top, because things are about to get dicey.

(Show runs approx. 90 minutes. No intermission)

an adaptation by LUCAS MYERS
based on an original script by Brian Turner

Murphy Inn is a bit off the beaten path, and that’s how the proprietor, Oliver Murphy, prefers it. But some of the new hires have gotten it into their heads that to keep pace with the rest of Rossland’s hospitality establishments, entertainment should be on offer. Coinciding with the inaugural performance is an unfortunate snow shovelling incident which renders all those inside trapped in the confines of the Murphy Inn with no way out. How will they handle the claustrophobic miner? How will they deal with a dwindling supply of victuals and secrets being revealed? More importantly, will they be able to put on the show that will put them on the map? Once again mixing in a dose of actual Rossland history with songs, dance and a shadow puppet show or two, Trapped at the Murphy Inn continues the Gold Fever Follies tradition of bringing history to life with a story that will delight and entertain.

(Show runs approx. 90 minutes. No intermission)

Book & Lyrics by Marnie Jacobsen

This summer’s show, “WHAT’S IN A NAME?”, centers around Ross Thompson’s naming of Red Mountain Camp as a proper township. Also prominent in the storyline is the infamous serial-monogamous Mrs. Allan of the Allan Hotel. And of course, there is the love story…

(Show runs approx. 90 minutes. No intermission)

Vocals! Dance! Instrumentals! Humour! You name it…this evening’s got it!
You won’t want to miss this evening of great entertainment! Get your tickets early!

Thurs., June 16 at the Miners Hall 7:00pm
Advance Online Tickets $12 (email: GoldFeverFollies87@gmail.com)
Or pick up Advance Tickets at OUT OF THE CELLAR or THE COLANDER. (Cash only sales)
Tickets at the Door $15
(for more info ph. 250-231-5009)

The GOLD FEVER FOLLIES ARE BACK for the 2021 season!

The Great Invention

Book & Music by Chris Coutts

As usual, we’ve had fun melding fact with fiction in writing THE GREAT INVENTION. What hints can we give you about its storyline? Well…the same hints we gave last year.
The miners are digging up gold, love and happiness, but when a dancehall girl invents a new contraption, it could put all three at risk.
Now let’s hope that COVID doesn’t get in the way again so that we can get back to entertaining you!

GOLD FEVER FOLLIES OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 2020 SEASON

After much deliberation, and with heavy hearts, the Gold Fever Follies is officially announcing the cancelation of our 2020 summer production.

We have finally resigned ourselves to the reality that we can’t possibly perform our show throughout the summer and still keep all involved—from our board volunteers, to our cast members and their host families, to the audience in general—safe, healthy and COVID-19 free.

We have updated our website to introduce you to our 2020 cast whom you WOULD have had the pleasure of watching…had COVID-19 not hit the world so hard.

Join the cast of the Rossland
Gold Fever Follies
in its 34th Season

2019: The Big BOOM Theory

As usual, we’ve had fun melding fact and fiction with this summer’s show, The Big BOOM Theory, and, as you can guess, it has characters based on the popular TV series The Big Bang Theory. It follows the story of a young female metallurgist who travels to the Rossland area to get work at Consolidated Mining and Smelting —the predecessor of TECK. But as can be expected, she faces that glass ceiling that women are still confronted with today—and is refused work because she is a woman. Having run out of money, she is left with little options but to work in the Bodega Hotel as a dance hall girl. But she refuses to give up on the idea of working as the trained scientist that she is, and has to figure out a way to prove herself. How she goes about that will be revealed once you see the show!