The Princess Wilderness Lodge Dinner Theatre presents a musical called the Music of Denali. As you step into the building we are immediately transported back to the gold mining days of the 1800. Everyone is in costume of the period. We were seated at a table with two other couples (total of 8 people) and the “all you can eat” meal of baked salmon, potatoes, barbecue ribs were served in old tin pie plates- family style. We had a great opportunity to visit with the other people and find out what they had been doing. After the wonderful baked apple dessert was served, all the waiters and waitress moved to the stage for the performance. It was a great show about the history of Denali- the Great One, renamed Mt. KcKinley after President McKinley’s visit there. The play, The Land of the Midnight Sun, recounts the first ascent of Mt. McKinley in the 1800s and they got the audience involved by teaching us a song with hand gestures. It was a riot.
Track a little bear- drink a little hooch
Tell a loota bull, eat a little moose
Build a little fire- gotta keep warm
Kill those skeeters- before they swarm
Eat a little food- have a lotta fun
We’re in the Land of the Midnight Sun
The cost of the dinner and show was $25.00 and was a complete evening of fun.