Masonic Temple celebrates 100 years with Centennial Gala

You'll have fun. We're a fun group. All right, Dean. I mean, what? I feel like we just got ready for the party. We're all distracted by the moon. I know. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm supposed to be reading. I'm sorry. The Masonic Temple, which is just a really cool place, celebrating its centennial anniversary this year. Yes, you are invited to a night of live music dinner. It's hosted by yours truly. Sales Director Angela Spadelli is here, and Chef Brian Bulo is here in the kitchen talking about three-cheese tortellini, which we'll get to in a minute but first of all listen Dean was just saying we were at a wedding there um a couple weeks ago yeah and it's such a great place there's all these different levels looking around at everything yeah so much to take in tell us about the celebration yeah so 100 years right it's our centennial it's phenomenal you know i think it's more important for us to give back and to have it's a public event that we're celebrating so there's tickets available but you know we every weekend we're filled with concerts with weddings with memorable moments that we celebrate. We have a chapel, two, three ballrooms, and then the two theaters. So this gala is important to us because without the generations of individuals and people from Detroit, Michiganers, coming to celebrate every weekend, we wouldn't still be here today. So we wanted to give back and do something big and celebrate with everyone. What's the square footage on this place? Do you know? You don't know? Okay. to give you some what are your coordinates how do we uh to give you some insight the ballroom say 10,000 17,000 square feet wow so it's huge and one of the largest in Detroit honestly do you two still get lost there at all when you're in the building how could you not definitely i heard you went missing for four days is that true the running joke is don't lean on the wall because you might fall in wait what do we before we'll keep talking about what are we going to cook So I got three cheese tortellini and we're gonna have we started off with a mirepoix okay just fancy for garlic or onion celery and carrots and then you saute up this is supposed to come out to and then you cook that down with the tomatoes and we get our marinara sauce. There's the sauce, perfect. And then we're gonna do a pomodoro so that's just creamy marinara sauce. This steak is so good I don't know what's going on here chef but man so we wanted to feature some of the items that would be displayed at the gala so we're going to do a filet with a nice hollandaise with the buttercream sauce caper sauce potatoes here's some appetizers that we featured during cocktail hour um but really the entertainment the lineup that we have for the gala is fabulous too yeah we have an exclusive fever candlelight experience during cocktail hour so is it the candlelight concerts yes that we do monthly yes we're gonna do one for about an hour and a half um during cocktail and then we have ben sharky and his band who is a michigan native so we love him and then a surprise well not really surprised but i'm telling you guys for today a performance by the detroit youth choir which is really great wonderful so um right after dinner they'll come out and do a quick little set and then we'll finish the night off with dancing with Mike Stafford productions hey here's a dumb question that doesn't matter, but I've always been very curious about it. How long does it take to light all those candles? Honestly, because it's so stunning. Well, definitely not my job, but that's our catering team. They take care of that. Now, is Jay Towers, he likes to do a little Frank Sinatra song and dance. Do you have that on the schedule for him? We actually have it. We have it timed for four minutes. Four minutes every half hour. Minus four minutes. What was the original usage of this, of the Masonic Temple? So the Masonic Temple, the history, is the largest temple in the world. So it was home to Masons, Freemasons, to celebrate and to congregate, right? So it's basically, it was built for them, and it had so many different features. Obviously, when we first opened, the entertainment back then in the 20s was theater. So the ballrooms and the theaters are designed that way and still kept to this day. Large cathedral ceilings, beautiful architecture, color, velvet curtain, all of that. Wait, do you know where the gold is on Oak Island? Because they're always talking about Freemasons on Oak Island. I'm just saying. I just thought maybe you know there's something there. No, I think that's still a hidden secret. I don't mean to interrupt, but we're going to have to wrap up. The tortellini's done? Oh, tortellini's done. Okay. We'll get Dino to put it in. Do you have a little serving spoon? Yes, let's try that. Here, let me give you a time for the tortellini. Here's the details up on the screen. Alan has made this salad. It's a salad. I like that stuff with the salad. It's a delicious salad. It's a delicious salad, Alan. Mm, I'm gonna mix this with my pasta, you know? Yes, that should be good. Head to the website, tickets still available, right? Yes, head to the website and our Instagram, Masonic Detroit. Tickets are still available, so we hope to see you guys there. Great seeing you.