Greensburg will celebrate its 51st annual Luminary Night beginning at 5 p.m. Dec. 3.

About 400 luminaries will light the way for visitors along Main, Otterman and West Second streets and Pennsylvania Avenue, and a Christmas tree will illuminate the South Pennsylvania Avenue Parklet.

The Downtown Greensburg Project, which organizes the event, will help visitors preserve memories of the special night by offering a free digital photo at a booth in the parklet.

Stage Right will ramp up the cheer with festivities in the parking lot of its performing arts school at 105 W. Fourth St.

“When folks enter the parking lot, we want them to feel as if they’ve wandered into Santa’s Village,” said founding artistic director Tony Marino.

“Our scenic designer and resident projection guru, Mark Kissner, has mapped the face of our building with computer software that allows him to create these incredible moving projections that can transform into almost anything,” Marino said. “We have set a show to music, and that will be playing every 20 minutes. It will also serve as the backdrop to (a) Stage Right Sensations performance, and will transform into the North Pole when Buddy the Elf appears.”

The appearance by Buddy the Elf will be a teaser for Stage Right’s upcoming production of “Elf the Musical.”

The Sensations will perform their Christmas show at 6 and 6:45 p.m. in the parking lot and at 7:30 p.m. outside Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at 140 S. Pennsylvania Ave.

Stage Right’s costumed princess characters, including Snow White, Belle, Ariel and the Snow Queen, also will be on hand to greet the crowd.

A Candy Cane Lane will be set up from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on the porch of the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library at 237 S. Pennsylvania Ave., where kids will be treated to a goodie bag. “A special visitor from the North Pole” also will be waving from inside the building.

Downtown merchants will remain open until 9 p.m.

“Each store will have some sort of promotion of its own,” said Kevin Miscik, owner of Lapels, A Fine Men’s Clothier.

At Lapels, shoppers will find discounts on merchandise, along with complimentary candy and gift wrapping on purchases.

Because of budget and covid-19 safety restrictions, there will be no horse and carriage rides this year, organizers said.

Volunteers are needed to set out luminaries from 4:15 to 5 p.m. Dec. 3, and to clean up from 8:45 to 9:30 p.m. Anyone interested is asked to email hello@downtowngreensburg pa.us or message DGP on its Facebook page.

Details: downtowngreensburgpa.us

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