The $35 million Mountain Laurel Performing Arts Center in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains was a grand plan that quickly became an unmitigated disaster, going out of business less than a year after opening amid accusations of incompetence and misuse of public funds. But “the complex, which was built with the help of a $15 million state grant, is reopening with a fresh infusion of public money, including $500,000 from the state and $750,000 in projected annual revenue from a new hotel tax in Pike County.” Gone, however, are most of Mountain Laurel’s original grand plans, such as playing summer host to the Pittsburgh Symphony. This summer’s lineup includes mostly “blues, pop, rock, country, jazz and Latin music, genres that typically attract healthy audiences, in hopes of meeting ambitious attendance goals and buying more time to stabilize the center’s finances.”