Construction underway at Dolly Parton’s pirate-themed restaurant

Construction is underway on Dolly Parton’s pirate-themed restaurant in Panama City Beach, Fla.

When the $60-million, 60,000-square-foot venue opens in spring 2025, it will include 1,000 seats from which visitors can dine and watch pirate ships battle, according to Florida station WFLA.

Entertainment at Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show will also feature mermaids, acrobatics, pyrotechnics and music written by Parton.

“Everyone knows that I dream big, so we are going ‘overboard’ with the details as we prepare everything — from the show to the four-course pirates’ feast to the exterior of the building itself,” she said in a December press release announcing the new venture.

Parton’s Florida panhandle project won’t be her maiden voyage into the world of dinner theater. The beloved “9 to 5” singer opened a pirate-themed dinner theater in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 2011 and another in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. — home of the famous Dollywood — in 2019.

But opening a new restaurant hasn’t distracted Parton from music. In November, she released her star-studded debut rock album, “Rockstar.” That release came a year after Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Parton is also an 11-time Grammy Award honoree and a 10-time Guinness Record Records holder, including the record for longest span of No. 1 hits on the Top Country Albums chart by a female artist.

She said she was twice offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Trump Administration, but was unable to accept it due to personal and travel complications. Parton, who turned 78 last month, said if she accepted that award now, she fears it would appear to be a political statement.

Her influence has been felt worldwide, including in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where a nightclub inspired by her 1973 hit “Jolene” opened last year.