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Title: Municipal Auditorium
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Music Hall Prepped For its Next 70 Years
Description: A $13.4 million renovation of the Music Hall is about to begin with completion in February, 2007. The Music Hall opened in 1935 with its art deco fixtures and styling. With the renovation the stage will be 15 feet deeper and much infrastructure will get modernized. "The theater's 2,400 seats will be replaced with slightly wider chairs and then realigned for better audience sight lines." The city will use the old seats elsewhere including the City Council's meeting chambers. Renovation design is being done by Helix Architecture + Design, Kansas City and Holzman Moss Architecture, New York.
Date: 2006-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Music Hall Shake-Up In Works
Description: The league paragraph of the story states: "Theater League, a nonprofit organization that has presented Broadway musicals and plays for 30 years, could be ousted from the Music Hall and replaced by a company that presents Broadway shows across North America." The group being considered is called Live Nation and if approved by the City Council would be the new tenant beginning with the 2007-2008 season. The $14 million dollar renovation of Music Hall will be complete by then. Live Nation is also allied with Starlight Theatre.
Date: 2006-06-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Music Hall
Description: View from the stage of the empty Music Hall at Municipal Auditorium.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: All the World's a Stage? Not Here
Description: The closing of both the Music Hall and Midland Theater for renovation in 2006 will create a shortage of performance spaces for local arts groups. Local organizations such as the ballet and Harriman series are scrambling to find venues for productions.
Date: 2005-11-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Music Hall
Description: View from stage into empty seats of Music Hall.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Music Hall
Description: View of Orchestra Promenade in Music Hall through decorative grillwork over a vent.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Orchestra during Performance
Description: View from stage of orchestra during performance at the Music Hall. Conductor unidentified.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Music Hall
Description: View from stage of audience of unidentified children in Music Hall.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Music Hall
Description: View from empty seats toward stage in Music Hall.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Unidentified men and women entering Music Hall, at night.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: View looking southeast of the entrance to Municipal Auditorium located along 13th Street between Wyandotte and Central streets. Cars parked along 13th Street can be seen. A sign for the Municipal Auditorium Music Hall is also in view. The Kansas City Power and Light Building can be seen in the background.
Date: 1945~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC166 Municipal Auditorium Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains 35 black and white 8 x 10 photographs from a photo album by the Harkins Commercial Photo Company in Kansas City. The images are of interior and exterior views of the Municipal Auditorium taken around the time it was built in 1934-1935.
Date: 1934/1935
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Description: View of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance. Believed to be taken in the Music Hall.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Music Hall
Description: Interior view of an unidentified audience in the Music Hall of Municipal Auditorium.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Music Hall
Description: Interior view of the stage and seating at the Music Hall which is part of the Municipal Auditorium and located between Wyandotte and Central streets on 13th Street in downtown Kansas City. Identified as home of the orchestra.
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: University of Kansas City Chorus and Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Description: Group portrait of the University of Kansas City Chorus with Wynn York as director and the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra with Efrem Kurtz as conductor taken at the Music Hall.
Date: 1948-01-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City's Dream of a Temple of Music
Description: Illustration and article about the planned music hall (later built as part of Municipal Auditorium in the 1930s), showing designs "by Courtlandt Van Brunt, architect associated with A. H. Buckley."
Date: 1923-08-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 2004 Conclave, The Heartland of America, Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma
Description: A supplement to Marquee, the Journal of the Theatre Historical Society of America, features several Kansas City theaters. They include: Aladdin, Englewood in Independence, Mo., Gem, Folly, Lyric, Madrid, Music Hall, Midland, Uptown, and Granada in Kansas City, Kansas, plus other theaters in the Kansas and Oklahoma area. Also contains a short article about the Boller Brothers, theater architects.
Date: 2004
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Arts Groups Lack Stage Directions for Future
Description: If built, the performing arts center could have a big impact on existing downtown performance venues. Industry experts say that the arts community needs to think about how "older theaters will coexist with a behemoth just blocks away at 16th and Broadway".
Date: 2004-09-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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