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Music Hall Prepped For its Next 70 Years
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006-07-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Music Hall Shake-Up In Works
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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.
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Date
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2006-06-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Music Hall
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View from the stage of the empty Music Hall at Municipal Auditorium.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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All the World's a Stage? Not Here
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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.
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Date
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2005-11-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Music Hall
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Description
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View from stage into empty seats of Music Hall.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Music Hall
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Description
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View of Orchestra Promenade in Music Hall through decorative grillwork over a vent.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Orchestra during Performance
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View from stage of orchestra during performance at the Music Hall. Conductor unidentified.
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Photograph
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Title
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Music Hall
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Description
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View from stage of audience of unidentified children in Music Hall.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Music Hall
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Description
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View from empty seats toward stage in Music Hall.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Auditorium
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Description
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Unidentified men and women entering Music Hall, at night.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Municipal Auditorium
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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.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC166 Municipal Auditorium Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1934/1935
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Music Hall, Orchestra Promenade Lobby
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Description
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View of Orchestra Promenade Lobby at the Music Hall. Lounge area on lower level is visible, with mezzanine level featuring murals and sculptures above.
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Date
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1936~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
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Description
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View of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance. Believed to be taken in the Music Hall.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Music Hall
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Description
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Interior view of an unidentified audience in the Music Hall of Municipal Auditorium.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Music Hall
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City's Dream of a Temple of Music
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1923-08-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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2004 Conclave, The Heartland of America, Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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