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Title
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Music Hall Shake-Up In Works
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Description
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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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All the World's a Stage? Not Here
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Description
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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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Title
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Orchestra during Performance
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Description
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View from stage of orchestra during performance at the Music Hall. Conductor unidentified.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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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 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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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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Title
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Arts Groups Lack Stage Directions for Future
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Description
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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".
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Date
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2004-09-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Robert Heinlein
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Description
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The 34th World Science Fiction Convention was held in Kansas City, September 2-6, 1976 at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel/Phillips House. The program book for the event includes a tribute to Robert Heinlein written by Isaac Asimov. Also includes a bibliography of Heinlein's works.
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Date
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1905-05-29
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Theater League Makes Return Engagement to KC
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Description
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Theater League "is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, community-based performing arts organization dedicated to the development of professional theater." Founded in 1976 by Mark Edelman, the group brought Broadway shows to the Kansas City Music Hall until 2007, when it was outbid on productions by Broadway Across America. With the opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Theater League has been able to return to presenting shows to Kansas City audiences.
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Date
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2012-01-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City Report: A Celebration of Henry Purcell
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Description
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Photo and article about the operatic performances produced by the Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri, and the work of Henry Purcell (an English composer) at the Music Hall in 1966 (with Dame Margot Fonteyn among the performers) after debuting George Handel's "Giulio Cesare" the previous year.
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Date
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1966-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Natural-Born Theater Man
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Description
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The Theater League, directed by founder and president Mark Edelman, brought musicals and plays to Kansas City from 1977 until 2007. From 1977 to 198,1 performances took place at the Lyric Theater, then the Midland Theater, and finally the Music Hall. In 2007 the City Council chose Live Nation over the League as exclusive presenter at the Hall. Article also contains biographical information about Edelman.
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Date
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2007-08-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
