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Monday, November 24, 2008 |
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| Event Title: |
Tour: Midland Theater |
| Where: |
Midland Theater
- Kansas City, MO |
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| Venue |
Midland Theater |
| Homepage: |
http://www.midlandtheatre.org/
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| Street: |
1228 Main |
| ZIP: |
64105 |
| City: |
Kansas City, MO |
| Country: |
US |
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The Midland Theatre is a 3,573-seat theater located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was built by Marcus Loew, completed in 1927, at a cost of $4 million and is the largest historic theater within 250 miles of the city. The Midland was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb of New York and the Boller Brothers of Kansas City, and Boaz-Kiel Construction of St. Louis erected the structure. The theatre, built in French and Italian Baroque, was representative of Lamb's work in the 1920s. The exterior of the theatre was constructed in a Renaissance Revival style in cream glazed terra cotta brick, adorned with engaged pilasters, winged figures, leaves, flowers, swags, volutes, urns, and arches. A four-story arched window rose above a copper and gold marquee that contained 3,600 light bulbs. The Midland was the first theater in the country to have air conditioning, which the theater still does to this day. It was also the first theatre in the country to have a cantilevered loge, or mezzanine of seats supported without any pillars to obstruct the view from lower seats. The theater is also well known for its over 500,000 feet of gold leaf, five giant Czechoslovakian hand-cut crystal chandeliers, irreplaceable art objects and precious antiques, and spectacular wood and plaster work. The nearly 4,000 seats made the Midland the third largest theatre in the nation at the time it opened. It was surpassed only by the Roxy Theatre and Capitol Theatre, both in New York. |
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