‘Morris Reminiscences’ sought as theater turns 100
SOUTH BEND — The Morris Performing Arts Middle turns 100 this 12 months, and The Tribune desires to listen to from you about your favourite reminiscence on the Morris.
Inform us what your favourite reminiscence is and why in roughly 200 phrases or much less. Photographs welcome.
Electronic mail submissions to Arts & Leisure Editor Andrew S. Hughes at [email protected].
Constructed for $1 million by the Palace Theatre Company of Chicago and opened in 1922, the theater featured vaudeville acts, silent movies and such stars because the Ziegfield Follies that includes Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Houdini and Frank Sinatra throughout its first three many years.
When its board of administrators voted to demolish the constructing in 1959 after years of declining attendance, native philanthropist Ella Morris purchased the Palace for an undisclosed sum and offered the constructing to the town for $1, which led the town to rename it the Morris Civic Auditorium.
In Could 1998, it closed to endure a $17 million renovation and reopened March 3, 2000, beneath its new identify and with a brand new seating capability of two,564 folks.
The northern anchor to downtown and residential to the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and Broadway in South Bend, the Morris constantly charges within the High 100 for ticket gross sales in its seating capability class as ranked by the trade publication Pollstar.
The deadline to submit is Sept. 6.
For extra details about the Morris, go to morriscenter.org.
