The project is set to be presented Thursday to the Downtown Design Review Committee, which is overseen by the city's planning department and is tasked with deciding whether new construction and facade renovations are appropriate for downtown. The historic house, along with the Civic Center's main lobby, is due to be renovated in the coming year with $9.4 million in bond funding approved by Oklahoma City voters in 2017. Originally envisioned as part of the original 1993 Metropolitan Area Projects but ultimately left out, the Freede Little Theatre's time has finally come. There's a lot of very temporary solutions we've used in there that have been temporary for 20 years." It's a real cross between the Art Deco of the '20s with repeated lines and the rounded lines of the '30s and Art Moderne with the kind of sea scallops," Jordan said. At about 285 seats, it is the Civic Center's mid-sized house, between the almost 2,500-seat main stage, the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Center Theatre, and the 90-seat black box basement house, CitySpace Theatre. Over the past 20 years, no one has produced more shows in the Civic Center Music Hall's historic Freede Little Theatre than Jordan and his CityRep team. So, everybody talk amongst yourselves go and get another drink.'" "I had to go out and make a speech to the audience and explain to them what happened: 'The ceiling actually fell in on us and we're fixing the light board. and do the stage play like that," recalled Jordan, the founding artistic director of the professional theater known as CityRep. We started the performance 45 minutes late, and we weren't sure when we started it if the light board was going to have the cues in it or if we'd have to actually just bring all the lights up. But we had to uncover everything and get the water off of everything and dry off the board. Fortunately - because I worry - we always covered everything every night in plastic. "We had heavy rainstorms and we came in for the Sunday matinee, and a whole hunk of the ceiling had fallen on the light board in the balcony. A version of this story appears in Thursday's The Oklahoman and was co-written with Steve Lackmeyer.Ĭivic Center's historic Freede Little Theatre to get full remodelĭonald Jordan was directing Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre's 2007 production of "Moonlight and Magnolias" when the ceiling caved in - literally.
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