Kiel Opera House Redevelopment On Track

• HI..my guess is Mary got Tall Jack to kill another Kiel deal. Dallas just opened a $356 million downtown performing arts center with Winspear Opera House and Wyly Theater and event space. Kansas City will be next with the Kauffman. St. Louis simply disappears..

• Nope...not on track..now we cant open Kiel before Kansas City opens the Kauffman.. and K C. drives another nail in the St. Louis travel ' coffin. Who controls Kiel? No Checketts. Mary Strauss Vince Schoemehl Jack Danforth As always..

• Hi..there is no re-design. It was/is- the beautiful main theater 3500 seats, and four stacked theater auditoriums which were used for performances, rehearsals, meetings-they were multi-us. The re-developers will flesh two into performing spaces. A third will be a first class restaurant. Down below- massive space for exhibits, food and beverage. It give us once again a center under one roof for music and other festivals during the wintertime. There are fesivals in the wintertime. The Checketts group are not going to 'touch' Broadway shows for 5 years- a concession to the Fox. It owns product, it creates product and producers and agents will climb all over themselves to 'play' Kiel again. "Top House inthe Country" is how George Walsh, a former manager of Kiel and box office manager at MUNY" puts it. Gatti-Casazza of the MET described the stage of the main theater 'unsurpassed in America.' This is really big.

• Zappa at Kiel Opera House was my first concert ever (my uncle was running sound). I was eight years old. I'm glad to hear this great hall might actually make a comeback.

• been hearing this crap for years. yawn.

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