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 Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium - ASU Campus - Tempe AZ
N 33° 24.959 W 111° 56.305
12S E 412749 N 3697797
"Gammage Auditorium is significant as the last non-residential design that Frank Lloyd Wright worked on before his death in 1959, but the building was not completed until 1964."
Waymark Code: WMK6VT
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2014
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"The auditorium is associated with both Wright and Grady Gammage, past president of the University. Gammage directed campus growth following World War II, which culminated in the re-designation of Arizona State Teachers College to Arizona State University, in 1958. This building is expressive of Wright’s theories of architecture and is a masterpiece of circular design." - above text (including the Quick Description) from ( visit link)
Theater Name: Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium
Country: USA
Address:
1200 S Forest Ave,
Tempe, AZ USA
85281
Web Site: [Web Link]
Venue: Academic Affiliation
Type of Productions:
"Since 1991, hundreds of well-known celebrities, musicians and performers have come through the theater as well including Mary J. Blige, Billy Crystal, Tony Bennett and Melissa Etheridge. Past artists include icons of dance, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, Bill T. Jones and the Bolshoi Ballet and pillars of classical music, Vladimir Horowitz, Phillip Glass, Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. Gammage also hosted the 2004 presidential debate, lectures, and symposiums featuring the world’s most prominent scientists, authors, dignitaries, politicians, and scholars, including Stephen Hawking, Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou and Margaret Thatcher. ASU Gammage is also one of the major presenters of Touring Broadway and has presented significant productions including THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, WICKED, THE LION KING, MISS SAIGON, LES MISERABLES, ANGELS IN AMERICA, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, JERSEY BOYS and many more."
- above text from http://www.asugammage.com/about/history
Restored Building: no
Date of Construction: September 18, 1964
Architect/Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Stage Type: Proscenium
Seating Capacity: 3000
Special Productions/Events/Festivals: Not listed
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