BCJ: Brownwood's Lyric Theatre restoration music to the ears - Brownwood, TX
Posted by: 
WalksfarTX
N 31° 43.224 W 098° 58.934
14R E 501682 N 3509444
The Lyric turned 100 years old this year. The theater celebrated its centennial after completing a $3.2 million restoration with a grand re-opening Dec. 11 and the locally-produced Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes” which ran until Dec. 21.
Waymark Code: WMRE6C
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2016
Views: 3
Eric Evans is the managing director for the Lyric Performing Arts Company. When last interviewed about the theater for a Big Country Journal column, Evans said they had enough money to restore everything except the seats.
“We raised those funds, and it has taken basically the last 18 months to do the work and construction inside,” he said last week.
Renovation on the exterior of the building had already been completed in 2011. When it came time to focus their attention on the inside of the building, it was decided to bring the building’s look back to the original design from when it first opened.
“The building was built in 1914 and was remodeled in 1930-ish. The lights that we inherited were the 1930s Art Deco period,” Evans said. “We didn’t want to go with that on the interior, we wanted to go with a Prairie Style of 1914.”
The architectural firm, Greg Free and Associates, luckily found something that would work. They located fixtures from a 1914 Ohio theater in the process of being torn down. If they weren’t the originals, at least they were from the same era and fit in with the style.
Type of publication: Newspaper
When was the article reported?: 01/11/2015
Publication: Abilene Reporter-News
Article Url: [Web Link]
Is Registration Required?: no
How widespread was the article reported?: regional
News Category: Entertainment
|
Visit Instructions:
Give the date of your visit at the news location along with a description of what you learned or experienced.