Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Orlando Fl
Coordinates: 28°32′17″Due north 81°22′41″West / 28.538032°N 81.378192°W / 28.538032; -81.378192
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 Exterior of venue (c.2014) | |
| Address | 445 S Magnolia Ave Orlando, FL 32801 |
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| Location | Downtown Orlando |
| Possessor | Urban center of Orlando |
| Chapters | 2,731 (Walt Disney Theater) 1,700 (Steinmetz Hall) 400 (DeVos Family unit Room) 294 (Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater) |
| Construction | |
| Broke footing | June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23) |
| Opened | November six, 2014 (2014-11-06) |
| Expanded | January 14, 2022 |
| Construction cost | $613 million |
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| Projection manager | AMS Planning & Enquiry Corp |
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| Services engineer | TLC Engineering Solutions. |
| General contractor | Balfour Beatty Construction |
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| Tenants | |
| Orlando Ballet (2014-present) | |
| Website | |
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Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (usually known as Dr. Phillips Center) is a performing arts center in Downtown Orlando, Florida, United States. It joined the Bob Carr Theater, which originally opened as the Orlando Municipal Auditorium in 1927,[one] to become Orlando'south principal performance venue. The center's grand opening was held on November six, 2014.[2]
Barton Myers is the design builder, with Artec Acoustic Consultants and Theatre Project Consultants designing the theaters. HKS Architects Inc, executive architect, with Baker Barrios Architects, Inc.
About [edit]
Venue during construction (March 2014)
The venue was approved along with a new Amway Center (which replaced the Amway Loonshit) and improvements to the Camping World Stadium after a series of hearings and votes, culminating in terminal votes in the Orange County Board of County Commissioners on July 26, 2007, and the Orlando Metropolis Quango on August half dozen, 2007.
The blueprint for the new venue was revealed on August 21, 2008. The venue features a 2,700-seat amplified hall, Walt Disney Theater, for Broadway musicals and multi-genre concerts likewise as a 300-seat venue, Alexis & Pugh Theater, for smaller shows and events.[3] The third theater, Steinmetz Hall, a 1,700-seat multiform theater achieves an N1 audio rating–the highest possible acoustical rating. The acoustically remarkable Steinmetz Hall can transform into iii different theater styles (symphony concert hall, proscenium hall, and feast hall) to accommodate multiple events and performances. Construction for Steinmetz Hall began on March 6, 2017 and officially opened on January 14, 2022. The final operation space to complete the arts center is Judson'south, a dynamic music room with cabaret-fashion seating to host intimate events and live entertainment. Judson'southward volition open summertime of 2022.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Dr. Phillips Center came up with a concept for an outdoor, socially distanced venue to go along offering performances in a time when then much of the world had shut downwards. In May of 2020, the idea for creating the Frontyard Festival™, presented by AdventHealth began and officially launched on December 5, 2020 with its first testify. Located on the forepart lawn of the Dr. Phillips Center, the Seneff Arts Plaza, the Frontyard Festival™ offered socially distant boxes that could seat up to six people. Food and drinks were delivered from on-site restaurants while performances and events were put on a stage at the front of the venue. The series was meant to run until June 2020, just was extended another half-dozen months and had its terminal event on December 13, 2021. The Frontyard Festival™ won the Silver Stevie® Award for "Most Valuable Non-Profit Response to COVID-19" from The American Business Awards and the Gold Brick Award for "Innovation" from Downtown Orlando Partnership.
The venue costs US$613 million, with the completion of Steinmetz Hall. Two-thirds of the funding comes from public funds, largely from the Orange County tourist development tax. The other one-third comes from private donations, including a large grant from the Dr. P. Phillips Foundation, the philanthropic arrangement funded through the estate of Philip Phillips.
A slow-down in the tourist development tax and other economic atmospheric condition forced the plans to get phased into ii stages of construction. Walt Disney Theater and Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater were part of Stage I. Phase II included Steinmetz Hall and Judson'southward. Groundbreaking took place in June 2011.
The eye occupies 2 urban center blocks. Some of the existing structures demolished to clear room for the center include Orlando Fire Department Station #1 (which moved to Key Blvd.); an annex edifice of Kickoff United Methodist Church of Orlando; and the round American Federal Edifice, synthetic in the 1960s. The center is bordered by Orange Ave. to the west, South St. to the northward, Rosalind Ave. to the east, and Anderson St. to the south. Magnolia Ave. bisects the belongings.[4]
The commencement Broadway production to play the Walt Disney Theater was Cameron Mackintosh's new, non-replica production of The Phantom of the Opera.
References [edit]
- ^ "Classic Carr". Orlando: The City's Magazine. Orlando, Florida: Morris Media. May 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
- ^ Brinkmann, Paul (November 6, 2014). "Darden, Magic execs plug Dr. Phillips Center opening". Orlando Lookout. Tribune Publishing.
- ^ Maupin, Elizabeth (August 21, 2008). "First look at Orlando'due south new performing-arts center". Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Publishing. Archived from the original on August 25, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2008.
- ^ Schlueb, Mark (June 9, 2006). "Buildings may fall for arts". Orlando Spotter . Retrieved April 5, 2012.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Phillips_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts