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40th ANNUAL July 17-20, 2016 National Conference LHAT 40th Anniversary , IL ~ JULY17-20, 2016 CONFERENCE & TOUR Vol. 39 No. 2 Vol. 39 Summer 2016 Summer inLEAGUE THE LEAGUE OF HISTORIC AMERICAN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ©2016 LEAGUE OF HISTORIC AMERICAN THEATRES. 9 Newport Drive, Ste. 200 Forest Hill, MD 21050 (T) 443.640.1058 (F) 443.640.1031 WWW.LHAT.ORG Greetings from Board Chair, Jeffery Gabel

2016 Board of Directors On behalf of your board of directors, welcome to Chicago and the L Dana Amendola eague of Historic American Theatres’ 40th Annual Conference Disney Theatrical Group and Theatre Tour. Our beautiful conference hotel is located in John Bell the heart of Chicago’s historic theatre district which has seen FROM it all from the rowdy heydays of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show to Randy Cohen burlesque and speakeasies to the world-renowned Lyric , Americans for the Arts Steppenwolf Theatre and Second City. John Darby , Inc. I want to extend an especially warm welcome to those of you Michael DiBlasi, ASTC who are attending your first LHAT conference. You will observe old PaPantntaggeses Theh attrer , LOL S ANANGGELEL S Schuler Shook Theatre Planners friends embracing as if this were some sort of family reunion. That’s COAST Molly Fortune because, for many, LHAT is a family whose members can’t wait Newberry Opera House to catch up since last time. It is a family that is always welcoming Jeffrey W. Gabel new faces with fresh ideas and even more colorful backstage Majestic Theater stories. Lasting friendships and valuable connections are made Becky Hancock here as we celebrate each others’ triumphs and comfort one Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation another’s woes. Micah Hollingworth I am particularly grateful for the gracious hospitality of our Margaret Lake conference host, Dulcie Gilmore – LHAT board member emeritus Theatre Doctors Inc. and recipient of our “Outstanding Individual Contribution Award", Mark Litvin as well as former manager of Chicago’s celebrated Arie Crown City Center Theater and Oriental Theatre. And a special thank you to fellow Peter Means ASU Gammage board member, Bill Register at Nederlander, for all his efforts. Karen Nelson While I want you to enjoy this “toddling town,” the heart and soul American Swedish Institute of our annual conference are the educational sessions. Whatever NeNeded rlrlanandeder ThT eaeatrtre,e NENEW YOY RKRK Björn Olsson role you play at your theatre, you will find this year’s sessions offer Tarrytown Music Hall a dynamic range of topics presented by the finest experts in our Steve Peters VenuWorks industry who will help you solve some of the problems you may be Brian Phoebus facing. Maury, Donnelly & Parr, Inc. LHAT’s conference and its service to the field of historic theatres Bill Register are made possible through the extraordinary generosity of our sponsors. Their financial support gives LHAT the resources it needs Joseph Rosenberg, Ph.D. V.I.P. Tours of New York to provide you with an outstanding experience this week and to Michael Schnoering, FAIA provide support and services to you throughout the year. If you Mills+Schnoering, LLC see someone wearing a sponsor ribbon, please thank them and Paul Siemborski, AIA keep them in mind as a resource should you need their services. Westlake Reed Leskosky Finally, please take a moment to thank our talented and dedicat- Stephanie Silverman ed LHAT staff - starring Ken Stein as President & CEO, with support- Belcourt Theatre Lynne King Smith ing cast members Colleen Poehlman, Tisha Shelden and Theresa BaBankn of AmAmererici a ThTheaeatrree,, CHCHICCAGAGO TicketForce Grier. They have worked tirelessly to make sure you have an expe- Alec Stoll rience this week that is both fun and transformative. Stages Consultants As belted about Chicago, “On State Street that Tom Tomlinson great street I just want to say, they do things that they never do on HOHONNORING CEELLEBREBRATINNGG CULTIVATINING Charleston Gaillard Center (former) Kelly Updike .” Have a great conference! the Past the Present the Future Embassy Theatre Foundation, Inc.

BOARD EMERITUS Dulcie Gilmore (retired) Alice & Halsey North Jeffery W. Gabel The North Group, Inc. Chairman, League of Historic American Theatres Darlene Smolik Founding Executive Director, Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater NEDERLANDER ORGANIZATION, INC. Plymouth Soundings, LLC Vice Chairman, Council on the Arts

40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 1 The League of Historic American Theatres together with PROTECT YOUR THEATRE'S The Nederlander Organization, The Shubert Organization Disney Theatrical Group and Maury, Donnelly & Parr, Inc. present The LHAT 40th Annual Conference and Theatre Tour Chicago, IL JULY 17-20, 2016 Chicago Local Host and Grandeur Planning Committee

LHAT Board Emeritus Nederlander Producing Co. of Dulcie Gilmore America, Inc. Former Manager, Arie Crown Theater Bill Register Vice President, Operations

LHAT Staff

Ken Stein Colleen Poehlman Theresa Grier President & CEO Director of Membership Services Interactive Marketing Manager

Tisha Shelden To learn more about the Historic Theatre Insurance Program, contact Kevin Sullivan: Membership Services Coordinator 410.547.3176 or [email protected]

Photo Courtesy: Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ.

CONTENTS: 2016 Conference Program...... 4 Sunday 7/17...... 4 Monday 7/18...... 5 Tuesday 7/19...... 8 Wednesday 7/20...... 12 Acoustics Preservation at Cary Memorial Hall...... 15 Back to the Future: The Lebowsky Center...... 17 Awards Program...... 20 Theatre Tours (Ramble)...... 22 Theatre Tours (Conference)...... 26 LHAT Member Survey Results...... 30 Sponsors (Service Providers) Information...... 31 Speaker Bios...... 40

40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 3 how you can use LHAT’s resources to achieve your 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour goals. In this introductory session for new members Monday, July 18, 2016 or new staff, we will cover historic theatre marketing, All events at Renaissance Chicago Hotel CHICAGO, IL - July 17-20, 2016 fundraising and operation basics. This will also be a unless otherwise noted great opportunity to network with members of LHAT’s CHECK THE NEW LHAT MOBILE APP FOR UPDATES national board of directors and make new friends to All sessions and events are at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel unless otherwise noted. hang out with during the conference. 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM All events and locations, times, tours and speakers subject to change so check your LHAT APP or Presenter: Ken Stein, President & CEO, League of Registration Open the registration area at the hotel. Historic American Theatres, Austin, TX (Looking Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor)

Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:45 - 6:00 PM 7:30 - 8:30 AM irst imer s elcome ounge REGISTRATION OPEN 11:00AM - 6:00PM in the Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor F T ' W L Eye Opener Breakfast: Peer Discussions & (Located in Discover, 2nd Floor) Networking If this is your first LHAT National Conference, please (Looking Glass Ballroom, 3rd Floor) LHAT Pre-Conference Ramble Early Bird Intensives make time on Sunday to stop by the First Timers Seek advice from your LHAT colleagues and Welcome Lounge. Enjoy a cold beverage and meet share experiences in historic theatre operations, Bus leaves at 8:30 am (7:30AM breakfast) 2:00 - 5:00 PM some fellow attendees, including your "first friend" programming, management and facilities through a (if possible). Ask questions and get pointers from Pre-Conference Historic Theatre Ramble Pre-registration is required to ensure a spot; limit highly interactive information exchange. A favorite seasoned LHAT conference attendees. of LHAT conferences, this breakfast session introduces Sponsored by: 50 people each session. Check the registration you to valuable resources within the League’s network. area to see if a spot is still available. 6:45 - 7:45 PM Sponsored by: Historic Theatre Tour Pre-Conference Ramble requires an Early Bird Option #1: Historic Theatre additional registration fee. Renovation 101: A Framework for We will walk to the for an

Fee includes continental breakfast. Planning Successful Projects educational tour. Depart from the hotel lobby at 6:35 Registration and breakfast begin at 7:30 AM (Located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) PM. 8:45 - 11:15 AM in the 2nd Floor Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Thinking about acquiring, restoring, and revitalizing a Historic Theatre Tours Area. The group will depart the hotel promptly historic theatre? Already have one and need some We will walk to the Ford Center for the Performing at 8:30 AM and travel by motorcoach. Depart help? This early-bird, in-depth session – featuring a Conference Kick-Off Arts/Oriental Theatre and PrivateBank Theatre for in front of Hotel. team of leading experts in theatre planning, design, educational tours. Group will split into two and operation and tax credit financing – presents an 6:45 -10:00 PM This League tradition will be a fun-filled day alternate touring each venue. Meet in the Grand overview of a historic theatre renovation project. Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor and depart at 8:30 AM. touring four historic theatres in the Chicago Designed for historic theatre owners, community Opening Night Festivities area as well as lunch along the way. Theatres leaders, board members, senior staff and others who scheduled for tours include: Athenaeum are considering, beginning or participating in the 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Theatre, Mercury Theater, Theatre, renovation of a historic theatre, this in-depth session Theatre Tour: Chicago Theatre unch n our wn and York Theatre. Lunch @ Angelo’s Ristorante will help you develop a clear understanding of your Walk from Hotel at 6:35pm L O Y O role in the process. Groups who want to renovate a historic theatre are encouraged to attend as a team. 2016 EDUCATION PROGRAMS Welcome Cocktail Reception Presenters: Alec Stoll, Principal, Stages Consultants, Looking Glass Ballroom, 3rd Floor Hotel Official Highland Park, NJ (moderator); Patrick Hyland, AIA Conference LEED AP, Associate Principal, Westlake Reed Leskosky, Sponsored by: Education , OH; Mark Litvin, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Center, New York, Sponsor NY; Susan Palmer, President, The Palmer Westport Group, Santa Fe, NM; and Michael Schnoering, FAIA, 12:45 - 2:00 PM Partner, Mills + Schnoering Architects, LLC, Princeton, Welcome Dinner & 2016 Awards Ceremony NJ Tools & Techniques Segment 1A (Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor Hotel) (Please note: three of the five sessions will be repeated Sponsored by: after a 30 min. break. Sessions marked with this symbol Early Bird Option #2: An Introduction ☼ will only be offered once) to LHAT Sponsored by: (2:00 - 3:30 PM, Located in Discover, 2nd Floor) Learn how powerful your historic theatre can be and INLEAGUE | PAGE 4 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 5 Monday, JULY 18 Continued The Age of Disruption: A Candid Look 2:00 - 2:30 PM service principles and technology to engage donors at the Impact of Change Facing the and ticket buyers without saying a word. Sales and Networking Refreshment Break  Ever-evolving Historic Theatre donation technologies have changed as have Master Plan Yoga: Remaining Flexible (located in Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor) patron and staff expectations. Still, remnants of prior  (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) Community methodologies remain. Board members and theatre (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) Thinking of starting a Facility Master Plan process administrators may ask, “When a customer calls to 2:30 - 3:45 PM to plan for restoration, repairs, adaptive use, or We cannot escape the reality of change in the historic buy a ticket, can we sell them the next show?” A valid additions? Then limber up! While there are tried and theatre marketplace. Whether resurrecting a lost gem Tools & Techniques Segment 1B question, but a lower priority when the overwhelming true methods and highly qualified designers that back into the community, or disrupting operations by (Five concurrent sessions, three of five repeated from majority of single ticket sales are made online (and may help you realize your dream of developing expanding facilities or upgrading technologies, the earlier session) increasingly on mobile devices) and a new donor’s first idea of change has a direct impact on the ability to interaction with your theatre is likely its digital presence a comprehensive planning document to guide Sponsored by: work on your building, you will be greatly served by succeed in an ever-changing economy. This session on its website and social channels. How is donor and entering the process with an open and flexible mind will explore the strategies and tactics associated ticket buyer behavior being reported on now that the to successfully meet the challenges of the planning with change management; reveal how success is patron exhibits most of his or her behavior exclusively and decision-making process. This session will dive into driven through disruption and our ability to deliver in a digital environment? This presentation will briefly the details of the development of a Facility Master vision and innovation for the good of the mission; and Master Plan Yoga: Remaining Flexible review what the “old” box office looked like in terms Plan and will look at specific examples; discuss tasks, expose that winning is impossible without strategically (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) of physical space but also average fees, ticket prices, responsibilities, and deliverables to be assigned and planning and entangling your community for the sales channels, etc. Then it will transition into the expected during the planning process; consider success of your operation. current metrics for the industry and how the same coordination and tie-in to a capital campaign; and Best Practices to Get You from Good to sound principles and strategies from the “old” box Presenters: Robert Friend, VP Business Development review the post-planning process, when a need for Great (or Greater)! office can be readily updated and more accurately & Strategy, Patron Technology, New York, NY flexibility might be most critical. (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) measured using web and CRM-based analytics. The (moderator), David Marty, President, Reif Center for presenters will map these engagement points and Presenters: Michael Schnoering, FAIA, Partner, Mills + the Arts, Grand Rapids, MN; Tom Tomlinson, Arts Facility offer takeaways with immediate positive impact on Schnoering Architects, LLC, Princeton, NJ, and Dave and Management Consultant, Charleston, SC; and The Age of Disruption: A Candid Look at the box office workflow, patron satisfaction and sales. Hartkern, Vice President of Operations, State Theatre, Gene Carr, Founder & CEO, Patron Technology, New Impact of Change Facing the Ever-evolving New Brunswick, NJ York, NY Presenters: Andy Slater, Senior VP Sales, NY, and Historic Theatre Community Joseph Yoshitomi, VP Marketing Strategy, CA, for (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) TheaterMania Best Practices to Get You from Good to ☼ The Afterglow Effect: Create Great (or Greater)! Customer Relationships That Last ☼ Turn Ticket Buyers Into Major Givers  (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor)  (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor)  (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) This session will help theatre managers understand and Success! You have presented a great show. Many theaters struggle to identify and build apply classic business lessons to the management of Concessions lines were moving, the parking lot cleared relationships with their most loyal audience members historic theatres and their staff. The presentation will without a hitch and everyone left with a smile. So, now who are also their best potential major supporters. include information gleaned from Jim Collins’ best- what? Are you going to let that goodwill go to waste? In this seminar, we'll highlight the five factors that selling business book, Good to Great, including “Level We certainly hope not! Learn the steps to keep fans identify prospects with both the inclination and the 5 Leadership,” “Getting the Right People on the Bus,” engaged after an event and make sure they come capacity to become major supporters, based on a “Confronting the Brutal Facts,” and more. Discussions back for more. study of $5 billion in giving from 2 million donors to 400 of the DISC system’s focus on “creating a culture Presenters: Aaron Bare, Director of Marketing, ETIX, nonprofits. The second part of this presentation will be of Workforce Heroes” will help you “match the right Morrisville, NC a representative from a LHAT theatre member offering people to the right roles” in order to create and sustain a case study of how that data can be used in the real a successful organization. How do you become that world to boost fundraising. Finally, we'll highlight donor leader who has a motivated and engaged staff, who ☼ Proper Technical Presentation for trends from the latest Giving USA study, particularly has “the right people on the bus,” and who is creating giving trends in the arts. everyday workforce heroes? Learn how to change the  Showing Film culture of your organization (but you’ll still have to do (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) Presenters: Jay Frost, Senior Partner, Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners, Chicago, IL the work!). With spaces built more often for acoustically-live performances or silent movies, adapting your historic Presenters: Craig Sumberg, Executive Director, Fox space for the best technical presentation of film can Tucson Theatre Foundation, Tucson, AZ, and Chris Eure, be tricky. Hear from two historic movie palaces on Executive Director, Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, their approaches to technical presentation in their VA ☼ The Bach Office: Why a Quiet Box auditoriums. Both theaters utilize their venues for live Office is a Good Thing 2016 EDUCATION PROGRAMS events and films, making the transition between the  (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) two experiences crucially important. Official A decade ago, theater box offices were tangled Conference Presenters: Barak Epstein, President, Texas Theatre, in phone cords, weighed down by bulky computer Education Dallas, TX and Russ Collins, Executive Director, monitors and crowded with staff -- and that was Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Sponsor a good thing! The modern box office anticipates patron needs using good data, strong customer INLEAGUE | PAGE 6 League of Historic American Theatres programming, management and facilities through a 4:00 PM Connecting Through Technology: highly interactive information exchange. A favorite Building (a) Millennial (#FOMO) 2016 LHAT Annual Membership Meeting of LHAT conferences, this breakfast session introduces Audience (located in Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor) you to valuable resources within the League’s network. (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Patron engagement with Millennials means understanding their #FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). The first generation who grew up with technology is now entering middle age with arts and entertainment dollars to spend. Eighty million strong, they are Keynote Address 9:00 - 10:15 AM educated, savvy and connected. How do arts organizations capitalize on Millennials' need to be David J. Brown Tools & Techniques Segment 2A in the know, and connect with them in all the right (Please note: four of the five sessions will be repeated Executive Vice channels? What are the new norms you can embrace after a 30 min. break. Sessions marked with this symbol President and Chief now? ☼ will only be offered once) Preservation Officer, Presenter: Lynne King Smith, CEO, and Braelyn Smith, National Trust for Historic Sponsored by: Graphic Designer, TicketForce, Mesa, AZ Preservation

David J. Brown leads the National Trust's How to Make a Face to Face Ask for comprehensive preservation efforts, with four Big Money - and Live to Talk About It Theatre Security: Are you a Hard or Soft  decades of experience in saving historic places and (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) building thriving, livable communities. He oversees Target? Question: What's the number one thing we most the Trust's National Treasure campaigns which help (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) fear in this country? Answer: Speaking in public. protect some of the country's most significant and In this session learn best practices to keep your Question: What's the number two thing we most fear threatened historic places. David also guides the staff and patrons safe by making your theatre a in the country? Answer: Sitting down with someone Trust's advocacy work, oversees support for local hard target. In today’s high profile world of security and asking for a large gift. Number three is a plane preservation leadership, promotes preservation's role in concerns, a soft target is a place with no security crash . . . . Why are we so afraid? We are afraid because we've never done it before. We are afraid environmental sustainability through the Preservation measures in place, vs. a hard target, which is a because we think we'll be rejected and fail. So just as Green Lab, and is leading the exploration and location with enough security in place to possibly adaptation of new models of preservation at National comfortable, confident public speakers are students of deter interested perpetrators. that skill, so must be comfortable, confident solicitors. Trust historic sites. From 1999-2003, David successfully This session that will give you the skills and tools you led the organization's $135 million Campaign for Presenters: Bill Register, Vice President of Operations, The Nederlander Organization, New York, NY; need to become the most successful solicitor in your America's Historic Places. project. additional presenters TBA Presenters: Susan Palmer, President, The Palmer Westport Group, Santa Fe, NM, and Susan Weller, 6:00 PM Breaking Barriers: Diversity in the Arts President, Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Jacksonville, Evening On Your Own Space IL (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) (Baseball Game 6:05 or Architecture River Cruise 7:30) There is a lack of diversity across the arts and ☼ Historic Theatre Programming 101: theatre fields and many reasons for the shortage of representative diversity that can hinder audience From Renting to Risking (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) Tuesday, July 19, 2016 development and discourage minorities to consider  the field as a career path. The question: how do we When, why, how, and what is right for your Venue? All events at Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel accept the deficiency and approach solving the What is the recipe that will work for your venue, your unless otherwise noted problem? This session will take a look at the theatre town, your users, and your audience? There are industry and delve into the topic of diversity. Is there basically three things you can do with a theatre: rent it out, book/program it yourself, or co-promote. There enough diversity to serve communities and how can 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM is not a right or wrong way, and what you choose we make sure that minorities of all sorts feel welcomed to do depends on your tolerance for risk, and (as Registration Open into the field, especially in leadership roles as well with all things) the market you are in. We will discuss as board members? The discussion will focus on the (Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor) working towards a “diversified portfolio” of in-house statistical backdrop for this topic, show information on presentations, co-promotions, and rentals. Relationship the current landscape in America, and identify areas building with your local and national promoters, 7:30 - 8:30 AM to improve. renters and partners is key to any venue’s success. Eye Opener Breakfast: Peer Discussion & Presenters: Donald Mason, Executive Director, Lyric Presenters: Margaret Lake, Principal, Theater Doctors, Theatre, Lexington, KY; additional presenters TBA Inc., , CA; Numa Saisselin, President, Networking Theatre, Jacksonville, FL, and John Faust, (Looking Glass Ballroom, 3rd Floor) Former Theater Manager, Stanley Theater, Utica, NY Seek advice from your LHAT colleagues and 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 9 share experiences in historic theatre operations, TUESDAY, JULY 19 Continued How to Make a Face to Face Ask for Big 4:00 - 5:15 PM community of artists. The Englert chose to commission Money - and Live to Talk About It three projects: a comic book, a documentary photo (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) Tools & Techniques Segment 3 project and an that was released on CD 10:15 - 10:45 AM (Six concurrent sessions, all only offered once) and LP, both with additional tracks available for download. All serve both as ongoing fundraising items Networking Refreshment Break ☼ Credit Card Processing Explained... and marketing tools for the theatre, while helping to (located in Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor) Students on Our Team: Real Life Tales at Last! of Working with the Next Generation of explain who the theatre is to its patrons. Attendees will  (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) walk away inspired with tools for planning their own Sponsored by: Theatre Champions multi-faceted milestone celebrations. Credit card processing is confusing to almost (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) everyone, from the rates and fees to PCI compliance What does it look like to work with students in our Presenter: Katie Roche, Development Director, Englert to new technologies like EMV. This session will day-to-day operations? What are the joys and Theatre, Iowa City, IA finally explain, in plain English, how payments flow challenges of having student volunteers, employees, through the system, the system's various participants, and board members? As historic theaters do we have Spotlight Southwest Virginia: 10:45 - 12:00 PM how rates and fees are set and how they can be something special to offer young people? Are there Strengthening through reduced, what PCI means and why compliance is Tools & Techniques Segment 2B things we can learn about our future by working with  Performing Arts Networking so important, what EMV is and how it works, how to students? This session will explore these questions and (Five concurrent sessions, four of five repeated from (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) better secure a theatre's payments infrastructure others through a look at two theaters that work with first session) Led by the vision of Barter Theatre’s Artistic Director to prevent costly breaches, what encryption and students (the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison, WI Rick Rose, Spotlight Southwest Virginia was developed tokenization are, how to prevent chargebacks, and and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, IN). Sponsored by: to create a regional network of performing arts how to increase donations and boost concession sales Participants are invited to bring their questions and venues. The initiative is a creative industry cluster per capita through electronic payments. Questions stories about the students that you work with. development which is utilizing capacity building, from the audience are encouraged throughout Presenters: Heather Good, Assistant Director for shared best practices, technical support and a Theatre Security: Are you a hard or soft this interactive session and attendees leave with a Outreach and Development, Wisconsin Union Theater, regional touring network to strengthen theaters. This newfound understanding of electronic payments and target? Madison, WI, and Danielle McClelland, Executive panel discussion will provide a model for developing associated best practices. The presenter is a veteran (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) Director, Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington, IN collaborative relationships among performing arts of both stage and screen theatre operations and the venues, local government bodies, community payments industry. planners, and industry professionals. The discussion Breaking Barriers: Diversity in the Arts Space Presenter: Wynn J. Salisch, Chairman and CEO, We Need to Talk… About your Website (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) will include success stories, as well as trial and error Casablanca Ventures, New York, NY  scenarios, that can provide participants with tools for Your programming, your venue, and your marketing developing relationships in their home communities. Connecting Through Technology: Building (a) are all beautiful, so why does your website still look 12:00 - 12:45 PM Presenters: Amy Braswell, Project Manager, Spotlight Millennial (#FOMO) Audience like it was designed using Microsoft Paint? Your website is often the first touchpoint audiences have Southwest Virginia, Abingdon, VA, and Kristin Untiedt- (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) Lunch On Your Own with your organization and being aware of how their Barnett, Executive Director, The Lincoln Theatre, journey goes from home page to checkout is critically Marion, VA important to making sure they enjoy their experience. This session helps you to focus on the purpose of your website and achieve the seven steps to online Film Programming 101 1:00 - 3:30 PM nirvana.  (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) Meet the Service Providers Presenter: Libby Penn, Managing Director, Spektrix Interested in adding a film program to your calendar but don’t know a four-wall from drywall or a BOR EXPO & RECEPTION from VOD? In this session, you will learn the basics (located Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor) Harnessing the Power of your Milestone of booking films, establishing relationships with Year distributors, and developing your programming A Don’t Miss Event! (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) strategy. This session will be structured as a Q&A Celebrating a 50th, 100th or 125th year anniversary session, so bring your programming questions! Make new contacts and learn about products is an opportunity to engage with supporters, while Presenters: Brian Andreotti, Theatrical Booking for and services that historic theatres need most. honoring the current organization and its history. Music Box Films, Chicago, IL; Jeffrey Gabel, Founding Over drinks and desserts, mine the Expo for There are special opportunities to renew support and Executive Director, Majestic Theater, Gettysburg, resources to help you improve your historic bring new donors into the fold during these special PA and Barbara Twist, Managing Director, Art House anniversaries. This presentation is a case study showing Convergence, Ann Arbor, MI venue, operations and programming. Have how The Englert Theatre in Iowa City, Iowa met the exhibitors punch your Expo card and enter it in challenge of harnessing the potential of its centennial 2016 EDUCATION PROGRAMS a drawing for valuable prizes. year. For its 2012 Centennial Celebration, the Englert identified three goals: engaging the community using Official (Exhibitors may set up between 10:45 and 12:45 PM) the theatre’s history as both a local civic theatre and Conference as an American theatre; documenting this moment Education in history; and honoring its thriving present day Sponsor

INLEAGUE | PAGE 10 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 11 TUESDAY, JULY 19 Continued In the Mobile Moment: Why where the original ornament, murals and finishes were Entertainment Organizations Must lost in a devastating fire in 1964 and restored in 2015. Urban Revival – From Crumbling Master ‘Micro-Moments’ Presenters: Tom Einhouse, Vice President of Facilities Facades to Neighborhood  (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) and Capital, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland, OH, Jeff Renaissance: How the Revitalized Greene, President, EverGreene Architectural Arts, New  Google coined it, but theatre and live events Lincoln Theatre Rekindled Community York City, NY, and Christopher Loeser RA, Associate, professionals must master it. The “micro-moment” is Pride, Hope and Vision for the Future Westlake Reed Leskosky, Cleveland, OH (located in Discover, 2nd Floor) splitting the customer journey into numerous intent- driven actions. A quick search on the closest mobile Historic American Theatres - architectural treasures device is all it takes for audiences to learn, engage – restored, renovated, re-opened – can recapture ☼ How to Manage Your Theatre’s Risk and buy. What happens during these short, in-the- glory once enjoyed by their creators. This panel (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) moment bursts of time can shape the thoughts, discussion explores the resiliency these buildings Regardless of what stage your theatre is in, vacant feelings and/or next steps of your patrons. Mastering offer within the walls and beyond and how to bridge building or fully operational, we will discuss the various micro-moment marketing can mean a full-house the magical connections that anchor these iconic risks a theatre faces and the insurance needed to instead of empty seats, more opportunities to structures as beacons and steadfast landmarks for maintain proper coverage. connect and no lost sales. Learn how organizations their communities. Experts will discuss what makes are creating these real-time moments, engaging Presenter: Brian Phoebus, Senior Vice President, Maury these venues great settings for art, culture, education with consumers and earning relevance in a crowded Donnelly & Parr, , MD and community engagement. The panel will share online marketplace. strategies for planning, design and community outreach. Join the discussion to learn tactics including Presenters: Maureen Andersen, VP Arts & 10:00 - 10:30 AM what it takes to capture rental revenues from Entertainment, AudienceView, , ON; Nick community and corporate partners. Begley, Senior Marketing Manager, AudienceView, Networking Refreshment Break Toronto, ON; Maureen Patton, Executive Director, The (located Cloud Gate Foyer, 3rd Floor) Presenters: Todd W. Bemis, Jr., Vice President for Grand 1894 Opera House, Galveston, TX; and Gena Theatre Operations, Columbus Association of Buhler, Executive Director, Wheeler Opera House, Performing Arts (CAPA). Columbus, OH; Charissa W. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Durst, AIA, President and Principal Architect, Hardlines Aspen, CO Design Company. Columbus, OH; and David W. Kahn, Tools & Techniques Segment 4B LEED AP, President, Acoustic Distinctions, New York, NY All the Right Moves Management: (Five concurrent sessions, three of five repeated from first session) Techniques for Getting the Most from 8:45 - 10:00 AM 5:15 - 6:00 PM Patrons Tools & Techniques Segment 4A Upgrading to LEDs: Things to Think About So it Informal Networking (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) (Please note: three of the five sessions will be repeated after Doesn’t Go Horribly Wrong (located Grand Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Floor) a 30 min. break. Sessions marked with ☼ only offered once) When the house is looking light or you are promoting (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) Sponsored by: your upcoming event, are you targeting who should fill the house or resorting to a bit of “spray 6:00 PM Evening on Your Own and pray” marketing techniques? Segmenting your In the Mobile Moment: Why Entertainment audience and aligning those segments with moves (Architecture River Cruise 7:30) Organizations Must Master ‘Micro-Moments’ management practices takes the guesswork out of Upgrading to LEDs: Things to Think (located in Cloud Gate 2, 3rd Floor) About So it Doesn’t Go Horribly Wrong who to target and what to say. You will find more Wednesday, July 20, 2016  (located in Cloud Gate 1, 3rd Floor) efficient ways to move first-time attendees and frequent attendees to subscribers and donors. Learn All the Right Moves Management: All events at Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel With promises of long life and lower electric bills different ways to segment your audiences, metrics to LEDs are everywhere today. On-stage, lighting the Techniques for Getting the Most from Patrons unless otherwise noted measure, and how to get the most from your patron (located in Cloud Gate 3, 3rd Floor) theatre's house, lobbies, offices, the exterior, and base. even marquees. But what they don't tell you is that Presenter: Robert Caplis, Director of Sales, Choice 7:00 AM - 11:00 PM all of these new light sources aren't all created ☼ Case Study: Monthly Movies at the equally. We're going to break down the differences, CRM, Boulder, CO egistration pen Majestic Theatre (Dallas, TX) R O and prepare you with some basic knowledge of the (Looking Glass Foyer, 3rd Floor) (located in Cloud Gate 4, 3rd Floor) differences in controlling and where different types Phoenix Rising: Recreating the Ohio The Majestic Theatre is a historic year-round are applicable so you don't invest a lot of funds into Theatre Lobby 7:30 - 8:30 AM something that won't work the way you'd envisioned. performing arts and in downtown Dallas, (located in Discover, 2nd Floor) From the three perspectives of a consultant, a TX. Managed by the City of Dallas, Office of Cultural ye pener reakfast eer iscussion E O B : P D & manufacturer, and a systems integrator you'll see A successful restoration begins long before the Affairs. The historic Texas Theatre in Dallas operates as Networking where LED lighting has been and where it's going. The decorative ornament is cast and installed. It begins a movie and music venue all year round. The Majestic (Looking Glass Ballroom, 3rd Floor) good, the bad, and the ugly. with a visionary master plan, followed by a thoughtful stopped showing movies on a regular basis in the and creative planning & design and finally brought 70's. Now, the Majestic Theatre wants to expand their Presenters: Tobin Neis, Director of Marketing, Barbizon Sponsored by: to realization by a team of dedicated conservators film offerings to a monthly film series and has started Lighting Company, New York, NY, Josh Allen, Theatre and craftsmen. This is a case study of the restoration working with the Texas Theatre on programming and Consultants Collaborative, Raleigh, NC, and Chris of Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Ohio Theatre lobby, logistics. The partnership between the Majestic Patton, GDS Lighting INLEAGUE | PAGE 12 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 Continued landscapes, but many more are misunderstood or underappreciated. This panel explores the past, ACOUSTICS PRESERVATION AT CARY MEMORIAL HALL

present, and future of these newly historic buildings. by Ben Markham – Director of Architectural Acoustics at Acentech, Cambridge, MA Theatre and the Texas Theatre has evolved into a programming collaboration, benefiting both the Presenters: Meredith Arms Bzdak, PhD, Partner, Mills + In the restoration of a well-liked performance in the side and rear balconies, aimed at moviegoing community as well as offering programs Schnoering Architects, LLC. Princeton, NJ, and Alec space, sometimes it is necessary to do some the backs of heads and into the main Stoll, Principal, Stages Consultants, Highland Park, NJ on otherwise "dark nights" for the Majestic. Get an “acoustic forensics” in order to maintain the volume of the room beyond. In addition, in-depth look at how this partnership developed and is continually evolving as the two organizations work sound quality of an historic auditorium. the speakers at the front of the room together. 12:00 - 1:00 PM The Cary Memorial Building, named for Isaac had a wide directivity pattern, scattering Presenters: Barak Epstein, Texas Theatre, Dallas, TX and Historic Theatre Tour Harris Cary, was built in 1928 in Lexington, sound not just toward the audience but Michael Schwedler, Majestic Theatre, Dallas, TX We will walk to the Civic Opera House for an MA, with a donation from his two daughters. in many directions where the reverberant educational tour. We will meet in the Looking Glass The Colonial styled building, with its grand hall would be energized. The system led ☼ My Past is Catching Up with Me: Foyer and depart at 11:55 PM. Battin Hall auditorium, has provided the to several problems, including a lack of Understanding the Newly Historic, community with a year-round site for musical directional realism in the balconies and a Modern Theater programming and popular events for “soupy” sound generally. (located in Cloud Gate 5, 3rd Floor) eighty years and is home to the Lexington 3. Battin Hall was reverberant. Not The twentieth century brought new forms of drama 1:15 - 3:00 PM Symphony. It also hosts Lexington Town cathedral-like by any means, but and successive waves of technological advancement th Meeting – that aged form of democracy- reverberant in the way that most good LHAT 40 Anniversary Celebration Party to the world of theater. Architecturally, by mid- in-action found halls are – with century, it also brought experimentation. The theaters Celebrate your national in New England a warm, enveloping and performing arts spaces designed and built in association as it celebrates 40 the 1950s, 60s, and 70s represent a range of Modern years of being a champion for states. Long well- sonority well-suited styles. By definition, many of these theaters are the preservation, restoration and regarded for to symphony now historic. Some have been recognized for their operation of historic theatres. The Symphony, the performance, but outstanding historical or architectural significance and Nederlander Organization and 820-seat Battin rendering speech a handful are world renowned as important cultural Broadway in Chicago will host a Hall was ill-suited and party for LHAT in the lobby of the historic Palace Theatre. Enjoy local acoustically for indistinct or “muddy.” favorites like deep dish pizza and Eli's cheesecake Town Meeting, This was perhaps bites and salute LHAT with a champagne toast! speeches, the central dilemma Takes place at the . comedy acts, of the renovation pop music, and plan: maintain the Sponsored by: other amplified reverberance so prized and speech- for symphony, while oriented events. Photo: © Emily O'Brien substantially improving There were three clarity and intelligibility main reasons why this was the case: for most everything else that takes place Ohio Theatre Lobby / Cleveland 1. The pre-renovation heating and cooling in Battin Hall. system was noisy. For Symphony events, To address the HVAC noise, a new, sound- users would “pre-cool” the room and then isolated mechanical room was built, large 3:00 PM shut the system off during performances, ducts were installed to carry air slowly, and meaning that patrons suffered thermally a new chiller was located at the rear of the Conference Concludes but not acoustically. For events like Town building, replacing the earlier, noisier chiller Meeting, speeches, etc., users tended that had been located just outside the Join us July 2017 in Los Angeles to place a higher priority on thermal historic Battin Hall windows. comfort than acoustics. Wittingly or In addition, a new sound system was unwittingly, this meant that presenters had Lyric Theatre / Birmingham designed as part of the recent renovation, SPECIAL THANKS TO: to compete with the noise of the HVAC utilizing better located and more directionally Preconstruction Design Services system to be heard, and intelligibility Conservation & Restoration Official focused loudspeakers. Specialty Construction suffered as a result. Decorative Painting Conference It is the third aspect – the reverberation Gilding Education 2. The previous sound system in Battin Hall Murals & Artwork EverGreene Architectural Arts of the room itself – that is perhaps of Plaster & Scagliola New York | Chicago | Washington DC Sponsor had loudspeakers located behind listeners Stone, Wood & Metal Services 212.244. 2800 | www.evergreene.com 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 15 greatest interest to members of the but in Battin Hall the paint had long since League. In particular, two aspects of the reduced its absorptive efficiency, at least at Back to the Future: The Lebowsky Center Maintains restoration design were critical to resolving higher frequencies. But how much? As part Historic Charm Using Energy Efficient Digital Signage the acoustical “dilemma” of creating a of the restoration, Acentech investigated the by John Kunze, Watchfire Signs space that would be well-liked for both the acoustical attributes of original horsehair felt Rebuilding after a fire provides historic existence since 1952, needed a home Lexington Symphony and Town Meeting on the ceiling using a sophisticated in-situ theater owners choices: do they start over for its programs that encompass all age within the context of an historic restoration: measurement procedure. The measurements and go high tech and high efficiency, or try groups and experience levels. Each year, (a) the introduction of new, variable acoustic were validated in a computer model of to preserve the original historic elements? In OCP productions provide opportunities for treatments that could “disappear” into the the auditorium, and then used to identify a the case of the Lebowsky Center, located in participation, including acting, orchestra historic room envelope, and (b) a forensic unique replacement: a modern material that Owosso, Michigan, the theater owners were and singing performances, set design and analysis of some very old horsehair felt would mimic the acoustical properties not of able to do both. construction, lighting and sound, production discovered on the ceiling of Battin Hall. the original horsehair felt, but of the painted The Lebowsky Center, Owosso’s last management, and of course, audience The sidewalls of Battin Hall are hard and horsehair felt that contributed to the room’s appreciation. OCP also conducts youth beloved reverberant characteristics. In the remaining historic theater, initially was sound-reflecting surfaces – plaster and home to The Capitol Theatre, a 1,200 seat workshops that impart confidence and window glass. To reduce the reverberation end, a light coat of a European “acoustical lifelong skills such as teamwork, creativity, plaster” finish material was installed, without vaudeville house that opened in 1926 and (and thereby improve clarity and was converted to a in 1985. critical thinking and composure in a public intelligibility), retractable banners were its usual sound-absorbing core, where the arena. felt had been previously. In this way, not only The Owosso Community Players (OCP), a installed in soffits live theater group, purchased the theater Realizing that enough remained of the along the full length the historic look and feel of Battin Hall was in 1991. In February 2007, a devastating fire historic structure to salvage, OCP embarked of both sides of the swept through the building, destroying most on a reconstruction plan for a 500-seat room. During Town restored; its excellent sound was, too. of it. community performing arts center with Meeting, pop music excellent sight lines and acoustics. performances, Re-opened in OCP, the only community-based performing and other events, October of 2015 arts organization in rural Shiawassee County, The historic aspects of the building were sound-absorbing with a concert quickly swung into action. The group, in continued on next page banners extend featuring singer- down from the Livingston ceiling at the push Taylor, Battin Hall is of a button. When garnering praise far the symphony and wide – and not performs, the just from Symphony banners are Photo: © Emily O'Brien goers. Mr. Taylor retracted onto complimented the room’s sound from stage motorized rollers above the ceiling. The during his inaugural concert, and a wide system is designed so that banners can range of speech and pop music events be extended independently in front of the have taken place with great success since windows, in between the windows, or both. its restoration. Importantly, the Symphony The ceiling of Battin Hall is also plaster. But remains happy as well, with the acoustics of during explorations around the site, the their home faithfully preserved. design team discovered a horsehair felt The renovation was designed by Mills finish on portions of the ceiling that was Whitaker Architects, with acoustics and AV likely original to the building, with layer design by Acentech; Nauset Construction upon layer of paint - many decades worth was the construction manager. – coated onto the surface of the felt. As part of the renovation, the felt would need to be removed in order to accommodate other changes at the ceiling plane related to lighting and fire safety. Felt was once in common use as a sound-absorbing material, INLEAGUE | PAGE 16 League of Historic American Theatres new solutions for their light-flasher motor that ran the marquee’s marquee restoration. chaser lights. It was a 1945 motor made by As the theater rebuild Watchfire’s original parent company, Time- progressed, Ludington O-Matic. It needed a little clean-up and oil, contacted Mark Agnew but it’s back in working order and running with Agnew Sign and 900 new LED chaser lights. Ludington and his Graphics to learn wife volunteered their time to hand clean about LED signs and to and rewire every socket and install the new determine if an LED sign energy efficient bulbs. Theater goers can could be retrofitted into even see the Time-O-Matic motor working the existing framework through a lobby window that shows the inner to mimic the look of the workings of the marquee. old marquee with a high The reconstructed theater and enhanced degree of accuracy. OCP programming will have a major and The quality of the LED sign longstanding community impact. Prior to the portion of the marquee devastating fire, the Lebowsky Center was was especially important. the largest drawing venue in the city. OCP’s To mimic the original performances helped support many of the display it was necessary surrounding businesses and invigorated the to find LED components central business district. The rebuilt theater will honored and respected that could accurately serve as an anchor in the redevelopment of in the rebuild process. At reflect the white background an historic business and entertainment district the same time, features of the original Bakelite tiles. with strength and vitality. were incorporated into the design and Agnew retrofitted the marquee with a 16mm building efforts that support a sustainable LED sign from Watchfire Signs, a manufacturer concept. The reconstruction effort lowers in Danville, . the environmental footprint by converting “It is natural for LEDs to dim over time, but the theater to a high-performance building Watchfire’s high quality components and that is less costly to operate, healthier for color calibration ensure that the white occupants, and durable enough to last for background of their content will remain generations. High efficiency heating, cooling, true. Inferior components can dim unevenly, and ventilation systems were installed, along causing white content to appear pink,” said with an energy efficient lighting system and Agnew. In addition, LED signs are very energy low-flow fixtures and other water saving efficient and operate for just pennies a day. devices. At nighttime, when not as much brightness The front of the building and original is needed, the signs automatically dim, marquee were spared during the fire so it was lowering power consumption even further. important for this part of the exterior to pay “We have a state-of-the-art display out homage to the original design. With many front that maintains our historic look,” said of the original Bakelite panels broken in the Ludington. “Our sign is so easy to operate. It’s marquee, the intricate design and operation an awesome addition to our theater and our of the marquee made the prospect of a total community.” Ludington programs content restoration difficult and potentially expensive. that varies from logos and photos related to Despite the building’s location within a upcoming shows, and lettering that copies designated historic district, and some the original marquee’s content – right down initial reluctance to consider an LED sign, to a font that matches the old manually Carl Ludington, the electrician for the applied letter tiles. Owosso Community Players, was open to His faith in the reliability of the equipment was affirmed when he found the original INLEAGUE | PAGE 18 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 19 League Awards Program Spotlights Excellence On Sunday, July 17, the League of Historic The jury reviewing nominations for this year’s American Theatres presents its 40th Annual theatre and individual awards included past Conference Awards ceremony and reception. winners and LHAT Past Board Presidents. During the ceremony the League will honor the recipients of the 2016 Outstanding Historic The 2016 Outstanding Individual Contribution Westlake Reed Leskosky is a proud sponsor + member Theatre Award and 2016 Outstanding Individual Award recognizes an individual who of the League of Historic American Theatres Contribution Award, whose distinguished demonstrates vision, dedication, selflessness Balboa Theatre achievements inspire excellence in our field. and excellence through his or her contribution to historic theatres and their communities. The The League believes that historic theatres are recipient of this award will have demonstrated irreplaceable social, economic, historic and excellence through his or her significant cultural resources for their communities. As iconic, contributions, the impact of his or her services creative places of public assembly, they build and breadth of populations served, and the community loyalty, reinforce community identity length of time and/or intensity of contributions and heritage, stimulate downtown revitalization, that benefit the field of historic theatres. promote pride of place and anchor creative economies. We envision these unique showcases Previous recipients of the Outstanding for human creativity, arts and culture as vital assets Individual Contribution Award are: in livable communities throughout North America. The Clemens Center The League’s Awards Program inspires excellence James Boese by recognizing theatres and individuals for their Theater Doctors, Inc. significant accomplishments or distinguished service to our field. Michael Price, Executive Director Goodspeed Opera House The 2016 Outstanding Historic Theatre Award recognizes an exemplary theatre, demonstrating Ted King excellence in its community impact, quality of Calhoun’s GEM Theatre programs and services, and quality of physical restoration or rehabilitation. An award-winning Dulcie Gilmore, Director, Arie Crown Theater theatre will have demonstrated excellence through at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL significant achievement, the impact of its services and breadth of populations served, and the length Jeff Greene, President, EverGreene of time and/or intensity of its activities. Architectural Arts, New York, NY Tennessee Theatre Andrea Rogers, Executive Director, Flynn Previous recipients of the Outstanding Historic Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT Theatre Award are: Killis Almond, FAIA, Almond Architects, PC, Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN , TX

York Theatre, Elmhurst, IL Janis A. Barlow, Principal, Janis A. Barlow & New York City Center, New York, NY Associates, Toronto, , Canada

Palace Theatre Trust, NH Craig Morrison, Architect, New York, NY

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INLEAGUE | PAGE 20 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 21 Pickwick Theatre, Mercury Theater, Conference Theatre Tours Park Ridge, IL Chicago, IL neighborhood playhouse where they could Pre-Conference Theatre Ramble Designed by the firm of Zook & McCaughey, the The beautifully renovated Mercury Theater enjoy performances of their beloved . 1,500-seat, Pickwick Theatre began life in 1928 as Chicago is an intimate jewel box of a theater in Sunday, July 17 Consequently, the Athenaeum was designed a vaudeville and movie house. the heart of the Southport Corridor. The building with not only opera in mind, that houses the Mercury opened in 1912 as but dance, orchestral, and In 1975, the theatre was named to the National a silent film nickelodeon, named The Blaine dramatic productions as Register of Historic Places, insuring its preservation

Photo: Courtesy of theAthenaeum Theatre Theatre. Though little of the original Blaine is left, well. The Main Stage of the as a cinema treasure. But it did not reach true some remnants still exist including the decorative Athenaeum seats 985, with acclaim until the theatre’s facade was used as plaster busts flanking the House. The intimate seating on the main floor, lower the backdrop for the opening sequence of Siskel theater now boasts warm exposed brick walls balcony, and upper balcony. and Ebert’s “At the Movies” in the 1980s. and seats that were recovered and refurbished Thanks to a unique design In 1990, three smaller screens were added to from a 1933 era Boston movie house. where the balcony extends the rear of the Pickwick Theatre, enhancing approximately 2/3 over the the theatre’s commercial prospects without www.mercurytheaterchicago.com main floor, the Main Stage endangering the original auditorium. offers an intimate setting that During 2007, the Bog Theatre Company, which belies the grandeur of the was formerly housed in the theatre. Even a seat in the building in downtown Des Plaines, presented live corner of the upper balcony theatrical productions at the Pickwick Theatre. rests only 95 feet from the The Pickwick Theatre also hosts other occasional stage. With no barriers, like live entertainment and special events. columns or pillars, to obstruct the view of the stage, patrons In 2012, the marquee was repainted in black & in the Main Stage enjoy not white, with some red, to return it to its original Athenaeum Theatre, only its magnificent acoustics, but also clear sight colors. Further renovations were completed lines from every seat. Athenaeum patrons can in October 2012 which returned the original Chicago, IL also partake of refreshments before and during auditorium to its style splendor. The performances from the Curtain Call Club, the main auditorium now has a reduced capacity of For over 100 years, the Athenaeum has stood as cabaret space located just off the lobby. 1,000, with wider new seats. Seating capacities in the three smaller additional auditoriums are now a cornerstone in the Lakeview neighborhood. The Athenaeum also houses three smaller studio 160, 96 and 220. www.pickwicktheatre.com Fr. George Thomas, the pastor of St. Alphonsus theatres. Studio 1 is located on the first floor, Catholic Church in the early 1900's, envisioned Studio 2 on the second floor, and Studio 3 on the a multi-purpose social and recreation center to third floor, seating 67, 81, and 87, respectively. serve the many needs of the expanding parish. Five Off-Loop theatres are resident in the Thanks in large part to the creative vision of Fr. Athenaeum Studio Theatres. The second and Thomas, and his collaboration with architect third floors of the Athenaeum provide rehearsal Hermann J. Gaul on this ambitious project, the spaces and dance studios, plus administrative Athenaeum opened at the corner of Oakdale offices for more than a dozen artistic and Southport Avenues on November 18, 1911 organizations. (on the site of the original St. Alphonsus Church). In its initial years, the Athenaeum provided St. Since 2011 Athenaeum Theatre Productions Alphonsus parishioners with a variety of services, (ATP) has managed the 66,000 SF building. Today it provides affordable space for the arts, For more than a century Tiffin Scenic Studios has from meeting rooms to a library to a gymnasium, been designing and manufacturing the safest music, billiard, card rooms and 4 bowling alleys. educational, and social service communities. equipment in the business, ensuring that you From 1926 to 1966, The Sisters of Notre Dame ran The building houses four performance spaces, can depend on our rigging and drapery for a girls' commercial high school on the second offices for 14 not for profit performing arts groups, years to come. With our sister company, Athletic floor. rehearsal rooms, as well as a gymnasium and the Performance Rigging, we can collaborate with Lakeview food pantry. you to accomplish even your most complex goals. The Athenaeum is Chicago's oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre. Most of the founding For more information visit athenaeumtheatre.org. parishioners of St. Alphonsus were German 800.445.1546 and German-American, and conceived a www.tiffinscenic.com 146 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 INLEAGUE | PAGE 22 League of Historic American Theatres York Theatre, Elmhurst, IL Theatre Tours Recipient of the 2014 LHAT Outstanding Historic Theatre Award Pre-Conference Theatre Ramble Sunday, July 17 Continued Built in 1924, the 1,100-seat York Theatre, designed rooklyn royalty by Elmer Behrns, features a Spanish motif and a B three-manual 10-rank Barton pipe organ. In 1938, the interior and exterior designs were changed to an Art Deco style. There was a partial roof collapse in 1976, resulting in loss of ornament, original terra cotta and the entire plaster ceiling and dome. Classic Cinemas. Owned by Willis and Shirley Johnson, acquired the building in 1984, but stringent building codes and fire ordinances delayed the theatre's renovation. In a remarkable display of cooperation between local government and private enterprise, the City of Elmhurst (led by former city manager, Thomas Borchert), provided a second mortgage, enabling the renovation to move forward. The enlightened actions by the City, coupled with the Johnsons' desire for excellence, produced a fully renovated York Theatre. In 1991, the theatre reopened with three screens (the additional screens were a result of newly acquired property, leaving the original single screen intact), and - , New York a 1926 two-manual seven-rank Barton organ from the Rialto Theatre, Champaign IL. The Art Deco marquee was restored. The interior was returned to its original Spanish atmosphere under the expertise of designer Joseph DuciBella. Many of the original decorative elements in the main auditorium were saved, including the proscenium arch and the organ grills. Twelve Chicago Dallas original wall scones were restored, as well as pair of "birdcages" from the Palace Theatre in Gary, schulershook.com IN. Decorative components from historic theatres were incorporated into the new theatres as they 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 25 high, is one of the few such signs in existence today. Among the many stars that played the theatre are redecorated, although much of the original design A symbol of State Street and Chicago, the sign and Paul Ash (billed as "the Rajah of "), The Three was retained. The Shubert stage became home to an Theatre Tours marquee are landmarks in themselves, as is the 29- Stooges, , Al Jolson, Stepin Fetchit, astounding array of classic plays and musicals such Conference Theatre Tours rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. Sophie Tucker, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Cab as CAROUSEL, SOUTH PACIFIC, GUYS AND DOLLS, THE Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fanny Brice, Danny Kaye KING AND I, MY FAIR LADY and A CHORUS LINE. In Sunday, July 17 In 1986, Chicago Theatre Restoration Associates, with assistance from the City of Chicago, bought and Alice Faye. During a record-breaking week in 1991, the Nederlander Organization purchased the and saved the theatre from demolition and began a 1930, as many as 124,985 patrons visited the Oriental Majestic Building from the Shubert Organization. The meticulous nine-month multi-million dollar restoration to see the hit film "Flight." Although management Shubert continued to host a wide array of quality undertaken by Chicago architects Daniel P. Coffey changed hands several times in the subsequent theatrical productions, including the Chicago Chicago Theatre decades, the theatre continued to feature films premiere of RENT, CHICAGO-THE MUSICAL, CABARET

Photo by Adam Alexander Photography; Courtesy of Choose Chicago® & Associates, Ltd. and interior design consultants A.T. Heinsbergen & Co. of Los Angeles, interior design until the early 1970s, at which time it hosted live and the Pre-Broadway engagements of THE GOODBYE consultants. The Chicago Theatre reopened on performances by such artists as Stevie Wonder, Gladys GIRL and Julie Andrews in VICTOR/VICTORIA. September 10, 1986 with a gala performance by Frank Knight and the Pips and Little Richard. Since the formation of Broadway In Chicago in 2000, Sinatra. Soon the theater fell into disrepair. In an effort to the rich history of exceptional entertainment has For more information, visit preserve the theatre, it was added to the Federal continued with the Pre-Broadway World Premieres of www.thechicagotheatre.com. National Registry of Historic Places in 1978, but the Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp's MOVIN' OUT and MONTY building continued to crumble. The theatre was closed PYTHON'S SPAMALOT. In 2005, the theatre closed to the public in 1981, and the site was considered for for a glorious multi-million dollar restoration and was Conference Theatre Tours a two-story, 50,000 square-foot shopping mall and a reopened in May 2006 as the LaSalle Bank Theatre, Monday, July 18 1,600 seat cinema. In 1996, Chicago Mayor Richard and later the Bank of America Theatre in 2008. Since M. Daley announced that the Oriental would be that time, the venue has hosted the long run of the restored to its original grandeur for the presentation of musical phenomenon , the Pre-Broadway Ford Center for the live stage musicals. Renamed the Ford Center for the World Premiere , and Performing Arts in 1997, the restoration of the theatre Blockbuster THE BOOK OF MORMON. Performing Arts / Oriental was completed in October 1998, at which time it was Beginning with the production of CABARET, on opened with the Chicago premiere of RAGTIME. In Tuesday, February 9, the theatre will transform with a 1999, FOSSE debuted at the Oriental Theatre before new marquee and signage to unveil The PrivateBank embarking on a national tour. The list of hits goes on, Theatre. At a press conference on December 8, including the pre-Broadway premiere of BLAST in 2000, 2015, Broadway In Chicago and The PrivateBank the world premiere of SING-A-LONG WIZARD OF OZ in announced this dynamic partnership, a partnership January 2003, the record-breaking run of WICKED from that is committed to bring the best of Broadway to our 2005 to 2009, BILLY ELLIOT and the pre-Broadway World Chicago Theatre District including the breathtaking The grandeur of The Chicago Theatre often leaves Premiere of BIG FISH in 2013. In 2014, the hits include its visitors breathless. The elegant lobby, majestic announcement of Broadway's biggest hit, HAMILTON, the National Tour Premiere of and Disney's which will make The PrivateBank Theatre its new home staircase and beautiful auditorium complete with NEWSIES. murals above the stage and on the ceiling, are beginning in September of 2016. components of an amazing building called "the For more information, visit broadwayinchicago.com/ For more information, visit broadwayinchicago.com/ Wonder Theatre of the World" when it opened on theatre/chicagos-oriental-theatre. theatre/the-privatebank-theatre. October 26, 1921. Built in French Baroque style, The Chicago Theatre's exterior features a miniature replica of Paris' Arc de PrivateBank Theatre Triomphe, sculpted above its State Street marquee. (formerly Bank of America; Shubert) Faced in a glazed, off-white terra cotta, the triumphal arch is sixty feet wide and six stories high. Within the The theatre was opened on New Year's Day in 1906 as arch is a grand window in which is set a large circular Photo by Adam Alexander Photography; Courtesy of Choose Chicago® the Majestic Theatre. The architects of the venue were stained-glass panel bearing the coat-of-arms of the Edmund R. Krause and George L. and Cornelius Rapp, Balaban and Katz chain - two horses holding ribbons As one of the first motion picture palaces whose and it was the first venue in Chicago to cost over of 35-mm film in their mouths. décor was inspired by the Far East, Chicago's Oriental one million dollars. The Majestic Building, the tallest Theatre opened to much fanfare on May 8, 1926. building in Chicago when it was first built, became a The grand lobby, modeled after the Royal Chapel at Designed by George L. and Cornelius W. Rapp for Chicago landmark, and the theatre instantly became Versailles, is five stories high and surrounded by gallery theatre managers Balaban and Katz, the theatre, a a popular destination for vaudeville acts. virtual museum of Asian art, presented popular first- promenades at the mezzanine and balcony levels. In the 1920s, it became part of the famous Orpheum run motion pictures, complemented by lavish stage The grand staircase is patterned after that of the Paris Circuit and host to legendary luminaries Harry Houdini shows. Turbaned ushers led patrons from the lobby, Opera House and ascends to the various levels of the and Lily Langtry. In 1932, during the Great Depression, with polychrome figures and large mosaics of an Great Balcony. the Majestic closed its doors and remained empty Indian prince and princess, through an inner foyer The 3,600 seat auditorium is seven stories high, more for 15 years. In 1945, the theatre was purchased with elephant-throne chairs and multicolored glazed Photo courtesy of Broadway In Chicago by the Shubert Organization and reopened as the than one half of a city block wide, and nearly as long. Buddhas, to the auditorium's "hasheesh-dream décor." The vertical sign "C-H-I-C-A-G-O," at nearly six stories Sam Shubert Theatre. The venue was restored and

INLEAGUE | PAGE 26 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 27 1954 (as Lyric Theatre), the Civic Opera House was the mid-1970s, the management of the Bismarck Hotel home to the , Chicago Grand Cadillac Palace Theatre transformed the auditorium into a banquet hall by Theatre Tours Opera Company, Chicago City Opera Company and removing the seats on the orchestra level and bringing . The Palace Theatre opened at the corner of Randolph the floor flush with the stage. In 1984, the theatre, now Conference Theatre Tours The is a majestic limestone and LaSalle Streets in Chicago on October 4, 1926. renamed the Bismarck Theatre, was converted into a with a 45-story office tower and two Designed by legendary theatre architects the Rapp rock venue. Sporadically used during the 1990s, the ednesday uly W J 20 22-story wings, shaped like a gigantic throne facing Brothers, the theatre originally opened as the flagship venue was completely restored and renovated during the Chicago River. The auditorium and its backstage of vaudeville's legendary Orpheum Circuit, and 1999, and reopened as the Cadillac Palace Theatre.

Civic Opera House Photo by Elizabeth Fraiberg Photography; Courtesy of Choose Chicago®. Home of areas occupy approximately one-third of the total The restored theatre was reopened during the fall of space of the building. The distinguishing feature on the 1999, with the premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice's side of the Civic Opera Building is the AIDA. Since then, the Cadillac Palace has been the The world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago performs colonnaded portico that runs the entire length of the home to several pre-Broadway hits including THE in one of North America's most beautiful opera houses, building. At the south end, large bronze doors open PRODUCERS – THE NEW MEL BROOKS MUSICAL and the Civic Opera House. The opera house was the onto the grand foyer of the Civic Opera House, whose MAMMA MIA!, long-run engagements of Disney's THE vision of utility magnate (1859-1938), a gilt cornices glitter beneath the sparkling lights of LION KING and Oprah Winfrey presents THE COLOR populist billionaire known as "the Prince of Electricity" Austrian crystal chandeliers and elaborately stenciled PURPLE, plus the national tour premieres of Disney Insull, the president of the Chicago Civic Opera ceilings. The magnificent space features a floor and and Cameron Mackintosh present MARY POPPINS Association, wanted to erect a new opera house to wainscoting of pink and gray Tennessee marble, and and Dreamworks' SHREK THE MUSICAL. This year, the replace Louis B. Sullivan's Auditorium Building on South fluted Roman travertine columns and pilasters. The Cadillac Palace Theatre hosts, among many others, Michigan Avenue as the home of the Chicago Civic 40-foot- high columns are topped with carved capitals ANNIE and Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA. Opera-- one that would be democratic in scope, and covered in gold leaf. An imposing grand double For more information, visit broadwayinchicago.com/ would be housed in and supported by a commercial staircase leads to the mezzanine foyer, where there theatre/cadillac-palace-theatre. office building. He mandated five requisites for are thirty-one boxes. Above this box level are two

the new opera house: safety, excellent sight lines, Photo from the lyricopera.org website. more balconies, each with 800 seats. The Civic Opera House seats 3,563. The decorative character of the entire building is a hybrid of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Comedy- tragedy masks and cornucopia of instruments abound as playful ornaments around entrances, inspired by the Paris Opera House designed by Jean-Louis- Charles Garnier. The famous painted fire curtain I’ve been in your shoes. (depicting the parade scene from Aida) and the • A consultant who has actually run an interior decoration details of the Civic Opera House historic theatre. were created by American artist Jules Guerin in • (Four actually, for over 20 years!) a palette of salmon pinks, roses, olives, golds and among the stars believed to have played the Palace bronzes. in its early years are Jimmy Durante, Mae West, Sophie • A consultant who has managed an In 1993, Lyric Opera of Chicago purchased all of Tucker, Jack Benny and Bob Hope. historic restoration project as a the theater and backstage space in the Civic The theatre's interior featured a splendor previously professional staff person from the ground Opera Building. Previously Lyric Opera had rented unseen in Chicago — a breathtaking vision inspired up, “good idea” stage. the auditorium and backstage areas. A massive by the palaces of Fontainebleau and Versailles. $100-million renovation of the backstage area The theatre's distinctive characteristics included a The help you want, with commenced in 1993, and continued during Lyric's lobby richly appointed in huge decorative mirrors off-seasons (mid- March through early September) and breche violet and white marble, which swept the experience you need! through 1996. The improvements made during this majestically through a succession of lobbies and • Capital and Annual Campaigns project allow Lyric Opera to continue producing foyers; great wall surfaces enhanced with gold leaf • Business and Strategic Plans world-class opera well into the 21st century. The and wood decorations; and 2,500 plush, roomy seats. purchase and renovation was made possible by Lyric's • Program Development $100-million "Building on Greatness" capital campaign. Despite the popularity of such acts, audiences in the • Organizational and Board Development late 1920s and early 1930s had begun to lose interest in The Lyric Opera of Chicago/Chicago Symphony comfortable seating, gracious surroundings, and Orchestra Facilities Fund helped launch Lyric's vaudeville, and in 1931 the theatre was converted into Call Susan for a free consultation! premium acoustics. campaign with a $50 million commitment. a , initially presenting films with live stage shows, and then eventually showing only movies. The Palmer Westport Group The design team chosen by Insull, the Chicago For more information, visit www.lyricopera.org/about/ When movie audiences began staying at home to 413 297 3619 architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & civicoperahouse. watch television in the 1950s, the theatre managers, www.palmerwestport.com White, wanted the Civic Opera Building to symbolize hoping to attract larger audiences, booked [email protected] "the spirit of a community which is still youthful and occasional Broadway shows into the theatre, such as not much hampered by traditions." From its opening GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES starring Carol Channing. on Nov. 4, 1929 (just six days after the stock-market During the late 1950s, the Palace was fitted with Helping theatres transform communities since 2005 crash) until Lyric Opera of Chicago was founded in special equipment to show films in Cinerama. During INLEAGUE | PAGE 28 League of Historic American Theatres 2016 LHAT National Partners

DISNEY THEATRICAL GROUP (DTG) operates under the direction of Thomas Schumacher and is among the world’s most successful commercial theatre enterprises, bringing live entertainment events to a global annual audience of more than 19 million people in more than 50 countries. Under the Disney Theatrical Productions banner, the group produces and licenses Broadway musicals around the world. DTP has collaborated with the country’s leading regional theatres to develop new stage titles including Mary Zimmerman’s Survey Says adaptation of The Jungle Book and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Its new Broadway musical Aladdin opened on Broadway to great critical acclaim. In addition, DTG licenses musical titles for local, school and community theatre productions through Music Theatre International. Thank you to everyone who participated in the LHAT Member Survey. We will be doing a more detailed report in the Fall MAURY, DONNELLY & PARR, INC. (MDP), is the administrator of National Trust Insurance Services, LLC (NTIS) and the Historic Theatre Insurance Program Resource Guide with economic impact exclusive to LHAT. MDP Programs is proud to support LHAT as a strategic studies. partner and to assist members in finding the most comprehensive and affordable insurance to meet their organization’s needs. Historic theatres are Our Membership is: unique and this should be reflected in the insurance products that protect them. Our program provides policy features that are not available in the general insurance marketplace. As a subsidiary of the National Trust for Non-Profit 72% Historic Preservation, MDP/NTIS is the leading provider of insurance solutions Non-profit(gov't, univ., muni.) 21% for historic properties. For more information, visit our website: www.mdpins. For-Profit 7% com

Film Houses (fulltime) 18% Having celebrated its 100th anniversary, the NEDERLANDER ORGANIZATION Part of a larger organization 34.52% is a company prominent for three generations in the ownership of theatres and the production of distinguished theatrical and concert presentations and is one of the largest and most experienced managers of legitimate Not Yet Open 9.5% venues and entertainment properties in America today. In addition to producing innumerable plays and musicals, operas, ballets and , Planning Capital Project 78% the Nederlander organization owns/operates nine Broadway theatres and a chain of legitimate theatres and amphitheaters around America and in Involved in/Planning a . In 2009, the Nederlanders established The National High School Capital Campaign 63% Musical Award, named “The Jimmy Award” to celebrate outstanding student performances in high school musical productions across the United Average Budget (expense) $1.9 million States. www.nederlander.com

Average attendance 101K THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION is America’s oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on Broadway. Since 1900, the Hottest Programming: company has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the nation. The Nutcracker, Shows Shubert Foundation, a not-for-profit entity established in 1945, provides & Broadway Touring Shows general operating support for not-for-profit, professional, resident theatre and dance companies. Shubert Ticketing, a division of the Organization, Are you feeling better this year or worse? serves both Shubert theatres and a wide array of clients via a range of online Better 72% channels, the Telecharge.com call center, at box offices, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents. Today, the Shubert Organization owns and Same 25% operates seventeen Broadway theatres as well as six Off-Broadway stages Worse 3% in New York City. Outside New York, the company owns both the Shubert Theatre in Boston and the Forrest Theatre in . www.shubertorg. Biggest Challenges: com Fundraising, Staffing, Programming

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INLEAGUE | PAGE 38 League of Historic American Theatres She also spent 23 years with Denver Center for the Amy Ball Braswell, Project Manager of Spotlight Meredith Arms Bzdak, Ph.D., an architectural historian, Performing Arts as Director of Ticketing Services. Southwest Virginia, is a native of Southwest Virginia. is a Partner in the Princeton, NJ firm Mills + Schnoering Active with INTIX for 25+ years with 18 on its board She has a B.S. from Virginia Tech and a M.A.L.S. Architects, LLC. As Associate Graduate Faculty at SPEAKER and the current Chair-Elect, Maureen served three from Hollins University. Amy has worked throughout Rutgers University in the Art History Department, she times as conference chair and frequently presents at Virginia in a variety of positions from public relations teaches classes on the development of the modern conferences, seminars and workshops. She has won and marketing, to retail sales and spent 8 years city, the preservation of the recent past, and modern several high-profile awards. in higher education. Amy has worked for Barter Italian architecture. She currently serves on the Board Theatre in multiple capacities on and off for the last of Directors of DOCOMOMO US and DOCOMOMO BIOS Brian Andreotti handles bookings for Music Box 14 years including front of house (box office, house New York/Tri-State and is the author of Public Films. Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly Josh Allen, an award-winning lighting designer, has management, group sales) and development. An Sculpture in New Jersey; Monuments to Collective established itself as one of the leading distributors avid theatre goer, Amy has attended productions Identity. She holds a BA in Art History from Mount designed more than 150 productions for theatre, of foreign language, American independent, and dance, and television nationwide. His experience across the country and abroad. Amy is married to Gill Holyoke College and a PhD in Art History from Rutgers documentary films in the US in theatres, on DVD/ Braswell, an member of Actor's equity with whom she University. includes nearly four years representing dimming, Blu-ray and via Video-on-Demand. Music Box Films is lighting, and automated rigging manufacturers co-owns Capo's , a NAMM Top 100 music independently owned and operated by the Southport Robert Caplis, Director of Sales for Choice CRM, spent in the Carolinas with W.H. Onley Co., installation store for the last 4 consecutive years. Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates the last four years in the ticketing industry, working with management for a theatrical systems integrator, The , Chicago’s premiere venue for David J. Brown leads the National Trust's venues to increase ticket sales and improve patron production management for the NYC/ Brooklyn independent and foreign films. comprehensive preservation efforts, with four engagement. Prior to that, he spent his time with the Summer Concert Series, and lighting direction for decades of experience in saving historic places Purple Rose Theatre Company, founded by actor Jeff various television and film studios. Josh holds a BFA in Aaron Bare is Director of Marketing for Etix. He and building thriving, livable communities. He Daniels. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan technical theatre from Ohio’s Otterbein College, and brings more than 15 years of venue marketing and oversees the Trust's National Treasure campaigns Ross School of Business. is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. management experience in sports, concerts and the which help protect some of the country's most performing arts to Etix and its client marketing division, Eugene Carr, founder and CEO of Patron Technology, Maureen Andersen has 30+ years of experience, significant and threatened historic places. David Rockhouse Partners. With an extensive knowledge has been an innovator in the area of e-marketing spanning not-for-profit, commercial arts, Broadway, also guides the Trust's advocacy work, oversees of both traditional and modern marketing practices, for arts & cultural organizations since 1996, when he regional ticketing, performing arts centers and support for local preservation leadership, promotes Aaron believes Rockhouse Partners’ purpose is to founded CultureFinder.com. Initially funded by AOL. colleges. She has worked the box office and call preservation's role in environmental sustainability practically blend the advantages of modern digital com and Comcast, it became an award-winning centers, and with season tickets, group sales, through the Preservation Green Lab, and is leading marketing with the real-word, everyday needs of their nationwide arts calendar and online ticketing service. marketing, fundraising and management. Before the exploration and adaptation of new models of Etix clients. The only metric for success at Rockhouse is preservation at National Trust historic sites. From 1999- Gene earned a BA in history from Oberlin College, joiningLHAT.ai 1 7/1/2016 AudienceView, 9:04:56 AM Maureen was INTIX’s interim client satisfaction. and a music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, President and a Paciolan Senior Business Consultant. 2003, David successfully led the organization's $135 million Campaign for America's Historic Places. earning Phi Kappa Lambda honors, and then earned Nick Begley has 10+ years of experience and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. Gene worked participated in nine INTIX events. At AudienceView, Prior to joining the National Trust, David served as in arts management serving as the executive director he oversees online/search engine marketing, our the founding executive director of the Preservation of the American Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to corporate website, event/tradeshow management, Alliance of Virginia, where he produced one of 1996. Gene is the author of Breaking the Fifth Wall: marketing and sales collateral, brand management, the nation's first studies on the economic impact Rethinking Arts Marketing for the 21st Century (2011) advertising and plays a large role in marketing of preservation. The study allowed the Alliance as well as three previous books on e-marketing: automation/lead generation. He is also recognized as SERAPID STAGE AND ORCHESTRA LIFTS to successfully campaign for state rehabilitation Wired for Culture: How E-mail is Revolutionizing Arts For Historic Theatre RenovaƟons the guy with the viral candy bar resume. Previously, tax credits, eventually leading to nearly $1 billion Marketing (Third Edition) (2007), Sign-Up for Culture: Nick worked with NeuLion, XOS Technologies, in credits, $3 billion in private investment, and the The Arts Marketer’s Guide to Building an Effective MVP Sports Clubs, Orlando Magic and the NY/NJ rehabilitation of more than 2,300 buildings since 1997. E-mail List (Second Edition) (2007), and Web Sites for Few spaces combine visual splendor and colorful history like America’s great old MetroStars. Nick holds a BA in PR from Mount Saint theatres. Restoring these spaces takes not only dedicaƟon but also a solid Culture: Essential Principles for Great Arts Web Sites understanding of historical building renovaƟon. Mary College (Newburgh, NY) and a dual MBA and David served as chairman of the Governor's (2005). He also writes a blog: Wired for Culture. Masters’ of Sport Business Management from the Commission to Study Historic Preservation in Virginia C SERAPID has the experƟse and creaƟve capacity to bring new technology to historical M spaces. Our custom built stage systems are specially designed by our talented University of Central Florida. and on the board of The Corporation for Jefferson's Russ Collins is Executive Director & CEO of the Y engineers for each unique theatre. Poplar Forest. Today, he serves on the executive CM Michigan Theater, a fully-restored 1920s movie palace MY We understand that bringing your historic theatre back to life is a labor of love. Todd Bemis has served as Vice President for Theatre committee of the International National Trusts that hosts high quality films and live stage programs. CY SERAPID recognizes the importance of protecƟng the integrity of your building while Operations, Columbus Association of Performing Organisation (INTO) and represents the National Trust CMY accommodaƟng new technologies and equipment. Russ teaches film studies and arts administration at K Arts (CAPA) since 1979 and has direct involvement on the Board of Trustees of the National Main Street Eastern Michigan University. Russ is Co-Chair of the with the organizations efforts to revitalize the local Center. Sundance Institute’s Art House Project and Chair of Columbus arts community. He oversees all aspects the Art House Convergence. The Michigan Theater of operations for the Ohio, Palace, Southern and Gena Buhler is the Executive Director of the historic operates 4 cinema screens, including 2 at the nearby Lincoln Theatres in Columbus. He served as the Wheeler Opera House (Aspen, CO). Prior to her Art Deco style State Theatre. The Michigan Theater Owner Representative for the restoration of the role at the Wheeler, Gena spent seven years as was named the Outstanding Historic Theater in North Lincoln Theatre in 2008/09. More recently, he fulfilled the Theatre Director of the Vilar Performing Arts America by the League of Historic American Theatres. a similar role for the Drexel Movie Theatre in 2015/16. Center in Vail (Vail Valley Foundation). Originally Bemis serves on the board of trustees for the Capitol from Michigan and a graduate of the University of Kings Theatre, Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, Cedar Rapids Morris PAC, South Bend Crossroads Special Improvement District (SID), serving Michigan, Gena also spent several years in New York as Chairman of the SID in 2009. City as a booking agent at IMG Artists and The Road Company. www.serapid.com

INLEAGUE | PAGE 40 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 41 SPEAKER BIOS CON'T. Episcopal Church Women, Founding member and performances. Before joining Gettysburg College, David W. Kahn, LEED AP is acoustics expert specializing Charissa W. Durst, AIA was the architect that President of the Junior Federated Woman’s Club Gabel enjoyed a 25 career in arts management in performing art centers and historic theatre orchestrated the restoration of the Lincoln Theatre of York County, President of the Junior League of including PBS, historic theatres, foundation grant- renovations. His 30+ year career includes involvement in Columbus, OH. Ms. Durst is a registered architect Charlottesville, Executive Director of First Night Virginia making, and as Chuckles the Clown, who appeared on projects such as the Madison Theatre in Peoria, with nearly 30 years of experience in architecture and Vestry member of Christ Episcopal Church, as a special guest on the national television series“Mr. IL, Shubert Theatre/Cowles Center in Minneapolis, and cultural resources management. Aside from the Charlottesville- senior warden for 2 years. Chris met Rogers’ Neighborhood.” MN, The Stanley Theatre in Utica, NY and multiple Lincoln, she was directly involved in the restoration of her husband, Brad while attending William and Mary historic theatres in Columbus OH for CAPA. He carries the Woodward Opera House in Mount Vernon, OH, and they married in 1979. Brad and Chris have four Heather Good is Assistant Director for Outreach and passion for breathing new life into aging structures and the Sandusky Theatre in Sandusky, OH, as well children and 2 grandbabies. Development at the Wisconsin Union Theater in and enabling them to showcase and nurture talent. In as the assessment/planning of the Dunbar Theatre Madison, WI and serves on the board of the Barrymore 1991, he started the New York-based acoustic and AV in Wichita, KS, the Fairborn Theatre in Fairborn, OH, John Faust was the Manager of the Stanley Theatre Theater (also in Madison). She is a graduate of the consulting practice which today is known as Acoustic and the in Columbus, OH. She holds in Utica, NY for over 30 years. As the Stanley was Bolz Center for Arts Administration and has worked Distinctions (AD). AD establishes strong collaboration an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the primarily a licensing facility, he worked with all types with many community-based organizations including ties with architects, performance organizations University of Maryland and a Master of Architecture of promoters / presenters. This included everything the Madison Boychoir, Opera for the Young, and the and design teams to achieve sustainable buildings degree from The Ohio State University. She established from local dance schools and high schools to Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts – sustainable in terms of energy efficiency and Hardlines Design Company in 1990, and currently prominent national promoters of all types of events. In Retreat. functionality. AD’s team integrates acoustical and addition, he was the Front of House Manager at the technology expertise with other design disciplines focuses on the rehabilitation of historic buildings, Jeff Greene, Founder & President, EverGreene Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO, and has been to assure that spaces serve user needs today and including new additions, as well as new design in Architectural Arts, has for almost four decades, Jeff the seasonal manager of Housing and Transportation through the next few decades. He takes delight in historic neighborhoods. She is the firm's preservation has led large-scale interior conservation, restoration, at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY. bridging design elements to naturally enhance a planner and currently serves on the German Village and new design work for theaters, sacred, institutional, spaces ability to heighten the sense of community for Historic Commission in Columbus. Ms. Durst is also Robert Friend has 30 years of leadership in the non- commercial and civic spaces. He has helped to revive performance and educational experiences. Kahn has NCARB-certified and a Leadership in Energy Efficient profit and commercial performing arts and sports artistic and decorative practices in the U.S. and is a MS Acoustics from Pennsylvania State University, a BS Design™ (LEED®) Accredited Professional. She is a industries. He has extensive experience in strategic considered one of the country’s foremost experts in in Engineering from Columbia University and lectures founding member of the American Cultural Resources and financial business operations with significant both traditional and innovative techniques for murals, at Yale University’s Graduate School of Drama and Association and currently serves on the board. expertise in fundraising, marketing, sales, and ornamental plaster, and decorative finishes. He has New Jersey Institute of Technology. Tom Einhouse is Vice President of Facilities and Capital technology. As global head of business development served on numerous boards, including President of at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH. At the start and strategy for Patron Technology, Robert is the National Society of Mural Painters, and a Board Margaret Lake is currently a Principal at Theater of his 35 year career with Playhouse Square, he responsible for developing and implementing market Member of the League of Historic American Theaters, Doctors, Inc., an independent consulting firm concentrated on the restoration of the five historic strategies that drive sales, market intelligence, the Association for Preservation Technology, and the designed to re-imagine the Theater Industry’s theatres that comprise the now - nine performance and revenue growth for the PatronManager CRM Theater Historical Society of America. business practices. Her career began when software solution and plays a major role in the she acquired positions in both Operations and spaces of Playhouses Square. Tom has been involved Dave Hartkern, Vice President of Operations, has company’s growth and transformation objectives. Management with the Sundance Film Festival, in the redevelopment of Playhouse Square’s million been at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ Robert is an Adjunct for the Brooklyn College International Film Festival, and the Provincetown square foot commercial real estate portfolio by since 1988 and has been behind the scenes every Graduate Training Program in Performing Arts International Film Festival. Simultaneously, she was overseeing numerous multi-million dollar projects. He is season since the theater’s reopening. During his Management. He served as Executive Director for an underwriting representative, fundraiser, and most a board member of the LAND studio, the Downtown tenure, he has fostered the theater’s facility rental the Arenafootball2 Mohegan Wolves, as Director successfully an on-air music host for KRCL90.9-FM Cleveland Improvement Corporation, and the business, which has resulted in more than $7 million in of Institutional Advancement for Connecticut’s in Salt Lake City. From 2007 to 2013, Margaret was Lakewood Board of Education. Tom also served as the cumulative income. In addition, Hartkern developed Garde Arts Center, as Director of Marketing and the Executive Director of Miami’s historic Olympia past president of the Cleveland Restoration Society the theater’s front of house management through its Operations for California’s Tony Award-winning La Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing and League of Historic American Theatres. period of rapid growth through the mid to late 1990s Jolla Playhouse, and Associate Director of Marketing Arts. During her tenure, she advocated, negotiated, and brought the theater’s administrative technology Barak Epstein has operated the 1931 built Texas for Connecticut’s Long Wharf Theatre. Robert is a and implemented the theater’s transition from a into the 21st century. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers Theatre in Dallas since 2010 which has been called graduate of Boston’s Emerson College and serves on government-operated institution into a 501(C)3 University. "one of America’s great movie houses" by Filmmaker the College’s Board of Trustees. He is a past member under her explicit direction. She formulated a of the League of Historic American Theatres Board Magazine. Barak also co-founded the Oak Cliff Patrick Hyland has spent a majority of his career non-profit board in which each board member of Directors, and currently serves as Secretary of the Film Festival in 2012 which has been named one working to improve the lives of communities through committed to donating $10,000 a year over a International Ticketing Association (INTIX) Board of of the "Top 50 Film Festivals worth the entry fee" by his work on academic campuses and museums + five-year period totaling $50,000. She raised over Directors. MovieMaker Magazine. Barak is currently in the interpretive environments. He has worked on several $5,000,000 for the organization and implemented a planning and funding stages of a balcony 2nd capital improvements plan exceeding $10,000,000. Jeffrey Gabel, an administrator at Gettysburg performing and cultural arts projects for the Cleveland screening room renovation at the Texas Theatre. Margaret next convinced the City of Miami to lease College, is the Founding Executive Director of the Museum of Art, Penn State University, the University the theater, eight adjacent retail spaces, and the Majestic Theater, a $16.5 million renovation in 2005 of Mount Union, Westminster College, and the New Christine Eure currently serves as the Executive eighty-two low-income housing units to the non-profit of a downtown 1925 Colonial Revival vaudeville and Albany Community Foundation, among others. Mr. Director of The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, who managed it, thus ensuring its financial stability motion picture theater. Today, the Majestic features Hyland graduated with a Master of Architecture from VA. Previously Chris served as the Executive Director well in to the future. In 2013 the Ace Hotel Group LLC an 820-seat historic theater, two cinemas, and art the Yale School of Architecture in 2004. He earned his of the Regional Unit of the Northeast, the Southeast recruited Margaret’s consulting services to spearhead gallery, as well as a 20,000 square foot, state of the Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction in 1997 from and the Virginias and Carolinas of Recording for the the re-opening of the 1927 Theater in art backstage production area. The Majestic is open the Pennsylvania State University, where he was also Blind & Dyslexic. Chris received her Bachelor of Arts . These duties included the 360 days annually, presenting a diverse celebrity awarded a Faculty Letter of Commendation. He is a from William and Mary in 1979. Prior civic activities also oversight of the renovation, business plan, staffing, include serving as President of the Junior Federated series of 20 touring shows, a nightly double-bill of first- registered architect in the State of Ohio. Woman’s Club of Petersburg, President of the release fine art films, and 50 college and community

INLEAGUE | PAGE 42 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 43 SPEAKER BIOS CON'T. performances each year, and balances this with a full hiring, and opening of the Theater. Throughout schedule of community-based theater, dance and her career Margaret has been a public speaker, music events. Marty has also served as the Executive published writer, film and music programmer, and an Director of the Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids event producer leading to her invaluable professional in...you guessed it...Michigan. He has served on many relationships. state, local and NEA review panels, and is consulted frequently about the challenges and opportunities of Mark Litvin has been Senior Vice President and arts in rural places. Marty has recently guided the Reif Managing Director of New York City Center since Performing Arts Center through a 3-year, $11 million 2001. Mark has helped lead the operations this facility renovation that closed the stage for a full year. Moorish Revival theater on West 55th Street (6th/7th) He brings a wealth of painful experience about raising constructed in 1923 as the National Mecca Temple money with an ever-increasing budget, negotiating for the Shriners. Manhattan's oldest performing arts the public (state) funding environment, dealing center, NYCity Center was dedicated in 1943 by with architects and the design team, and facing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as "The People's Theater," contractors who present seemingly inevitable project a popular, affordable alternative to Broadway, delays. Carnegie Hall, and the . Mark was responsible for the building's recently completed Donald Mason is the Executive Director of the Lyric $53 million renovation that corrected poor sightlines Theatre in Lexington, KY, after serving on the Board of and cramped seating by reducing the seats to 2,257, Directors. Donald is a graduate of Asbury University re-raking the balconies, and installing wider seats with with a B.S. in Management and Ethics and is an MBA more legroom. The renovation also included lobby Candidate at Southern New Hampshire University/ expansion and reconfiguration, a second elevator, Berklee College of Music. He also serves as President new patrons' lounge, increased and expanded of Lexington Area Music Alliance, board member for restrooms, energy-saving measures designed to LexArts and the Lexington Tourism Commission. Donald achieve a LEED Silver rating, all new theatrical is involved in the Business Volunteers of America, support systems, completely refurbished dressing serving as an advisor to arts organizations that need room tower, and a lighted and heated street-level help to sustain themselves. marquee. Previously, Mark has been Stage Manager of the Bella Lewitsky Dance Company, Production Danielle McClelland has led the non-profit Stage Manager for the Paul Taylor Dance Company management of the 600+ seat historic Buskirk- Information Systems Manager at Jacob's Pillow Dance and Tomorrow" which raised almost $7 million in (including touring internationally for five years), and Chumley Theater for the City of Bloomington, IN for Festival, an international dance festival that takes contributions and pledges. In the midst of that Technical Director of the American Dance Festival in the last fifteen years, with frequent moonlighting as place in an historic theatre in Becket, MA; Director campaign, she found herself guiding a significantly New London CT and Durham NC. He taught lighting an adjunct professor for Indiana University, writer/ of Major Gifts at WGBY Public Television. Susan has damaged theatre after Hurricane Ike through design at Adelphi University and Tisch School of the performer in venues around the country, and regional been on the faculty of Association for Performing recovery and reopening. The Grand's early reopening, Arts/NYU. After earning an MPA, he transitioned consultant on performance venues as community Arts Presenters, a national service organization for which received national media attention, served into management, working as Director of Finance catalysts. presenting theaters, a presenter at New York Council as an economic catalyst for the Island as well as an and Administration at New York Foundation for the Tobin Neis, Director of Marketing for Barbizon Lighting of Nonprofit’s (NYCON) annual meeting, a speaker emotional inspiration for Galvestonians. The most Arts, Managing Director of The Public Theater under Company, has a varied background that includes at the Foundation Center at their Boston conference, recent effort, "Brick by Brick" is a campaign to literally George C. Wolfe, and Finance Director for Broadway work in industrial and traditional theater, museums, and has been a program presenter at the League rebuild the north and south walls of the building, five producers, The Dodgers. broadcast, and corporate audiovisual environments. of Historic American Theaters at their national rows of brick thick, by repointing every layer in an Christopher Loeser, RA, is an architect and associate He holds a BA in Political Science from the University conferences in Boston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, approximate three foot square. A lead gift of $1.75 with Westlake Reed Leskosky, an architectural, of Wisconsin at Madison and a MFA in Theatre Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Schenectady, million from The Moody Foundation enabled the north engineering and technology firm specializing in the Technology from Indiana University. He is a member and New York. wall to be done, repointing hundreds of thousands of design of performing arts centers and the restoration of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology brick. The campaign continues in order to finish the of historic theaters. He has been involved on a variety (USITT) and the Illuminating Engineering Society of Chris Patton is an LED architectural lighting and job. of projects where his responsibilities have ranged North America (IESNA). controls specialist with over 17 years of experience in the entertainment technology industry, including 12 Patton, a past president of the Board of LHAT, holds a from documenting historic structures to design and Susan Palmer is the President of The Palmer Westport years working for a UK-based Theatrical dealer. For the B.A. degree in Music and a Master’s Degree in Music project management. Chris has worked closely with Group, an arts management consulting firm, which last five years, Chris has been working with GDS both Theory and Composition. Before assuming her present Playhouse Square on several projects, including the specializes in strategic, master and business planning, at the UK factory and throughout North America. position, Mrs. Patton was a voice instructor and renovation and expansion of the Allen Theatre the fundraising and organizational development for non- director of opera workshop programs at Midwestern restoration of the Ohio Lobby. profit arts and cultural organizations. Prior to forming University and Galveston College in addition to the Palmer Westport Group, Susan was Executive Maureen Patton is the Executive Director of The Grand David Marty is the President of Reif Arts Council, performing extensively as a soloist. She actively Director of historic The Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, 1894 Opera House and oversees its administration, responsible for programming and managing the works with many community building organizations. MA; a co-founder of Barrington Stage Company - a programming and fundraising, including the $2.2 645-seat Myles Reif Performing Arts Center in Grand She has served or currently is on the boards of the producing theatre company performing in a restored million capital campaign which completed the final Rapids, Minnesota (which is NOT in Michigan, though Galveston Chamber of Commerce, Galveston Park vaudeville house, that recently won two phase in January 1986, the Centennial Campaign every year or so a group of artists ends up in the Board Tourism Committee, Galveston Rotary Club, for The Putnam County Spelling Bee; managing of $2.75 million and a recent capital campaign, wrong place). The Reif presents about 40 touring the Galveston Island Railroad Museum, Galveston director of the historic Berkshire Theatre Festival; "Preserving Grand Entertainment…Yesterday, Today INLEAGUE | PAGE 44 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 44 SPEAKER BIOS CON'T. Nederlanders. Worked on presenting, among others, performing arts, stadium, and live theatre operations brands that wish to target TheaterMania’s affluent Island Outdoor Musicals, Historic Downtown/Strand the pre-Broadway engagement of Victor Victoria with worldwide for independents, major circuits, and and educated theatergoing demographic. He also Partnership, chairman of the Galveston Independent Julie Andrews, tours of Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis, the U.S. Defense and State Departments, as well leads sales of the company’s proprietary software, School District's Fine Arts Advisory Task Force and Master Class with Faye Dunaway, Stomp, Mandy as advising hundreds of business owners, non-profit OvationTix™, a comprehensive solution designed chairman of the city's Commission for the Arts, a Patinkin in Concert, and Chicago’s Spring Festival of organizations, and trade associations on credit to manage ticket sales, marketing, and fundraising commission which grew out of the work done by Dance. Bill toured with Riverdance the Show as the card payments costs, security, technology, and for performing arts productions. Andy lives in New the Chamber of Commerce Cultural Arts Task Force. Assistant Company Manager for 2 years and 73 cities. best practices. He is the Founder and Chairman Jersey with his wife and two daughters. He is actively Following Hurricane Ike, she requested that the Arts Apprenticed into the Association of Theatrical Press of Casablanca Ventures LLC, a payments industry involved in fundraising for Parkinson’s Disease research Commission be reinstated by City Council in order Agents and Managers (IATSE Local 10832). He landed consulting and brokerage firm; a Partner in the New and plays bass guitar in his spare time. to continue its work to call attention to Galveston's in NYC where he became a board-certified member York Electronic Crimes Task Force of the U.S. Secret public art and vibrant art scene. She has also served of ATPAM and returned to work for the Nederlanders Service; a member of the Board of Directors of the Lynne King Smith, CEO of TicketForce, is a writer, as a governing member of the Board of the Southwest as the Associate House Manager of the Gershwin Asian American International Film Festival and several blogger, lover of social media, and loves to share Performing Arts Presenters (SWPAP) and the , the largest theatre on Broadway. He moved other non-profit theatre organizations, the Northeast ideas about using technology across markets. She Review Panels for the Texas Commission on the Arts to the to be House Manager for the Acquirers Association, and the International Cinema helped to found and ran the communications and the Mid-America Arts Alliance as well as the Broadway opening of Hairspray with Harvey Fierstein Technology Association; a Life Member of the Will for a non-profit from 1996-2002 and worked as a Cultural Arts Council of Houston and the League and Marrisa Jaret Winokur. Bill returned to Missouri Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers Foundation, Variety senior writer for non-profits for ten years. She holds of Historic American Theatres Annual Outstanding State University in Springfield and earned a Master of the Children’s Charity, and the British Kinematograph, a BS/Business degree with an internet business Individual Contribution Award. With her extensive Arts in Teaching in 2006. Eventually he returned to NYC Sound and Television Society; and an Honorary concentration and manages the online presence background in the not-for-profit arena, she offers a to work with the Nederlanders and be Vice President Member of the FSK Cinema Projectionists Union of for TicketForce, where she is the CEO since January unique perspective not only as a grantee, but as a of Operations. His first year back, Bill project-managed Iceland and the National Film Library of New Zealand. of 2010. Her blog, The Whole Business is a casual thoughtful grantor. the renovation of the and, conversation on life and business. in a full circle moment, the Gershwin. In the coming Michael R. Schnoering, FAIA, is a Partner with Mills + Ken Stein is the current President & CEO for the Libby Penn, as Managing Director at Spektrix, gets to years, hope to renovate more Broadway theatres and Schnoering Architects, LLC, a full service architectural League. He has worked with several non-profits over bring her two greatest loves together – theatre and continue a passion for restoration and preservation firm. He manages many of the firm's theater and the past 20 years. He began his career in the for-profit technology. After directing theatre in Cambridge instilled in him by his Civil War town community of educational projects. In his work with historic theatres, sector with Humana Inc. where he spent 5 years as and at LAMDA, Libby made the move to work in Lexington. he is particularly focused on the overall design and start-ups and digital agencies, where she used digital construction processes, including project planning, Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Since technology to grow small companies into successful Katie Roche is the Development Director for the budgeting and fundraising, program development, entering the non-profit arena, Stein has raised over businesses. At Spektrix, Libby combines her passion for Englert Theatre and their flagship community site design, and project scheduling. Schnoering $100 million for local, regional, and national non- the theatre with a drive to make the arts a stronger, engagement endeavors, Mission Creek Festival and holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the profit organizations. In 2007, Fast Company Magazine more resilient sector through technology. Spektrix Witching Hour. Katie is a skilled grant writer, fundraising New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He serves named him one of the most infuencial bloggers on works with 220+ arts organizations across the US, consultant, and a member of the Association of on the Board of Directors of LHAT and the Cultural the web. Fundraising Professionals International who regularly Access Network (a project of the New Jersey Theatre Canada and the UK, including New York Theatre Alec Stoll is partner in charge of theatre planning presents and speaks on topics of community Alliance). Workshop, Royal Conservatory of Music and the Royal for Stages Consultants. With 15 years of nationwide . engagement, arts management and philanthropy. Michael Schwedler has served as General Manager experience backstage, and a further 17 in theatre Brian Phoebus is the Executive Vice President of Numa Saisselin has been the President of the nonprofit of the historic Majestic Theatre for the City of Dallas consulting, he is internationally respected as a theatre National Trust Insurance Services, LLC (NTIS) and a and historic in downtown Jacksonville Office of Cultural Affairs since May 2013. Before planner and designer. Alec has played integral roles in partner at Maury, Donnelly & Parr, Inc (MDP). Brian since 2012. His previous positions include CEO of the accepting the position with the City of Dallas, Michael well over 100 academic, professional and community was essential in the creation of NTIS. He previously Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey (2002- was a key player in the restoration, revitalization and venues and historic renovation and restoration worked as an underwriter for historic homes and for 2012), Managing and Artistic Director of the City ongoing operation of Dallas’ historic Granada Theater projects, and has served on the Board of Directors the properties owned by the National Trust for Historic University of New York’s College of State Island Arts as a live music venue. He is a lifetime veteran of the at the American Society of Theatre Consultants Preservation. He saw the need for a more robust Center (1998-2002), and Executive Director of the music and entertainment industries, working as a for 6 years. He holds an MFA in Theater Production program, which he ultimately created and pitched to Paramount Theatre in Peekskill, New York (1992-1997). professional recording and touring musician, personal Management from Brandeis University and a BFA in MDP to become the administrator in 2004. Brian has He is a graduate of the Fredonia School of Music, manager, booking agent, talent buyer and tour Technical Theatre from Emerson College. received his MBA from Adelphi University, and a Post- consultant. almost 20 years of experience in the insurance industry Craig Sumberg is Executive Director of the Fox Tucson Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from and has collaborated with LHAT since 2005. Theatre Foundation in Tucson, AZ. Prior to being Springfield College, which he attended on a full and Andy Slater is the SVP of Sales for TheaterMania.com, named Executive Director, Sumberg served as the Bill Register, who served on the 2014 NYC Conference unsolicited scholarship from the Texaco Foundation. Inc., the leading media and technology company Foundation’s Director of Development. Sumberg is a Local Planning committee, grew up in Lexington, He is currently the Secretary of the Florida Professional providing information and tickets for Broadway and graduate of the University of Virginia and the University MO, a small town of restoration and preservationists, Presenters Consortium, and a Board Member of live performing arts across the United States and of Michigan Law School, and has a long career in thanks to a civil war battle. He said, “My grandmother Downtown Vision, Inc., downtown Jacksonville’s Great Britain. Prior to accepting that position in 2013, senior development and management positions served as the town’s ‘old homes tour’ coordinator business improvement district. He is a past board his 20+ year career encompassed key advertising for various non-profit organizations. Most recently for years. At 87, she has been very proud to hear member of the League of Historic American Theatres, sales positions at companies such as Realtor.com, he served as the Senior Vice President for Resource that I’ll carry on her passion by working with LHAT. a past President of the Consortium of Eastern Regional Orbitz.com, CBS Radio, Cox Broadcasting, and Development for the Jewish Federation of Southern I’m pretty excited about it myself!’” Bill earned a B.A. Theatres, and has been a panelist for numerous Clear Channel. Andy manages TheaterMania. Arizona. Before moving to Tucson, Sumberg was the in Theatre from the University of Missouri in 1994 and foundations and grant makers. com’s advertising sales to live theater productions moved to Chicago to become Associate Theatre and entertainment throughout the U.S., as well as Executive Director of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Manager, Bank of America Theatre (formerly the Wynn J. Salisch, CCM, CHS, MBKS, has over 45 years advertising and sponsorship sales for major consumer in Washington, DC, a vibrant 900-seat arts and culture Shubert Theatre), owned and operated by the of experience directing more than 1,000 cinema, center.

INLEAGUE | PAGE 46 League of Historic American Theatres 40th Anniversary Conference & Theatre Tour July 2016 INLEAGUE | PAGE 47 SPEAKER BIOS CON'T. her community is evident in her involvement with Here are 5 reasons to attend the next League of Historic American Tom Tomlinson is an experienced, large theater local organizations including the Marion Downtown operator with special skills in the area of association Revitalization Association, United Way of Southwest Theatre’s Regional Conference: management and Board leadership as former Virginia, and the Free Clinic of Smyth County. President of the Board of the Association of Performing 1. “My first LHAT. Very impressed with the quality of the workshops.” Dr. Susan Weller, a former public school music Arts Presenters. He has served as professional director -- Brad Little, Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation / designer / stage manager for over 100 productions teacher, is now a practicing dentist in her home town 2. “This conference was excellent. An enormous value for the cost!” where for many years she was the major fund-raiser for in community, regional, and World's Fair productions. -- Jan Johnson, Roxy Project He is currently an Arts Facility and Management the local Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. Seeing the need for an arts center, Dr. Weller formed the 3. "The conference was inspiring and well planned. I have a fairly high level of experience in Consultant. From March 2014 – April 2016, he was the these areas, but there’s always something new to learn and share!” Executive Director of the new Charleston Gaillard Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Jacksonville, Illinois, -- Meagan Lauing DeNeui, Jefferson Live Center in South Carolina, which opened in Fall 2015. and put together a Board of Directors and filed for Until March 2014, Tom was Executive Director of the non-profit status. Over the past seven years, the JCA 4. “This quick regional conference format was wonderful, affordable, and spot on!! I think newly-built Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center has developed a plan with the help of Susan Palmer that the expertise and diversity of experience of our board members was apparent from their ("SKyPAC") located in the northeast corner of historic and the North group. Although the original focus was excellent presentations!! Bravo!!” Bowling Green, KY. SKyPAC's first full season opened on the local 1930 Art Deco movie theatre, the project -- Pat Crow, Woodward Development Corporation on Saturday, September 22, 2012. SKyPAC consists now has morphed into new construction and is on 5. “The conference was fantastic! I look forward to more involvement with this organization.” target for opening in five to seven years. of an 1,800-seat main performance hall, a 200-seat -- Lee Bolton, flexible Studio Theatre, two rehearsal halls, galleries, Ryan Woroneicki is Vice President of Strategic and an 800-seat outdoor amphitheater. Education Partnerships at DonorSearch. Ryan If you own, operate or are otherwise involved with a historic theatre, LHAT conferences are is a primary focus for SKyPAC, taking artists into has five years of experience assisting classrooms and tailoring major performing arts events must attend events. In addition to networking with peers from around North America, par- hundreds of nonprofits with their research efforts to ticipants attend engaging educational sessions that provide practical and pertinent insights for daytime programming.SKyPAC recently assumed identify the best prospects for capital campaigns, operations responsibility for Bowling Green's beloved major gifts, planned gifts, and annual fund led by the leaders in the field of historic theatre restoration, renovation and maintenance, as Capitol Theater on Fountain Square, an historic campaigns. He is currently Secretary of the APRA-MD well as theatre operations and fundraising. theater renovated in 1981 and located at 416 East Membership Committee and Giving Institute Kickball For more information or to register for a conference, Main Street. The Capitol has an 800-seat auditorium champion. and the Houchens Gallery. Tom is a contributor to the please go on-line to www.lhat.org LHAT-CHAT and has led numerous historic theaters, Joseph Yoshitomi recently joined TheaterMania as including: /historic Vice President of Marketing Strategy, bringing 15 years Opera House in Detroit, MI (opened as the Capitol of arts administration experience to the newly created Theater in 1922); in Joliet, IL position. He most recently served as Director of (1926); Pantages Center for the Performing Arts in Marketing & Communications for Geffen Playhouse in Tacoma, WA (1924); and Capitol Theatre in Yakima, Los Angeles where he oversaw marketing during that WA (1902). not-for-profit theater’s largest artistic programming ORCHESTRA and earned-revenue expansion since its founding D E S I G N S T U D I O Barbara Twist is the Managing Director of the Art 20 years ago. In addition to his over six years at that House Convergence, an organization for community- organization, Yoshitomi has consulted for symphony, based, mission-driven cinema exhibitors and is touring productions, and presenting venue clients. involved with Special Programs for the Michigan He is a speaker at national conferences such as INTIX Theater, a restored movie palace in Ann Arbor, and those organized by Americans for the Arts and Michigan. She comes from a family of theatrical Theatre Communications Group. His marketing and exhibitors with her great-great grandfather’s communications methods have been reported as company, Butterfield Theatres, which owned and innovations in the , , operated many historic movie palaces (and later Washington Post and American Theatre Magazine. contemporary theaters) throughout Michigan into He serves on the board of LA STAGE Alliance, has the early 1980s. In addition to her work in the cinema independently produced theater, and began his exhibition field, she is a filmmaker, working on both career as a Los Angeles County/J. Paul Getty Arts narrative feature-length films and short experimental Administration Intern at The Pasadena Playhouse. films. He lives in Culver City, CA with his wife Missy and two Kristin W. Untiedt-Barnett has worked in non-profit daughters Adelaide and Louisa. management for the past 8 years. Previously an educator, she holds a BS in Communications from James Madison University and a MS in Theatre from Texas A&M University - Commerce. She has served as Executive Director for The Lincoln Theatre since 2013. A native of Marion, Virginia, Kristin's passion for

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