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OVATION JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2019 Florida Blue Is Committed to Helping the People and the Businesses in Our Community Achieve Better Health OVATION JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2019 Florida Blue is committed to helping the people and the businesses in our community achieve better health. That’s My Kind of Blue. 877-352-5830 | floridablue.com Florida Blue is a trade name of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc., an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. 96339 0619 96339 0619_FBLPN Florida Theatre ad5x3_875.indd 1 6/5/19 12:05 PM UP TO 60% OFF DEPARTMENT STORE PRICES EVERY DAY Roosevelt | Mandarin | Lakewood Beaches | Harbour Village | Baymeadows 1-888-SteinMart LET’S CONNECT & SHOP SteinMart.com DATE: THURSDAY 5:30PM - 8:30PM LIMITED VIP ACCESS $100 08.22.19 @ the Florida Theatre GENERAL $50 Join us at the Florida Theatre for a fun, casual evening featuring locally sourced blues music, craft beer and BBQ! Admission gives you unlimited access to an assortment of the city’s best BBQ including pulled pork, smoked turkey, brisket, chicken, sliders, sausage and all the fixins provided by: Paired with the classic BBQ selections will be unlimited local craft beer. Sample from these breweries: New this year! Special bourbon tasting hosted by Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits. The Snacks Blues Band and Beale Street Band will be providing the blues throughout the night. Silent Auction including autographed memorabilia, theme park tickets, gift certificates and more! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! Brews Sponsors Blues Sponsor Preferred Production Partner WELCOME LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends and Patrons, In its June, 2019 issue, VenuesNow, a global trade publication covering live entertainment venues, named the Florida Theatre the #1 Top Stop in the State of Florida for 2018-2019, for venues up to 2,000 capacity. The ranking was determined by tickets sold to concerts and events between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019. Attendance at over 99 Florida Theatre shows during the 2018-2019 reporting period was 115,910. The next nearest competitor in the same category was Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, which had attendance of 72,849 at 92 shows. Two other Jacksonville venues made the VenuesNow Top Stop list. Daily’s Place Amphitheatre, with a capacity of 5,500, was #1 in the 5,001-10,000 capacity category, with attendance of 105,324. VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, with capacity of 15,000, was #1 in the 15,001-30,000 capacity category, with attendance of 87,769. Two other First Coast venues made the VenuesNow Top Stop list. Ponte Vedra Concert Hall was #5 in the 2,000 or less category, with attendance of 31,660, and TIAA Bank Field was #4 in the more than 30,000 capacity category, with attendance of 40,003. Even though the Florida Theatre’s capacity is significantly smaller, its attendance still bested attendance at all other Jacksonville venues of any size. Northeast Florida is clearly a hotbed of concerts and cultural events, and the Florida Theatre is pleased to be at the center of the action. What’s on our stage is what really brings people downtown, and we appreciate that you, the audience, have responded to those artists. We work hard and purposefully every year to bring shows and artists from around the world to Jacksonville, and to bring a diverse roster of shows and artists that reach all corners of our community. Thank you for continuing to embrace and support that effort. 4 | FLORIDATHEATRE.COM | BOX OFFICE: 904.355.2787 architecture ◆ engineering ◆ construction Inspired. 1,355 architects, engineers, constructors and administrative professionals. 20 offices across the US, Latin America and Asia. $1B annually for local and global clients in commercial, industrial, federal and infrastructure markets. HEADQUARTERED IN JACKSONVILLE, FL SINCE 1965. Creating Things That Matter. www.haskell.com HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA THEATRE When the Florida Theatre originally Live performances have always been a opened to the public on April 8, 1927, it hallmark of the Theatre’s schedule, and was downtown Jacksonville’s fifteenth, one of the most memorable occurred in and largest, theatre. Today, it is the last 1956, when Elvis Presley came to the Florida remaining historic theatre on the north Theatre. Presley, the City of Jacksonville, bank of downtown, listed on the National and the Florida Theatre found themselves Register of Historic Places, and the city’s subjects of a LIFE magazine feature when last remaining example of 1920s fantasy Juvenile Court Judge Marion Gooding sat architecture. through the performance to ensure that Presley’s body movements would not The elaborate interior was designed by R.E. become too suggestive. Hall of New York and Jacksonville architect Roy Benjamin. Their design displays many By the late 1970s, however, the Theatre characteristics of the Mediterranean was only marginally profitable. By May 8, Revival, one of the most prominent 1980, when the building closed, martial arts architectural styles associated with movies were the bulk of the schedule. In Florida’s building boom of the 1920s. The 1981, with financial support from the State architects envisioned a Moorish courtyard of Florida, the City of Jacksonville, and at night, resplendent with glittering stars, the private sector, the Arts Assembly of grand balconies, and fountains. The ornate Jacksonville (now the Cultural Council of proscenium arch that frames the stage Greater Jacksonville) acquired the Theatre reaches nearly six stories high, dominating to preserve it for cultural uses. A $4.1 million the auditorium and contributing to the capital campaign resulted in the building’s venue’s excellent acoustics. An open-air roof restoration and renovation. The 1,900-seat garden in the 1920s provided a venue for Theatre reopened on October 1, 1983, with dancing under the stars, and a nursery was a Gala Variety Show featuring Some Like It available for patrons’ young children. The Cole, a Cole Porter review; the Symphony building’s then-modern features included String Quartet; and Grammy Award winning central heating, central air-conditioning and fiddle player Vassar Clements, who closed a central vacuuming system. the evening with “Orange Blossom Special.” Like many theatres of its day, the Florida On October 1, 1987, the City of Jacksonville Theatre was designed for both stage acquired the building. The Florida Theatre shows and motion pictures and a typical Performing Arts Center, Inc. was founded as program included six elements: a news reel, a nonprofit corporation to manage, program, a comedy short, a cartoon or travelogue, and preserve the building. Thousands of an overture by the band on a moveable performances and millions of audience orchestra pit (still in use today), a live stage members later, the Florida Theatre is still, presentation, and the feature film. 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