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Mjtheaterpub Shorter.Pdf CONTENTS 4 Message from Mayor C. Ray Nagin 26 Choreographing a Comeback The New Orleans Ballet Association 7 Debut of an Icon A performing arts theater rooted in modern 28 A Home at Last style opened in 1973. The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra 11 The Return 30 Not Just the Classics Following a monumental flood, the road Gospel, jazz, blues and more in the theater back was anything but smooth. 32 The Opening Productions 14 Theater at a Glance Details of performances presented by Features of the renovation • The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra • The New Orleans Ballet Association 16 Honoring a World-Class Performer • The New Orleans Opera Association The spiritual purity and power of Mahalia Jackson 20 A Stage Named Domingo An enduring tribute to the world’s greatest tenor 22 A Grand Re-opening Schedule of Performances and Events 24 The Return of Grand Opera ON THE COVER: The theater during The New Orleans Opera Association an evening event in March 1980. PHOTOGRAPHED BY: Mitchel Osborne 2 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS JANUARY 2009 Message from Mayor C. Ray Nagin January 2009 Dear Fellow Arts Patrons: The events of late August 2005 presented unprecedented challenges to the City of New Orleans. We have worked diligently to rebuild our city from the greatest natural and manmade disaster any city has ever faced. As we have struggled to repair and rebuild damaged portions of our city, we never doubted the importance of restoring our performing arts capabilities as well. Maintaining local venues that can host music, dance and theater, in all their various forms, is vital to the preservation of our creative culture and our performing arts legacy. New Orleans is rich in performance talent, and some of our largest performance facilities suffered great damage from Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed. We are working to restore these vital components of our city, and we have made an outstanding start by reopening The Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. This theater and the surrounding, historic Armstrong Park hold great significance for many of our citizens. Some of the most memorable events and performances of modern history have occurred here. The theater has hosted locally and nationally renowned performers, including major jazz, blues and modern dance celebrities, and it has provided a home for vitally important classical performance organizations such as the New Orleans Opera and New Orleans Ballet. In restoring this theater, we have also improved upon its structure so that it offers state-of-the-art capabilities for a wide range of performing arts. Once again, it will become a home base for the opera, the ballet, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, along with other performance groups who soon will discover the technical beauties of the restored facility. We welcome the renewal and return of this beautiful performing arts theater, and once again we pay tribute to Mahalia Jackson, a great lady who, both as an individual and a performer, represented New Orleans beautifully to the rest of the world. Sincerely, C. Ray Nagin Mayor 4 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS JANUARY 2009 Coming Home The performing arts return to Mahalia Jackson Theatre Produced in association with OnStage. A Publication of Renaissance Publishing, LLC JANUARY 2009 EDITOR Kathy Finn CONTRIBUTOR WRITER Judi Russell ART DIRECTOR Tiffani Reding EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR OF SALES Kelley Faucheux ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Aimee Arceneaux PRODUCTION DESIGNERS Staci Woodward, Erin Theriot CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Todd Matherne EDITOR IN CHIEF Errol Laborde EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Kristi Ferrante SALES ASSISTANT Andrea Corne NEWSSTAND MANAGER Christian Coombs CIRCULATION MANAGER Gretchen Kimble 110 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Ste. 123 Metairie, LA 70005 (504) 828-1380 Fax (504) 828-1385 © 2009 Renaissance Publishing. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the consent of the publisher. The trademark Renaissance Publishing is registered. Renaissance Publishing is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photos and artwork even if accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. The opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the magazine’s managers or owners. JANUARY 2009 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 5 The Debut The curtain first rose in 1973 pproving smiles and delighted chatter abounded on that night A36 years ago when citizens of New Orleans first got a close look at their new performing arts theater. It was Jan. 9, 1973. Mayor Moon Landrieu was out of town at the time, but a cadre of city officials attended the grand opening of the New Orleans Theatre for the Performing Arts in his stead. His predecessor, Vic Schiro, during whose administration the plan for the theater was hatched, was on hand, as were Muriel Bultman Francis and T.G. Solomon, both of whom helped pave the way for the theater to be built. MITCHEL OSBORNE PHOTOGRAPHS JANUARY 2009 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 7 Aerial view of Armstrong Park, September 1981 Mayor Dutch Conductor Werner Torkanowsky that night led what was Morial with then the New Orleans Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in Mrs. Louis Armstrong a performance of Verdi’s “Requiem Mass.” The program and Lionel featured vocal performances by New Orleans native and Hampton in famed New York City Opera bass Norman Treigle, along April, 1980 with soprano Johanna Meier, mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff and tenor Nicholas di Virgilio. From the time the guests glimpsed the sparkling $30,000 chandelier in the lobby to the moment the final applause ended, the evening was a grand success, according to newspaper accounts of the event. New Orleans finally had a sophisticated, professional performing arts theater. Count Basie performs for the opening ceremonies of Armstrong Park, April 1980. 8 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS JANUARY 2009 The building’s spectacle. A three-story architect, William E. wall of glass across the Bergman, and project front allowed for a engineer Charles H. view of the entire Nettles both attended red-and-tan lobby the opening. They were and its magnificent no doubt proud — and Venetian chandelier relieved. Like most from outside the projects of substantial building. The red- size and scope, the carpeted staircases theater did not come to provided a fitting fruition without bumps backdrop for well- along the way. heeled patrons to see Originally designed to and be seen. Inside the seat 3,500 guests, the performance hall, not building plan had to be one of the 2,316 seats scaled down when the had a bad view of lowest bids came in at the stage. almost twice the amount After years of that had been earmarked discussion, planning for construction. The and, finally, construc- cost ultimately totaled tion, New Orleans around $8 million. had a theater that But the architects and could properly contractor delivered on welcome a wide range their promise of a theater of local, national that would present a Intermission during and international a July 1979 event magical nighttime performing artists. The theater served its Lionel Hampton and purpose until Aug. 29, 2005, when Mayor Dutch Morial a disaster no one could have teamed up on stage, 1980. foreseen befell the city. Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flood produced by the failure of local floodwalls devastated the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts. The theater suffered extensive wind and water damage, and its electrical and mechanical systems were destroyed by more than 10 feet of water that remained for weeks on its lowest level. The road back from the tragedy has been a slow one. But more than three years after Katrina, patrons and advocates of the arts in New Orleans finally have reason to celebrate. Visitors can at last stroll across Armstrong Park and up the steps of the Mahalia Jackson Theatre, and find the doors open and the lobby spectacularly lit, as the city’s singular theater for the performing arts comes to life once again. • JANUARY 2009 MAHALIA JACKSON THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 9 TheReturnofanIcon A building’s revival opens doors to new opportunities ark days descended on the They rounded up their scattered performing arts could play in the city’s New Orleans performing arts performers. They hatched contingency recovery. As city administrators grappled Dcommunity in the weeks after plans that allowed them to begin with the cumbersome and frustrating August 29, 2005. As with many other performing again. Local audiences process of qualifying public buildings for aspects of local life during that time, it were thrilled. federal and state recovery assistance, they wasn’t merely difficult to discern light at The quick, though limited, return of kept performing arts venues high on the the end of the tunnel, it was hard to even these performances proved a balm for list of targets. As recovery dollars finally find the tunnel. the city’s anxiety-ridden populace. In the began to flow toward major public With most of the major performing midst of one of the darkest periods in buildings, the return of the Mahalia arts stages seriously damaged and New Orleans’ history, the opportunity to Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts closed indefinitely, the very future of see and hear live performances up close began to appear feasible. the local arts seemed in danger. helped remind local audiences that the “One problem was that some work Performers had fled the city and city’s most important assets were alive. was going on in the theater before scattered. Corporate benefactors Hurricane Katrina, so FEMA initially said suddenly had more pressing problems high priority they weren’t going to pay for damage to address. Arts organizations worried Fortunately, local government also from the flood,” says the city’s deputy about their prospects for survival.
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