Various communities of the state proposed musical programs and almost of the performances were in the Auditorium. When the proscenium was raised, increasing the seating capacity to 12,000, the stage and backstage area became large enough to pretend circuses and rodeos.įor several years in the 1920s and 1930s, Music Week was an annual event in Denver. When the proscenium was in place, the building was a 3,326-seat theatre with an extraordinarily large backstage area. The proscenium of the original building was designed to be portable so as to make different-sized spaces for different events. Originally, the building was a multi-purpose structure: it accommodated concerts, operas, theatrical shows, conventions, basketball, auto shows together with even circuses, with flags flying from its domes and light bulbs outlining its pediments, cornice, and corners. Speer in addition to the Chamber of Commerce raised $100,000 to celebrate the July 7 grand opening of the Auditorium with Denver's first national political convention, when William Jennings Bryan was nominated to run for President for the third time. The Municipal Auditorium, the largest in America except for Madison Square Garden in New York, was completed in time to host the Democratic National Convention in 1908. a Caulkins nature pledged $7 million towards the upgrade of the lyric opera companies in addition to adjacent public spaces which were constructed inside of the Newton Auditorium. The Ellie Caulkins Opera combine is located in Denver, Colorado as element of the large Denver Performing Arts Complex.
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