Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2014/11/13/dr-phillips-center-for-the-performing-arts-ribbon-cutting/" target="_blank"><b>11/13/14: Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Ribbon Cutting</b></a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "For years Orlando has been waiting for a performing arts center to put the city on the level with places such as Los Angeles and New York..." lol
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Orlando has been competing with Los Angeles--among other places--for years. While there is still plenty of room for Orlando to grow, it is making a few good strides.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks like a really nice facility! I especially like how flexible the spaces seem to be, which should let them do some interesting stuff with it; I always enjoyed playing in unusual venues The main theater itself looks really nice too, but were those windows and skylights on the sides? Seems like an odd choice if they want to have matinee or early evening productions
Originally Posted By dshyates There are no windows in the 2 theaters. The Walt Disney Theater is a very nice, state of the art theater.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's good to hear! It must just be some lighting/camera tricks then
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "ORDDU: Orlando has been competing with Los Angeles--among other places--for years." <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city</a> Note that Orlando doesn't even rank on the Global Cities index, while LA ranks #6 between Hong Kong and Chicago. Congrats to Orlando for making strides, but let's be honest, the notion that a new performing arts center puts it somewhere on the same level as NY or LA is absurd.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Did anyone actually say that Orlando was comparable to NY or LA? Or did they, instead, simply say they were trying to build a performing arts center that was comparable to NY and LA? Let's not try to put a false spin on this article to merely satisfy a desire to be 'snarky'...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Yeah, let's be nice here! I mean, I'd hate to think a certain doctor was being so snobby as that. Makes me wonder if he's the type who would knock over somebody's sand castle at a beach just because he could.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Did anyone actually say that Orlando was comparable to NY or LA" No, but the quote from the article in the first post implies that local officials are striving to reach the cultural and economic influence of those cities and ones like them. I just think it's a ridiculous comparison to make.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "ORDDU: Orlando has been competing with Los Angeles--among other places--for years. While there is still plenty of room for Orlando to grow, it is making a few good strides." And I hope they make more. I think a performance art center is great. But Orlando isn't even in the same conversation culturally as L.A. or New York. They're playing catch up to cities like San Diego.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Of course not. But that's like telling someone who's recovering from a long term injury and who strives to be an athlete of some kind that they'll never be in the same league as an Olympic contender. Why be so negative about this article? Are some of you really so jaded and cynical that you can't see the positive side of anything any more???? If so, that's what's really ridiculous to the extreme and it's very sad.
Originally Posted By leemac I wish them all the success in the world but I'm skeptical they will be able to fill a 2,700 seater venue on a regular basis in a city with an average salary hovering around $50k and nearly a quarter of employees in the hospitality sector. That is a tough crowd to attract from a city of 2m. I gather Book of Mormon is struggling to sell tickets for the venue and stalls tickets are c.$155. I'm just not convinced that dumping $400m into a performing arts venue was what Orlando really needed.
Originally Posted By leemac I should add that something like two-thirds of that money came from the public purse.
Originally Posted By xrayvision YAY..Elder Price finally makes it to Orlando! And, all is right in the world after all...lol. I would love to see Book of Mormon in Orlando.
Originally Posted By xrayvision The whole theater is really beautiful, inside and out, except I don't like the exposed concrete block look in the Walt Disney Theater. Looking from the stage into the seating area, the theater looks really pretty (I love the seating area). But, looking from the seats towards the stage, the exposed concrete bricks (whether it's real or a facade) looks unfinished and ugly to me. I know...different strokes for different folks..to each it's own...beauty is in the eye of the beholder..don't like it, don't go there... The Walt Theater thinks xray is fugly too..lol.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Since the public donated so much of its own money to this cause, let's hope it's worth it for them. Time will certainly tell.
