Utica NY June 25, 2009
 

I haven't posted anything here in a few years, but I had to come out of "retirement" to say this: Gord's coming to my home town!!!!

The Stanley Center for the Arts in downtown Utica is one of the most drop-dead gorgeous theaters in existence. It was built in 1927 and received a $20 million dollar renovation completed in 2008. It includes a 6,500 pound Tiffany style chandelier-- the world's largest chandelier hanging from a single fixture.

If you want to experience a Gordon Lightfoot concert in the most beautiful interior this side of Heaven and the Canadian border, don't miss the Utica concert!!

Re: Utica NY June 25, 2009
 

It looks beautiful..enjoy the concert!
http://www.stanleytheatre.net/about/...ent/photos.php

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Proceeds from the concert at the Stanley will benefit cardiac research at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory here in Utica. Among other things, the Laboratory is now one of a handful of world centers capable of determining the genetic basis of cardiac arrhythmias responsible for sudden cardiac arrest in young adults, children and infants. http://www.mmrl.edu/lightfoot.asp has links and info about the concert and the Laboratory.

Does Gord do a lot of benefits like this?

Re: Utica NY June 25, 2009
 

Wow! That looks like some theater!

We have a really pretty one down here in NJ - the Count BAise in Red Bank, but it doesn't have a staircase like that.

July 28th in Morristown? Wrong day! I'm booked....

Re: Utica NY June 25, 2009
 

yeah, quite something....look at that architectural detail


...knock yourself out :) :

http://www.lightfoot.ca/benefits.htm

Re: Utica NY June 25, 2009
 

Welcome back Brian57! The Stanley theater looks like a very pretty venue.I have tickets to go see Gordy at Chautauqua Institution in July(come on,July!).Its sort of a plain jane ampitheater,if I remember right.But its sufficient for concerts.I'll try to get some pics and post them after the show.
patybear

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The story I've heard is that the staircase is modeled after the grand staircase on the Titanic. (much dryer, though)

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Actually, I have had the Binghamton concert on my site for months. Still waiting for the d--n thing to go on sale, as it's the weekend before the Saratoga race meet, so I will be back East in time to go to it.

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nice but i think they went overboard on those spindles

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She opened in 1928-- a year before the stock market crash and the beginning of the depression-- overboard was the norm! It was dawn just before the darkest.

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i hear you...was just a distasteful pun, strike it from the record