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Restoration at Chicago\u2019s Auditorium Theatre reveals pieces of its past <\/p>\n

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Restoration at Chicago\u2019s Auditorium Theatre reveals pieces of its past<\/p>\n

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The historic Auditorium Theatre in Chicago is between productions and undergoing some important restoration work, which in turn has revealed pieces of its storied past. <\/p>\n

CEO Rich Regan and his team are committed to preserving the historic building.<\/p>\n

“We’re in a constant state of restoration,” he said.<\/p>\n

The latest project involves restoring the atrium and stained glass windows, which Regan said they know hasn’t been touched since 1967. <\/p>\n

And the project has provided some unexpected entertainment. When workers removed a section of seats to put up scaffolding, they found what the audience left behind decades \u2014 even centuries \u2014 ago.<\/p>\n

The treasures include a Chicago Herald newspaper from 1889, extremely brittle but still readable, and old programs from shows like Ballet Russe dating back to 1936., when you could buy a Buick for the cost of what is now a monthly car payment. <\/p>\n

There’s even a 57-year-old ballet ticket; a seat to see the New York City Ballet at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 31, 1967. <\/p>\n

“From the imagery to the advertisements, the composer, the show time \u2013 all of those factors really catapult you back in time to that moment,” Regan said.<\/p>\n

Who knows what history might be hiding under every other seat in the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restoration at Chicago\u2019s Auditorium Theatre reveals pieces of its past Restoration at Chicago\u2019s Auditorium Theatre reveals pieces of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,718,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-124914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114984581073475223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}