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HOUSTON'S ART SCENE? DO PRODUCERS LOVE TO BRING THEIR SHOWS
TO HOUSTON BECAUSE SUCH AND SUCH?
"As Houston has grown over the past decades, so has its performing arts
community, with local productions and traveling shows in all disciplines," reports
Everett Evans, theater critic for the Houston Post. "The crown jewels of the
downtown theater district-the Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony,
Houston Ballet, and the Alley Theater-are regarded as world-class resident
companies with the same high level of sustained national prestige."
The theater district offers so many highbrow performances, in fact, that in two
days I managed to take in four shows-a Broadway musical, symphony performance,
opera, and classic play (darn it, the ballet was in rehearsal). My four-act weekend even
played out with a few show surprises.
ACT ONE: TUTS, TUTS
My entrance to the theater district was on foot down Smith Street from my hotel,
one of a dozen close-in lodgings. In Hermann Square at McKinney Street, I happened
upon the annual Asian American Festival in progress around the reflecting pool at city
hall. Indian dancers flowed across the open stage in colorful costumes, offering a graceful
prelude to my theatrical weekend. In the next block, a minor street drama pulled me into
Tranquility Park. Teenaged skateboarders rattled down heavy metal handrails as fellow
bit players videotaped the action.
At the park's other end, I rushed across Bagby Street into the looming glass lobby
of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Inside the center's 2,650-seat Sarofin Hall,
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Mallory, Randy. [Draft: Stage Magic, or Stage Presence, with annotations], text, 2008-07~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1924106/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.