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| name = Ahmanson Theatre | image = AhmansonTheatre.JPG | image_caption = Ahmanson Theatre | nickname = | location = 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California | coordinates = {{coord|34|3|29|N|118|14|50|W}} | type = Indoor Theatre | broke_ground = March 9, 1962 | built = 1962–1967 | opened = April 12, 1967 | renovated = January 25, 1995 | expanded = | closed = | demolished = | owner = Los Angeles Music Center | former_names = | seating_type = Reserved | seating_capacity = 2,084 | publictransit = {{LACMTA link logo}} {{LACMTA icon strip|Red}} {{LACMTA icon strip|Purple}} Civic Center/ Grand Park | website = Official Website }} The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that comprise the Los Angeles Music Center. HistoryThe theatre was built as a result of a donation from Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr, the founder of H.F. Ahmanson & Co., an insurance and savings and loans company. It was named for his second wife, businesswoman and philanthropist Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson.[1] Construction began on March 9, 1962. The theatre's inaugural event was held on April 12, 1967, with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association sponsoring the national cast production of Man of La Mancha, starring Richard Kiley and Joan Diener.[2] The theatre also was the U.S. premiere of More Stately Mansions starring Ingrid Bergman, Arthur Hill, and Colleen Dewhurst, which opened September 12 of that same year.[3] Since then, it has presented a wide variety of dramas, musicals, comedies and revivals of the classics, including six world premieres of Neil Simon plays and works by Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, A.R. Gurney, Terrence McNally, John Guare and Edward Albee. The Ahmanson also has served in the capacity of co-producer for a number of Broadway productions, including Amadeus, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Most Happy Fella, and The Drowsy Chaperone. It was also home to the Los Angeles production of The Phantom of the Opera which ran at the theater from 1989 to 1993. It opened with the original London and Broadway Phantom Michael Crawford as the Phantom. He was later replaced with actor Robert Guillaume , Then finally Davis Gaines. The Ahmanson has the largest theatrical season-ticket subscription base on the West Coast. Its year-round season begins in early fall and lasts through late summer. 1990s renovationThroughout 1994, a major $17 million renovation moved the mezzanine and balcony closer to the stage, reduced the width of the auditorium, lowered the ceiling and significantly improved the acoustics, which had long been criticized since the theater's opening. It also allowed the theatre's seating capacity to be reconfigured from 1,600 seats for an intimate play to 2,084 for a major Broadway-sized musical.[4] Designed by Ellerbe Beckett Architects and constructed by Robert F. Mahoney & Associates, the renovation took eighteen months to complete. During this time, the Ahmanson's season-ticket subscriptions were presented at the UCLA James A. Doolittle Theatre in Hollywood. The Ahmanson reopened on January 25, 1995, with an {{Frac|8|1|2}}-month-long run of Miss Saigon. World premieresThe Ahmanson served as the world premiere venue for the following plays and musicals:
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References1. ^David Wise, Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, p. 38 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-Izv2WDDa7EC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=caroline+ahmanson&source=bl&ots=RjirUQSzcb&sig=8Azt0cNkg4R3cULlEx1k7Aif45Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oOMuVODCHISF8QWcyoHwCQ&ved=0CG8Q6AEwDw#v=onepage&q=caroline%20ahmanson&f=false] 2. ^{{cite web | title =More Stately Mansions | url =http://www.eoneill.com/artifacts/MSM1.htm| accessdate = March 7, 2017 }} 3. ^{{cite web | title =The Ahmanson All-Star Stage | url =http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-06/entertainment/ca-45774_1_neil-simon| accessdate = March 7, 2017 }} 4. ^{{cite web | title =Ahmanson Theatre Renovation, Los Angeles, California | url =http://www.rfma.com/experience/ahmanson.html|publisher=Robert F. Mahoney & Associates|place= Boulder, Colorado| accessdate = June 20, 2012 }} External links 7 : Theatres in Los Angeles|Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles|Bunker Hill, Los Angeles|Civic Center, Los Angeles|Theatres completed in 1967|1960s architecture in the United States|Welton Becket buildings |
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