Holy Moly! The World's Fair Site in Queens is being renovated & will have a Cabaret Theatre!

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/17/04 at 3:03pm

This is incredibly exciting news for me. Here's a brief quote. Click on the link for more.

"At the same time, the Queens Theater in the Park — which produces performances geared to the borough's immigrant communities — is planning to build an 8,000-square-foot addition to its space, a small section of the pavilion that was called the Theaterama during the World's Fair. That section has been maintained while the rest of the pavilion, including the huge "Tent of Tomorrow" and cluster of round observation towers, continues to fall apart.

The addition will consist of a 75-seat cabaret and a new entry hall with an inverted-dome ceiling, a shape that one of its architects, Sara Caples of Caples Jefferson, said would recall the "va-voom architecture" of Johnson's pavilion. The city has allocated $5.2 million for the addition and hopes to break ground this fall, the cultural affairs commissioner, Kate D. Levin, said. The opening is planned for late next year.

When completed, Ms. Caples said, the new entry hall will join the original Theaterama, the observation towers, and the tent to be 'a fourth geometric figure in this wonderful composition of Philip Johnson's.'"

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