Civic Center Music Hall, Concert hall in Oklahoma City, United States.
Civic Center Music Hall is a performing arts center in downtown Oklahoma City, built in 1937 as the Municipal Auditorium and renamed in 1966. Its six-story building mixes neoclassical and Art Deco features, and the 2001 renovation added a multi-story atrium, balconies, box seats and suites, plus a hydraulic orchestra pit. It contains the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre, the Freede Little Theatre, CitySpace, the Meinders Hall of Mirrors and the Joel Levine Rehearsal Hall.
The hall opened on October 4, 1937, at a time when large public investments in the arts were rare due to the Great Depression. It has gone through several renovation phases since then, each aimed at updating its technical facilities without altering its original design.
The hall is the home of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the Oklahoma City Ballet, which together shape much of the annual program. Broadway touring productions also stop here regularly, making it the main stage for the city's performing arts season.
The hall sits in the heart of downtown Oklahoma City and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets and parking areas. Wheelchair-accessible seating and facilities are available throughout the building for visitors with mobility needs.
The hall was partly funded through a New Deal federal program, which made public cultural buildings possible during the Depression years. This makes it one of the few surviving examples of that era of government arts investment still in active use in Oklahoma.
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