When the Palace theater reopens as the College Street Music Hall this May, some familiar names will be on the marquee, and on the stage.
The one-time Vaudeville and movie theater, on College Street across from the Shubert, is reopening after 12 years. Click here to read about that (and here to read about how it almost didn’t happen).
Manic Productions and Premier Concerts, the hall’s promoters, have announced acts booked for three of the first nine nights:
• The Machine performing Pink Floyd (with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra) on May 1.
• Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt for an acoustic double bill on May 2.
• Polaris & Mates of State on May 9.
Details can be found here.
Did I miss that the City had decided to forget the problem of handling material for construction and removal of sets and supplies and/or emergency egress without undue interference with traffic on College or Crown streets?
That seemed important a couple of weeks ago, if they were to use a different solution rather than the Yale easement originally requested.
Has that problem really been settled or merely ignored so that the supporters can really commit to a May 1 opening?
Is there no problem calling the place the Palace, or did the rights to that name get transferred, or legally lost when the Palace Theater on Church Street was
destroyed many years ago during redevelopment?
I won't be a regular customer when and if it actually opens, but would like to go at least once to see the new version of the old "Roger Sherman" which was the biggest theater in the region in my early years.
Never heard of the openers The Machine, or Lovett or Hiatt, apparently big draws who look even older and more decrepit than I, but they will eventually book someone I'll pay to see..