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Meany Hall for the Performing Arts

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28: 71: 46:. The current Meany Hall is considered one of the region's premier performance facilities, highly acclaimed by artists and audience members alike for its outstanding acoustics and intimate ambiance. Individual performance venues include the 1,206-seat proscenium Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater, and the 238-seat Meany Studio Theatre. 146:
It was not until 1974 that a new performing arts hall, costing $ 7,123,000, was built southeast of the former entrance. The architects for the new building were Kirk, Wallace, McKinley & Associates. In stark contrast to the Neo-classic façade of the old building, the new Meany Hall was built in
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student newspaper started an editorial campaign in 1909 to rename Auditorium Hall to Meany Hall, going so far as referring to the hall as "Meany Hall" in the news columns. The Board of Regents resisted the name because no other campus building had been named for a living person. Meany himself wanted
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Meany Hall hosts international performers through Meany Center for the Performing Arts, as well as performers from the School of Drama, School of Music, Dance Program, and the Center for Digital Arts & Experimental Media. The lobby of Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater is adorned with the artwork
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In 1958, a $ 75,000 renovation improved the lighting and sound of the interior of Meany. The Daily reported that the interior of Meany, newly painted salmon pink, was "no longer staid and Victorian - it is almost futuristic with soft red-and-gray seats and ... salt-shaker lights suspended like
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on April 29 rendered Meany Hall unsafe for occupation and it was condemned. Its demolition provided more opportunities for campus planners to open up space in the Central Plaza area, now known informally as
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mobiles from the roof." The 1958 renovation also included structural reinforcements, although engineers predicted that the Hall would eventually have to be brought down. Only seven years later in 1965, an
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in 1867. On May 1, 1914, the regents relented and the hall was officially renamed at a ceremony held to mark Edmond Meany and his wife's 25th wedding anniversary.
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was housed in Meany Hall's basement. It was relocated following objections from the city fire marshal about lack of fire escapes and fire extinguishers.
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The original building, known now as "Old" Meany Hall, was situated between Memorial Way and 15th Avenue, directly across from
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In 1995, the Allen Center for the Visual Arts, a southern extension to the
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University and college arts centers in the United States
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Meany Hall

University of Washington
Seattle
Dale Chihuly
Jacob Lawrence
Robert Rauschenberg

Suzzallo Library
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Howard & Galloway
Edmond S. Meany
The Daily
William H. Seward
U.S. Secretary of State
bought
Alaska
Russia
University Book Store
earthquake in Seattle
Red Square
Odegaard Undergraduate Library
Henry Art Gallery
Meany Hall website
Sony Pictures Studios
Jeopardy! College Championship
Pauley Pavilion
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