Liza Minnelli

Kan Tex Cali Sep 03, 2022

The Music Hall at Fair Park (originally the Fair Park Auditorium, until renamed in 1957), is a performing arts theater in Dallas, Texas's “Fair Park”. The music call was originally opened October 10, 1925.

Fair Park, the most visited attraction in Texas, is home to 5 museums (Including the Hall of State, the African-American Museum and the Children’s Aquarium of Fair Park) and 10 performance and sporting venues that include the Music Hall, Dos Equis Pavilion, the Band Shell, Texas Discovery Gardens and the famed Cotton Bowl Stadium. Fair Park is a State and National Historic Landmark and has the largest collection of 1930’s Art Deco exposition-style architecture in the United States, located on 277 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. Over 5.3 million people visit Fair Park annually, attending over 1,200 special events, sporting events, concerts, performances and the State Fair of Texas.

The music hall is of Spanish Baroque style with Moorish architectural influences, containing six stair towers capped with cast domes and arcade porches overlooking Fair Park. Air conditioning was added in 1954, and in 1972 the Hall was remodeled again with an expanded lobby and restaurant. In 1999 the theater was refurbished and updated. Because of the spacious nature of the Music Hall, the facility is a nationally recognized venue for Broadway musical touring companies and other large-scale public and private functions. The Music Hall is currently home to the Dallas Summer Musicals and was home to the Dallas Opera from 1957 to 2009 (at which time it moved into the new Winspear Opera House in the Downtown Dallas Arts District).

During the 1936 Texas Centennial Exhibition, celebrating 100 years of Texas statehood, the Music Hall at Fair Park functioned as the exhibition building for GM (General Motors). It was a worldwide exhibition, that drew people from all across Texas as well as around the world.