Dallas discovered during the 1960s that it wasn’t big enough for two professional football teams. Half a century later, the question is being asked about the presenters of Broadway shows.
On one side is the 70-year-old Dallas Summer Musicals, which operates at stately Fair Park Music Hall. On the other is the 5-month-old AT&T Performing Arts Center, which hosts the Lexus Broadway Series at the shimmering Winspear Opera House.
The two are competing for the same entertainment dollar in the toughest economy in decades.
Dallas Summer Musicals lost a bid to become a member tenant of the AT&T complex in 2008. That launched a high-stakes rivalry that stresses the two nonprofit titans but gives theatergoers reason to celebrate.
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Troubled Arts of Collin County Project Seeks a New Name
Posted on April 8th, 2011 4:50pm by Jason Heid
Filed under Arts, Business, Local Government, Local News
Nothing like a rebranding to cure what ails you. The public project to build a performing arts center in Collin County has had troubles from the start, when what was supposed to be a four-city project became a three-city project after McKinney voters refused to approve $19 million in bond funding that Allen, Plano, and Frisco had each all signed off on.
It still looked like they’d be able to make it happen, but then the economic doldrums struck the area. They were going to have to work some magic to keep it going. It’s largely been stuck in limbo, and now Frisco might bail.
So what better time to find a new name to signify your project’s bright new future. ACC is conducting a survey.
The new proposed names: Inspiration Arts Park or The Arts Park.
If I may humbly suggest, how about “The Super Terrific Happy Arts Park?”
how about the “lose $2 Million a year art park that we don’t need”