Bushnell Memorial Theatre
166 Capitol Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06106
166 Capitol Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06106
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Architects: Harvey Wiley Corbett, Wallace Kirkman Harrison
Firms: Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray
Functions: Concerts, Live Theatre, Performing Arts
Styles: Art Deco
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
860.987.5900
Manager:
860.987.6000
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The Bushnell Memorial Theatres opened January 13, 1930. Although primarily a venue for concerts, opera, ballet, and touring Broadway productions, it has also been used over the decades as a motion-picture theatre. In 1937 Frank Capra’s “Lost Horizon” received its premiere here followed by a regular run in the same house. Other films were shown here, much in the same way they were shown at Symphony Hall in Boston. A feature of the auditorium is its ceiling, a huge (largest in the USA) painted mural named ‘Drama’ which is the work of artist Barry Faulkner. The Bushnell Memorial Theatre is equipped with an Austin 4 manual theatre organ which has 112 speaking stops and 8,000 pipes.
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Gerald DeLuca
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The Art Deco style Bushnell Memorial Theatre opened on January 13, 1930, and was designed by the New York architectural firm of Corbett, Harrison, & MacMurray, one of the three associated firms that designed Rockefeller Center (Harvey Wiley Corbett and Wallace Kirkman Harrison. I’ve been unable to find MacMurray’s given names.)