Description:
BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN, NEXT MOVE THEATRE, OTHER STORES, BOYLSTON PLACE
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/11/1983
1 - 8 of 8
Description:
Dressing room of Boston Ballet. Young dancers prepare for dress rehearsal of Nutcracker. Put on costumes, makeup, place hair in buns, practice steps. Male solo, then duet on stage. Then ensemble dances and curtain closes. Dancers and others linger backstage. Principal ballerina says it is very crowded backstage because of scenery and difficult to make quick entrances and exits.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/04/1979
Description:
Boston Music Hall, Theatre District.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/20/1979
Description:
Durgin Park restaurant next to Faneuil Hall. People wait in line for seats. Steam table. Plate of corn bread. Waitresses in white uniforms. Families crowded at tables with red and white checkered cloths. Fish plates with corn. Big roast beef meal. Boston baked beans sign. More signs for fresh strawberries, swordfish, oysters. “Specialty of the house - prime rib $9.” “Lobster platter $7.50.” Menu with prices. Interview with notorious waitress Dotti “the witch.” Pressed tin ceiling. Flapping banner outside. View from window onto Quincy Market. Interview with owner about differences with BRA and developer James Rouse over desire to keep Durgin Park as a pristine Boston institution amidst neighboring commercial revitalization.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/21/1978
Description:
Grand lobby, interior of Music Hall. Ornate chandelier, marble columns, heavenly mural. Gilded architectural details — carved moldings, capitals, medallions, angels. Interview with Harry Lodge, who gives history of Music Hall (formerly Metropolitan Theater), originally designed in 1920s by Clarence Blackhall for Vaudeville and movies. Describes the proposed restoration program to be completed in fall 1980 if lease secured and funds raised. In order to bring the Metropolitan Opera to Boston, the theater needs deeper stage for performing arts, updated communication systems, ventilation systems, and a renovated auditorium (seats 4,300). The theater is used for ballet, concerts, movies. Lodge states that this renovation with revitalize Boston as a major center for the performing arts. Lodge shows a drawing of the proposed plan.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/21/1977
Description:
Waterfront environs. Exterior of the New England Aquarium. Harbor seals.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/24/1977
Description:
Fair to raise money for Opera Company of Boston sponsored and broadcast by WCRB. Interview with young children who say they like opera. Male vocalist with piano accompaniment performs in lobby of Opera House. Sarah Caldwell talks about restoring theater with deeper stage, better acoustics, new seats for $6 million.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/19/1979
Description:
Man gives scholarly history of theater architecture in Boston, commenting on Boston's Theater District - Saxon (Majestic), Colonial, Wilbur, Tremont, Music Hall (Metropolitan). Includes interior details of Saxon - red velvet curtains and rails; gilded rococo balconies; relief of fruit, flowers, leaves, masks, angels.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/17/1977
