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PROOF #1
Where history lives
Proctors to use national award won Saturday for marketing purposes
by lauren stanforth Staff writer
Published 01:00 a.m., Monday, July 20, 2009
  
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SCHENECTADY — Proctors will use a national award it won Saturday to market itself as one of the top historic theaters in America.

The Outstanding Historic Theatre Award was presented to Proctors CEO Philip Morris at the League of Historic American Theatre's annual conference in Cleveland.

The award was given to Proctors because of the quality of the 83-year-old theater's restoration, its depth of community service and breadth of programming.

Morris said there's no money with the award, but Proctors will be using the designation to promote itself.

"It's pretty prestigious," Morris said Sunday. "We're going to lean on it and say we're the award-winning theatre, I'll tell you that."

Representatives of the Stanley Theatre in Utica nominated Proctors for this year's award; Proctors had letters of support from various people, including U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko and Mayor Brian U. Stratton.

The Baltimore-based League of Historic American Theatres is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the rescue, rehabilitation and operation of historic theatres in North America. Past winners include the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Newberry Opera House in South Carolina and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vt.

Proctors, which hosts touring Broadway productions as well as other comedic and musical acts, began as a vaudeville house in 1926. A group of concerned citizens purchased the theater in 1979 from the city of Schenectady for $1 because the structure faced demolition. In 2007, a $30 million restoration was completed that expanded the main stage and added a second theater, now the GE Theatre, in a former department store next door. Proctors is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been the linchpin in redevelopment of Schenectady's downtown for the last five years.

Proctors will host the national conference of the League of Historic American Theatres in 2011



Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Where-history-lives-547744.php#ixzz1hsWhel6e

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Proctor's Theatre is a former vaudeville house located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Many famous artists have performed there, notably Mariah Carey (whose 1993 top-rated Thanksgiving special was taped there),  Britney Spears, Hal Holbrook, Ted Wiles, and George Burns, as well as many others. It has one of the largest movie screens in the Northeast.
The theatre was opened on December 27, 1926.  It was designed by architect Thomas Lamb. Four years later it hosted the first public demonstration of television. In 1979 it was added to theNational Registr of Historic Places, shortly before being renovated after a long period of decline and neglect. A more recent renovation has added two other stages.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Personally, I believe that private AND public monies should be used to support the arts in America.  The arts have very rarely "made a profit" through out history --- heck .. even Mr. Shakespeare's Globe Theater lost money ...  but the world is a whole helluva a lot better for the fact that someone chose to underwrite Mr. Shakespeare -----------------  same with Proctor's and SPAC and many other museums and theaters and arts programs ... they are worth EVERY PENNY of private and public money invested.   In fact,  I think they deserve MORE private and public funding .. not less.

Oh .. and if you think it will bother me or change my mind if you respond with your usual personal attacks and threats against me ..  save yourself the trouble and stick your insults and threats up your arses

Quoted from TakingItBack

Who cares.  Its not making any money.   Doing worse since Proctors and Metroplex got involved.  DVR, can you prove me wrong on that. Keeps getting robbed.  Nominated by a theater in Utica.  Whoopee.

Quoted from Smoking Bananas

what does morris make? do u even know?

Quoted from benny salami

Smoking Shlock's only interest is in keeping his freebies coming in. For those horrible opera movies that you have to pay people to attend. If he read a real paper the Times Union he would know about Fat Morris $200,000 a year salary.

Quoted from Shadow

Want more money for Proctors just cut  Morris's bloated salary.