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The Historic Theater Project
The Morning Show's Historic Theater Project is a series of live broadcasts from historic theaters in the MPR listening area. Hosts Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole, and the rest of the Morning Show team, hit the road to bring The Morning Show into communities throughout the region a few times a year.
This time, join Dale and Jim Ed for a live broadcast from the Hibbing High School Auditorium from 6-9 a.m. on Friday, October 4.
The show will include scripts featuring favorite characters from The Morning Show, as well as musical guests Connie Evingson and The Mary Louise Knutson Trio, the LaPlant Family Trio from Grand Rapids, Hibbing vocal trio Company B, and Hibbing organist Vicki Lundberg Gornick, who'll play the auditorium's 1,900-pipe organ.
The broadcast is free and open to the public, and audience members are free to come and go as their schedules allow.
The Hibbing High Auditorium is the second theater in the Historic Theater Project series. The first historic theater the Morning Show gang visited is the Fargo Theater, where they broadcast a show in April 2002. Listen to the entire show and check out pictures from the event.
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| The Morning Show's Historic Theater Project is sponsored by Abbott Northwestern Hospital and the Minneapolis Heart Institute. |
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About the Hibbing High School Auditorium
The 1,800-seat Hibbing High School Auditorium was designed after the Capitol Theatre in New York City and is lit by cut-glass chandeliers of crystal imported from Belgium (each cost $15,000 in 1920, and today they are insured for $250,000 each). The auditorium boasts a magnificent Barton pipe organ, one of only two still existing in the United States. With over 1,900 pipes, the organ can play any orchestra instrument except the violin. More.
About Hibbing
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Did you know that, from 1919 to 1968, the entire town of Hibbing moved two miles? Famous people from the area include Bob Dylan, Judy Garland, and the founder of Greyhound. More.
For more information about Hibbing, visit the Hibbing Foundation online.
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Tell us about historic theaters
If you have had a memorable experience at the Hibbing High School Auditorium anytime during its colorful history, we'd love to hear about it! In fact, we'd like to hear about any historical theater in the MPR listening area.
Send us your stories—or read submissions from other fans. We'll try to get them online as soon as we can. Include your name and a phone number where we can reach you during the day, and we might be able to get it on the air!
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