Peabody Auditorium

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Peabody Auditorium
Peabody Auditorium
Address600 Auditorium Blvd
Daytona Beach, Florida
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Coordinates 29°13′38″N81°00′38″W / 29.22735°N 81.01057°W / 29.22735; -81.01057
Capacity 2,521
OpenedOctober 6, 1949
Website
www.peabodyauditorium.org

The Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach, Florida has been home to performances of the Daytona Beach Symphony Society for more than sixty years and was the summer home of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until 2009. [1] The 2,521-seat venue hosts touring Broadway shows, headline performers, opera, drama, and comedy performances. In addition to in-house programming, presenters include civic ballet, schools, cheerleading, bodybuilding and dance competitions, non-profit and for-profit promoters.

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History

A former auditorium in Daytona Beach (on the mainland on south Beach Street, not at its present location), built in 1919, enjoyed appearances by many of the world's most famous performers and orators including Rudolph Nureyev and Sergei Rachmaninoff, but was destroyed by fire in 1946. [2] After considerable planning by the Daytona Beach City Commission and civic donors, the current Peabody Auditorium was constructed at a cost of $750,000 (equivalent to $9.6 million in 2023) and opened to the public on 6 October 1949. [2] It was named Peabody Auditorium in honor of Simon J. Peabody who donated the land and was instrumental in building the former auditorium. [2] Artist Frederick Dana Marsh completed the exterior sculptures of four muses. Until 1952, however, only white persons were permitted to attend events at Peabody Auditorium. [3]

Entertainment

The theatre has a long history of presenting international stars of arts and entertainment including Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett, James Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Seinfeld and David Copperfield. The Peabody has also hosted many Broadway productions including CATS, 42nd Street, Chicago, STOMP, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Riverdance.

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References

  1. "LSO, Bach Fest choir ‘electrifying’ in Daytona", Orlando Sentinel , May 5, 2009. Accessed February 5, 2024. "The featured ensemble, the London Symphony Orchestra, which first came to Daytona Beach in 1966, returned to headline this year's festival."
  2. 1 2 3 Fuller, Austin. "Daytona's Peabody Auditorium celebrates 100 years", The Daytona Beach News-Journal , March 19, 2019. Accessed February 5, 2024. "The original auditorium broke ground in September 1919 on 'a day of days in the history of the town,' The Daytona Morning Journal reported, according to a 1960s article in The News-Journal obtained through the Halifax Historical Museum.... But it isn’t the same place that stands blocks from the Atlantic Ocean today. That $25,000 building — funded with a donation of land and $11,000 from businessman and philanthropist Simon Peabody — became city property in 1943 but burned down in 1946. Today's roughly 2,500-seat auditorium opened in 1949 and cost $750,000."
  3. Harris v. Daytona Beach, 105 F. Supp. 572 (S.D. Fla. 1952)