įrom March 17–September 22, 1961, NBC-TV carried a live country music variety program from the theater, Five Star Jubilee, on Friday nights the first network color television series to originate outside of New York City or Hollywood. Heavy clear-span beams replaced columns supporting the balconies, and the Jim Crow-era ticket booth for "coloreds" and its separate entrance were removed. Subsequent renovations moved the orchestra pit behind the curtain and raised the boxes. Ī fire in 1920 completely gutted the stage area, but the remainder was saved by the fireproof asbestos curtain. Infill between these decorative elements is brick. The theater's street facade employs Missouri limestone piers with terra cotta cornices, cartouches, quoins and parapets. The theater was designed for live performance, with a large stage and supporting spaces. Where steel is employed, it uses unusual bonded steel and masonry assemblies. Landers, the original owner, was in the lumber business, providing a possible explanation. The theater is unusual in its use of wood for nearly all structural framing, in contrast with the steel and cast iron more usually employed in its time. It is located in the Walnut Street Commercial Historic District.
It was designed by architects Carl Boller and Brother in association with Hickenlively and Mark of Springfield in a French-influenced neoclassical style. In 1928, the theater became the 35th facility in the world to acquire sound film.
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It has been in continuous use either as a legitimate theatre or a movie theater since it opened. The Landers Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, built in 1909, is the second oldest and largest civic theater operation in Missouri.
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