Public input needed for new Playhouse plan
According to today's Herald, the Coconut Grove Playhouse has a comeback plan. They are holding a series of meetings, which will include the public.The playhouse may take a couple of years to open and one plan is to retrofit the interior, making it a smaller venue, while preserving the exterior. The whole story is here.
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Can't we talk Joseph Adler into taking it over? He's proven himself in the Gables and he's always about to lose his lease. I imagine he'd do a tremendous job at the larger theater.
Raze it. No, really, raze it. Put up a beautiful, old-grove style parking garage and see the rest of the Grove flourish.
Joe's a great director, but the work at the Grove needs a wheeler-dealer fundraiser and a brilliant project manager; the building is in DIRE condition structurally. If they come up with funding tomorrow, it will be a couple of years before there will be a stage to perform on.
Louis Tyrell at Florida Stage is the first name that pops into my head; he's built two theatres from nothing. He knows how to assemble the kind of team needed to turn around the Grove, and has the reputation that could lure in investors/partners. But I can't seriously see him leaving his own theater for this project.
And it will take a name to turn the Grove back into the prominent organization it used to be.
On the other hand, Joe Adler IS a good artistic fit to the Grove.
That building could be the most historic building in the Grove. Thankfully the wheels are now in motion to revive it.
I would like to see them branch out from just having plays and theater there. It would be a great venue for small concerts, especially "unplugged" acoustic sets.
It's true, what is the point of having the place only open on a handful of dates if you can have an event every day or most days?
Fill the schedule up!
You old timers are funny. How many times does it need to close before everyone figures out this venue at this size is a dying breed in Miami. Call it what you want but the past is not the future in the Grove. Your audience is different, the Grove is different, the economy is different than 20 years ago. The only way it might even come close to cover expenses is providing an extremely broad offering as mentioned above. Yet even then its still questionable. Good luck to the developer who is burning his cash.
I love the historic feel but its time to let go, its original purpose has passed. There’s a reason they are looking toward the public, they need new ideas to put in this old box. It would make a great Hotel/Bed/Breakfast but doubt this would be allowed.
They faked it for a long time but trying to use a movie theater for live theater is like entering a donky in a horse race because it resembles a horse. It will finish last and make it's rider look like an idiot.
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