TEXAS PAVILIONS & MUSIC HALL

"Friendship at the Fair" is the theme of the Texas pavilion and its adjacent 2,400 seat Music Hall. In addition there is an exhibit called "Life on the Range" and "Art in Texas." The Frontier Palace restaurant and bar in the theater building sport a facade out of the Old West. Outside is a beer garden, snack bar and wandering entertainers.

The Music Hall presents a 90 minute spectacular called "To Broadway With Love." The new show, by producer George Schaefer, is an anthology packed with the moods and music of the American theater from "The Black Crook" of 1864 to recent hits. The show, which cost $1,250,000 to stage, has imaginative costumes and effects.

The Texas Pavilion was hard to photograph, as it was largely blocked by the tracks of the AMF Monorail. This view is from just inside the Fair's River Gate. (CD29 Set 151 #27)
The major focus for the Texas Pavilion was "To Broadway With Love", an elaborate live stage production celebrating 100 years of Broadway musicals. While praised by New York critics, the show was a resounding flop. The remote location of the pavilion may have played  a part in this, as did the much lower than expected attendance for the Fair itself. Faced with mounting losses, the backers were forced to pull the plug on the show relatively early during the first year of the Fair. By the 1965 season they had pulled out of the Fair completely, and the building re-opened as the Carnival pavilion. Click here for more information on "To Broadway With Love", including a copy of the soundtrack album and program. (CD24 Set 129 #4)
The pavilion also featured the Frontier Palace restaurant, which not too surprisingly, featured steak prominently on the menu. (CD29 Set 158 #13)

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