RBTL: Following up the mayor's comments

November 12, 2009 at 1:26pm

Today, it was the Town of Webster's turn to present a proposal for a new Rochester Broadway Theatre League theater. I'll get to that in another post. The presentation was bookended by reaction to the mayor's suggestion that RBTL ought to consider the former McCurdy's site at Midtown, if renovating the Auditorium Theatre turns out to be too expensive.

"The site selection committee cannot and will not consider any site that has not been formally presented to us," said Frank Hagelberg, who is chair of the site selection committee.

The city, he said, hasn't made a formal presentation to the committee.

Arnie Rothschild, chair of the RBTL Board, said that the mayor called him last night and is in the process of drafting a letter to RBTL officials.

RBTL officials once looked at the McCurdy's site as a potential theater location, Rothschild said. But the last time they went through was a dozen years ago. And the city's now competing with suburban possibilities.

"A lot of these proposals are so exciting and different because we never looked at any other location," Rothschild said.

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Roz Goldman said on Dec. 03, 2009 at 10:07am

RBTL belongs downtown. This is the entertainment center and the center of the county. The Eastman, the Jazz Festival, etc. are in the city and the importance of maintaining Rochester as the place to go for sophisticated performance must be maintained.

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