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a 4,000 sq ft addition provided a new lobby, new elevators, stairwells and public restrooms. The entire building also received new roofing and exterior stucco skin. Work also included the addition of an elevator in the adjacent parking garage and improvements to the parking lot, sidewalks and landscaping. The building was renamed The
Mahaffey Theater for the Performing Arts after a local St. Petersburg family who had contributed to the building's capital campaign.
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Progress Energy Center for the Arts. The visual and performing arts complex includes The Mahaffey Theater, the offices of the Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts, the Center
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Mahaffey hosted 234 performances that drew 169,000 paid visitors. In addition to the Florida Orchestra's performances, its top-grossing productions were Riverdance, which appeared for five days, drew an audience of 5,931 and produced a net revenue of $ 18,884, and the three-day Miss
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Mahaffey Theater is under the management of Big3 Entertainment Group, the parent company of Big3 Records, Big3 Studios and Bill Edwards Presents, Inc., located in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Mahaffey Theater first opened in May 1965 as part of the city of St. Petersburg's Bayfront Center entertainment complex. It was first renovated in 1987–1988. In 2004 the demolition of the
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Pageant, which brought in 2,661 people and netted $ 11,043. Elvis' Birthday Bash came in fifth with 1,280 in the audience and $ 5,183 in revenues.
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