

What about the rest of the year, especially after the Dallas Opera departed as well - for the Winspear Opera House? As its name implied, the Dallas Summer Musicals (now Broadway Dallas) had the lion's share of summer bookings plus the State Fair Musical in the fall. The difficulty for Fair Park has long been how to bring people in regularly - when the State Fair or the Broadway shows aren't there? Back in 1989, when the Dallas Symphony left its longtime home at the Music Hall for the Meyerson Symphony Center, the Fair Park venue had a huge portion of the year to fill up. The Fair Park Music Hall with its 3,400 seats is much smaller than the Dos Equis in Fair Park (20,000 seats) but provides an alternative to the flexible Toyota Music Factory (which can seat up to 8,000 outdoors and down to 2,500 indoors). It also has hosted recent sell-out appearances of comedian Hasan Minhaj.Īnd Live Nation already partners with quite a few North Texas houses, such as Dos Equis Pavilion, the Toyota Music Factory and the House of Blues in Dallas. Live Nation has already announced shows at the venue, including Il Divo (August 27), The O’Jays + The Commodores (September 4) and K-pop group LOONA (August 25). A new partnership between musical presenter Broadway Dallas and performance presenter Live Nation will give the Music Hall at Fair Park years of "wide-ranging, diverse programming" - and, almost as important, more programming "year-round."
