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ASU Gammage company history timeline

1885

In Tempe… (1885), whose campus contains the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

1956

In 1956, a collapsed roof rendered a campus facility that served as an auditorium and gymnasium unusable.

1957

The process that led to construction of the Gammage Memorial Auditorium began in 1957 when incumbent ASU President Grady Gammage desired a unique auditorium for the ASU campus.

1959

Wright and Gammage both died in 1959, leaving Wright's protégé William Wesley Peters to undertake completion of the auditorium.

1962

In 1962, Grady Gammage, Jr. turned the first shovel of dirt in the official groundbreaking.

1964

ASU Gammage celebrated its grand opening with great fanfare on September 18, 1964.

The first Broadway production was in 1964 and was Camelot.

…State is home to the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1964, and the Sundome Center for the Performing Arts, the largest single-level theatre in the United States.

1991

Since 1991, hundreds of well-known celebrities, musicians and performers have come through the theater as well including Mary J. Blige, Billy Crystal, Tony Bennett and Melissa Etheridge.

1992

Since 1992, its estimated that ASU Gammage through its Broadway series brought in nearly $1 Billion of economic impact to Tempe as well as the rest of the Valley.

2004

ASU Gammage also hosted the 2004 presidential debate, lectures, and symposiums featuring the world’s most prominent scientists, authors, dignitaries, politicians, and scholars, including Stephen Hawking, Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou and Margaret Thatcher.

On October 13, 2004, the auditorium was the site of the third and closing debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry in the 2004 United States Presidential Election.

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