PaulPallazola
Express Youself performs their annual show on one of the five largest stages in the United States at the Wang Theater. This 3500 seat hall was originally opened in 1925, as the Metropolitan Center. It was designed by Clarence Blackall, a leading American theater architect. Blackall designed 12 other major Boston theaters, including the Emerson Colonial Theater and Wilbur Theater, as well and the historic Copley Plaza Hotel. it was renamed the Music Hall in 1962 and then in 1980 after a huge financial gift from Dr. An Wang it became The Wang Center For The Performing Arts. In the 1980s I saw the Boston Ballet perform “The Nutcracker” here and saw some of the great rock and roll groups of that era play there, including Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds, The Church, and General Public.
