The Next Act: Restoring the Iowa Theater Building

This is the video that was shown during the announcement by Theatre Cedar Rapids that we are bringing the Iowa Theatre Building back in February of 2010.

This video features comments by Ron Livingston of "Office Space" and Michael Emerson of "Lost"; the announcement of what our first show back in the Iowa Theatre Building will be; historic photos from throughout the life of the building; and, of course, footage of volunteers sandbagging the theatre the day of the flood.

Aaron Brown contributed original music and donated it royalty-free. Many of the photos in this video are mine, but others are contributed by George T. Henry, Steve Eckert and John Schneipkoweit. Special thanks also to Ron Livingston and Michael Emerson, who took time out of very busy schedules in the film industry to record comments of support. Finally, thanks to KCRG for agreeing to allow use of their campaign and flood coverage in the video, and to The Gazette for the historical images of the Iowa Theatre Building.

Please share this video wherever you can. We're really excited about finally getting the Iowa Theatre Building back on its feet.

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• Theatre Cedar Rapids
• Iowa Theater Building
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• Iowa
• stage
• Michael Emerson
• Rob Merritt
• Leslie Charipar
• Casey Prince
• flood
• restoration
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• TCR