August 26, 2025 • 39 mins
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The Cabot Theatre in Beverly was closed all summer long for extensive renovations to the theatre where they updated 850 all-new seats, interior remodeling, and a new marquee. Brian Ridolfo, the Executive Director of the Cabot Theatre, stopped by to talk about the latest updates as well as the theatre’s upcoming shows and concerts!
The Cabot Theatre in Beverly was closed all summer long for extensive renovations to the theatre where they updated 850 all-new seats, interior remodeling, and a new marquee. Brian Ridolfo, the Executive Director of the Cabot Theatre, stopped by to talk about the latest updates as well as the theatre’s upcoming shows and concerts!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Absolutely, Hey, folks, this is kind of a new opportunity,
especially for those of you who maybe have anxiety about
calling a talk show. I don't see this as a
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of two way and follow up questions can be asked
and answered. However, for those who are uncomfortable calling and
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
This could be for you. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
There's a way you can use the talkback feature on
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it to us. And Rob Brooks working the wheel out
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you just want to call six one, seven, two, five, ten,
thirty or six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Now we turn our we get local now and we
talk about a real gem. That is I want to
make sure you know about take full advantage of because
it's just gotten better than ever. We're with Brian Rodolpho. Hope,
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I said that right, you did. I took it for granted.
I did not check.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You did it exactly like it spelled.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Brian Rudolpho, the executive director of the Cabin Theater in.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Beverly, right in Beverly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And he's he's live in the studio, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's going to join us to talk about things like
what the what the theater means to the community in
the history of the theater and what they did to it,
where they got the money, and most importantly probably what
it looks like now.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And who's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So first you tell me you're new to the community,
kind of like four months.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I've been here for coming on five months.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Now, Okay, tell me about you tell.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Me about me.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
So I'm thrilled to be here. This is my first time,
when I like to say, kind of sitting in the
chair as an executive director. Prior to this, I was
at a venue called the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.
I was the vice president of programming, a little bit
of a bigger venue down there, about twenty one hundred
seats and we had fifteen hundred seat amphitheater. We had
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a four hundred seat smaller Persidium theater, and I was
my job to do all the programming there, to book
all the shows.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And how does a person get a job like that?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
For me, it was just sort of right place, right time.
I kept kind of falling into things.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Did you book stuff in smaller clubs first, or something
like that?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
So I actually started back in South Florida at a
little three hundred and twenty seat venue. My background is
actually production, so my degree is in lighting design. I
was a technical director and production manager and I worked
in this little gem of a theater in Delry Beach, Florida,
three hundred and twenty three seats, and just kind of
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through circumstance, we had an amphitheater outside that wasn't getting
used a lot, and it was about to get taken
over by another nonprofit, and I said, give me a
shot at programming it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Nobody's putting anything out there.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So why was it about to get taken over because
no one went.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
There because nobody because we literally were not putting anything
there at the time. So it was just kind of
I mean, we're using it for rentals and an occasional
event wedding, but exactly that's sort of a thing. And
I said, let's do a free concert series out there,
free concert series, and everybody looked at me like I
was crazy local artists, and I said, you know, it's
not going to cost us a little bit of money.
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We'll probably lose I don't know, fifty thousand dollars in
the first year. We had some donors that were very
interested in supporting the community and supporting that effort and
most importantly keeping the other nonprofit out of it. And
so we gave it a shot, and that was my
first stab at programming. In the first year, we broke even.
That was through just donations that like I said, it
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was a free concert series, but we would you know,
put out buckets and I'd get on stage and you know,
kind of beg for cash, beg for money, and people responded.
We brought some sponsors on, so just through that we
ended up breaking even in the first year.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So your income streams came from donors and donations and sponsors.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Exactly it was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It was primarily in that first year. We had some
smaller sponsors, but it was really just through people dropping
money in a bucket just because they were having such
a great time we were bringing in. Even this was
South Florida, so any given night it could have been raining,
it could have been ninety degrees, or it could have
been gorgeous. So on the gorgeous nights, we were bringing
in two thousand people and everybody was dropped in a
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few bucks in the in the bucket, and that went
a long way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's always interesting to hear people's career paths to me,
So what was next after that?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So next there was a venue in Palm Beach County
called the Cravis Center, which is another big twenty one
hundred seat theater. And the gentleman who was the vice
president of programming there had been a friend of mine
for a long time. He said that he was looking
for someone to kind of, you know, be his number two,
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and we had some mutual friends. We had dinner together,
and actually that was largely because of my wife, actually
through her connections that came about really and we kind
of reconnected and hit it off, and he brought me
in and so I was at the Cravis Center for
about five years as the programming manager, and I was
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programming a few different series. I was putting a couple
shows in the big hall, but I was booking shows
in our smaller hall, doing a lot of more sort
of culturally based programming. We had a program now called Peak,
which was provocative entertainment at Cravis. So we would book
dance shows. And there's this great band that we used
to bring in called Daca Braco, which is a traditional
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Ukrainian rock band. I say traditional. They played traditional Ukrainian music,
but in a rock sort of style. And so I
loved booking things like that. But just you know, it's
a small, small community. There's not a lot of people. Sorry,
go ahead, then you get fast forward to here. How'd
you get to this gig? So here, I left the
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Cravis Center went to the Peace Center. I got recruited
as the vice presitive programming. I was there for a
long time, but I was looking to the Cravit Center.
In the Peace Center were very large venues. They were
sort of you know, they were pinnacles of the community.
But I always like to say, they weren't really of
the community, not in the same way that my little
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three hundred and twenty three seat venue was. And I
was looking for something smaller, something that was more community
oriented and really engaged in the community. And so I
was kind of keeping an eye on things that were
coming up.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And I had always known about the Cabot.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I had known of Casey Soward, who was the former
executive director who's now the CEO at the Box Center,
and so when I saw that he went to the Box,
I started keeping an eye out and just coincidentally got
a phone.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Call from the people who were recruiting for that, and
boom and boom. That's how it happens.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What is that you mentioned? It was really community oriented?
What does it mean to the community? The Cabot Theater the.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Best way that I could describe it. And this was
sort of an AHA moment that I had. I was
doing an event, sort of a meet the executive director event,
and I was talking to nice young lady and she
had mentioned when she was talking about the theater and
every time she didn't refer to the theater as the Cabot,
she referred to it as our theater. I just love
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the people are coming to our theater and a kind
of click to me that I've heard a lot of
people saying that this this sort of feeling that the
Cabot belongs to the community, and it really has become
a meshed in the fabric of the community and it
means a lot. I mean not just the concert and
the shows that we do, but the community programming that
we do, the educational outreach, just saving the buildings. Our
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five founders got together and the Cabot was close to
being a parking lot or condos or something.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I want to hold you there, yes, because I want
to ask you right after this break about what was
wrong with it such that it needed such extensive renovations. Sure,
after this break on.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I guess is Brian Rodolpho, who's the boss, the executive
director of the awesome historic cab Theater which is just
being renovated now, And we're going to talk a little
bit about why is it a big deal? Why do
people care about the cabin the so much? And part
of it has to do with the history. So Brian,
let loose with some history.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Let loose with the history, all right. So the theater
actually opened in nineteen twenty. It was at the time
were they creating these amazing movie palaces. It would have
been for silent films at the time. It opened as
the Ware Theater, and it had, you know, just a stage,
so there would have been some vaudeville acts that would
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have come to a play, but predominantly it was it
was film.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It was silent film.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It was the gathering place sort of in the you know,
the central hub for the community, and it was that
for a very long time. In the nineteen thirties, the
theater was bought by E. M. Lowe, so not the
same as the Lowe's Movie Change, but a smaller sort
of family chain, and they continued keeping the you know,
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the tradition of showing movies. By that point, vaudeville had
kind of gone out, so it was predominantly just movie
screenings at that time. And it was also at that time,
in the thirties that they added the first marquee. Originally
the building had this gorgeous sort of half round rose
window with a really neat blade sign that said the
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Ware Theater. But then I guess Marquees came into style.
So it's in the nineteen thirties they added the first
to the Marquees and it went through some you know,
times change, economic times change, so the theater had to
go through some repairs. It closed for a little while.
It reopened as a movie theater in the nineteen sixties.
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They added the new Marquee, which was basically the Marquee
that was there until just recently, and it operated as
a movie theater until the seventies, at which point it
was taken over by a company, a magic company. It
was actually the it's in the Guinness Book of World
Record as the longest running magic show.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Just in history.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What were the years for that?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
So the years for that, for me, I don't have
the exact years in front of me. It ran for
thirty six years. I believe it was like seventy eight
through twenty twelve, something like that. However, that math would
work out to be thirty six.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Years or thirty plus years. They were doing a magic show.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They were doing a magic show.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, they would also show movies, yeah, but it was
either movies or it was the magic show.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And it became it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Held a place in people's hearts. I mean, I've talked
to people in the community who remember going to the
Magic Show.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's a kid.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
They would talk about their field trips to the Magic
Show and even just going to see movies there as
a kid, because, as I said, if there wasn't a
Magic show, there was probably a movie that was being screened.
So it was at around the time that they decided
they were going to close down the Magic Company, they
put the building on the market.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And this is approximately when this would.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Have been around twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, And so there was just a group of concerned citizens,
sort of sparked by Rich Marino, who owned Kiyanti restaurant
which across the street, and he said, you know, he
didn't want to see it torn down. He didn't want
to see it become a parking lot or a condo building.
So he worked to gather a group of you know,
like minded community members to save it it and to
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buy it. And in twenty fourteen there actually they were
able to buy it.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
How much did it cost at the time.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I believe it was one point four million at the time,
but I may be off on that figure.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So this is one point four million, but it's a
fixer upper at this time.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It's a big fixer upper at this time.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It is a big It needs new air conditioning, it
needs new seats, It has some internal plaster work that
needs to be prepared. Literally, you know, plaster dust kind
of falling down. There is a long period of time,
not a long period of time, there's a period of
time where they had sort of this mesh net suspended
below this beautifully ornate plaster work that frames the stage
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because it was literally crumbling down.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So did he get renovated then and now it's getting
renovated again.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So it's kind of been done incrementally in stages.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So Henry Berlin, another one of our founders, kind of
got the idea early on to let's not wait till
we raise the money to restore this thing. Let's start
doing shows and we'll fix it up as we go along.
So that's kind of what they did. They replaced the
seats at one point, they restored all of that and
secured the ceiling so it wouldn't fall down on anybody.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And then as they.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Went along they took care of the ada features that
needed to be done. They did some work in the
new lobby, they created they put in an elevator.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
This is ongoing.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
This is ongoing first Sin exactly. So the last big
renovation happened just during COVID about well, I guess the
last major major reservation was about two years ago, which
was the installation of the elevator, which made us fully
client with Ada with modern Ada laws. And then but
prior to that, they redid the lobby during COVID. COVID
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was a great time for theaters to so it was
a horrible time for theaters, but theaters like the Cabin
that had good support were able to kind of go
through and get some infrastructure work done, which being done
now is sort of the culmination of the final step
in as much as you're ever done renovating historic building.
The entire facade is being redone. So we've removed the
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nineteen sixties marquee and we're going back to the nineteen
twenties Rose window with the Blade sign. We're restoring this
incredible historic Rose window. It's going to be just stunning
when it's done. We're redoing all the dressing rooms. Until now,
we have not had showers for the artists that we
have incredible hospitality. My staff is wonderful. They take great
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care of the artists, but the artists like to take
a shower and they need, you know, they want nice
dressing rooms.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
So we're doing all of that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
We're building a new sort of members lounge to help
go ahead, to help sort of service.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That our lobby's tight.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
So it basically just creates more lobby space, more rooms
so we can get some drinks in people's hands or
get some snacks in people's hands before the show.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So twenties, was it a deco style.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
It's actually neo classical, so gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Class school means it looks a little bit like the Parthenon.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It's exactly exactly so as pillars up front it's got
so the inside is really where that shows. The outside
that is basically just been It was a fairly ornate entryway,
but the rest of the building, which is kind of
this brick building, they were old storefronts for the longest
time that weren't really part of the theater. That Salem
News was there for a long time. The Beverly Newspaper
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was there for a long time. Several other businesses came
in and out, but one of the things they did
when the Cabot Performing Arts Center took over. Was to
bring all of those storefronts actually into the performance into
the building itself. So we created what we call the
street Side Lounge, which is one.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Bar that we have.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
We took the other storefronts and made them sort of
a sort of artist hospitality crew rooms, place for the
traveling crews to be. So we incorporated that into the theater.
Now that crew room is what's going to be our
stage side lounge, which is going to be the member lounge.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Okay, by the way, anyone live up in that area
is or anywhere who's been to the theater, I'm curious,
did you have experiences their childhood experiences? Did anybody see
the Magic Show? I am a big fan of magic shows.
I see them regularly, but I had no idea about
this one. Did anyone ever see it to give me
an idea of what it was like? Perhaps you, Brian Rodolpho,
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have an idea of the style of the Magic Show?
Was it an assistant in a box side in half?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, I mean so it was. It was.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I mean it was that too, but it was also
big illusion. It was the way it's been described of me.
I'm gonna sort of age myself a little bit here
or date myself, but very doug Henny, like I think
is kind of the way that it was described to me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
For those who don't know Doug Henning kind of like myself,
I forget what he did.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
He did not hit watermelons with.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
A no, no, no no. That was Gallagher.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Doug Henning was sort of the precursor to the David Copperfields,
to the big big magic shows.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Car disappeared exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
But also the shows tend to be themed. They hung together,
the entire evening hung together. It wasn't just hey, here's
a magic trick, and then we're gonna do this magic trick.
There was sort of a theme that went through the
whole thing. And and but the shows would change all
the time, and they were constantly reinventing it and launching
and staging new shows.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
At what point did you get booze in there? You said,
you keep talking about bars. I'm assuming there are drinks.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
There are drinks there, yes, So I can't speak to
whether or not there were. There was booze when the
Magic Show was there, but basically from the inception of
the Capito Performing Arts Center, since we took over. There's
Bin Booz there, beer and wine and whatever you wish,
So popcorn famous for a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You have more than one bar.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
We actually we have three.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Bars currently and when we come back on September fifteenth,
we'll have four. So we have one upstairs and two downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
How are they different?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
They themed differently, No, no, no, So one in the
main lobby actually was what would have been the where
you would have gone to get candy and popcorn, which,
by the way, you can still go and get candy
and popcorn, but also beer and wine at that bar.
There's the street side lounge, which was made out of
one of those old storefronts, and it's truly that. It's
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just a small little lounge. It's got a great bar
in their full service bar, full liquor bar. Upstairs is
another full liquor bar, beer, wine, mixed drinks, whatever you want.
And then the new bar for the members is going
to be a little bit on the smaller side. It's
really going to be more sort of lounge like. It'll
have some seating areas and it'll be just sort of
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it won't be open to everybody, it'll be open to members.
VIP guests and things like that.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We will get to the show's coming up, and that's
going to be crucial because you got you're gonna want
to go see some of these shows, especially in this
really lux environment.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You speak about membership, tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yes, So membership is a very important thing for the theater.
It's a great way for the community to come together
and support us. But it's not just about supporting us.
There's also some benefits in it for the members. Marine
Cotton is our director of Membership. She does a wonderful
job making sure that the members get the most out
of out of their their money. The primary benefit I
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think that members get is early access to tickets. So
when a show goes on sale, which is usually, we
will announce it on a Wednesday and members can start
buying tickets on Wednesday, and tickets go on sale to
the public on Friday, So if you're not a member,
you might not get a ticket to the show.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Depending on who it is.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Is the members lounge fancier.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
The members Lounge just I don't want to say that
it's fancier, it's just different because the street side lounge
is pretty nice itself. But it's just it's more it's
a it's a it's just a different experience. There's some
some seated bankats and there's some tables, so it's more
it's more of a lounge than it is a bar.
I guess that would be the distinction that I would make.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, great, Well, I want to find out more about
the you know, what makes it so special? What it
looks like. Now it must be opulent and nice. I
don't have a sense yet. We'll get to that, and
i'll ask you about the construction. Well, you talked about neoclassical,
but I'm curious about the construction. And I really appreciate
you are not shy about telling me how much stuff costs,
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because that's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
That's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
How much stuff cost? How much did it cost? Where'd
you get the money? How did you raise the money?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So we'll get into that, and I'd love to know
if anybody has been to this Cabot theater and what
their experience might have been, and have them try to
have you convince other folks to go, because it seems
like these type of things are worth saving more on
this after these words on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, and there you go. Bradley J.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
For Dan, and we're speaking with Brian Riudelpho, who's the
executive director the beautiful and very important to the community.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Cabint Theater up in Beverly.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And we've we've come a long way, we've come halfway,
and I guess it's time to talk about You talked
about did you complete what the renovations actually worre?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Did you drill down? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
You kind of did, right, I kind of did.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, Okay, Yeah, So how much does all this cost?
And where's the money come from?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
So this current most recent renovation is going to come
in right and around the budgets three point six million
for this and this is on top of we're north
of twelve million dollars total for renovations throughout the entire
you know, history, since we've had it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, So I got across the street by it for
one point four million.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
He in a group of citizens, Yeah yeah, and that
number I may not be correct on that number, but
somewhere in that neighbor yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So they had to know that that was nothing, that
was just openers and in the poker game that was about.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
To be they definitely knew so.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
And really a majority of the money was through uh,
community members, large and small donations. I mean a little
bit of money from some foundations, from Mass Cultural Council and.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Charge of getting all that money uh.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
So, Uh, it's a combination of people the board originally
and then Casey Soward who was the former executive director.
Uh and then you know, our development team is responsible
for for doing a lot of that. Kimberly Ballard is
our vice president of development.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
So all these people have to get paid.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
All these people have to get paid, and that's part
of the expense. That's of course, that's part of the expense.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, I mean that's how they get paid through the
through the donations, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So we're actually about maybe eighty percent earned revenue twenty
percent donations. And now when we talk about these large
capital projects, that's mostly through donations. This one is sort
of a mix of we're funding it through some of
our reserves and also just some generous donations.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Right from the community.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is one what exactly what exactly do you do?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What does the executive director do?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And I'll strapolate that to in general, I have no
idea what executtive directors do. And you'd think person in
my position and my age and my extreme intelligence. But
understand that I have what do you do? What do
you get up in the morning, you have your coffee,
you go.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To work, what do you do do? They just wait
for somebody to ask you a question? What should we
do about this? Brian? And you make executives decisions?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
That is that is definitely some of it.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
And like I told you before, I've really only been
sitting in the chair for five months, so I'm still
working out what exist you have?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Exactly. I hope I'm doing a better job. At least
every month.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I like to think I earned at least another month.
But so my job is largely to set direction.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And uh so what does that mean? So I mean
I kind of meetings. There's lots of meeting, lots of meetings.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
For my calendar of Wednesdays tomorrow, I have seven meetings.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
So it's my job to stort to figure out what
the community wants and to figure out how to get
get it.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
So do you have your crew decide how to actuate
this vision?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So yeah, along with me.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, we have a fantastic staff, so I have
we have somebody who actually does all of the booking,
so I'll kind of say I want these kinds of shows,
and Seth will go out and get those kinds of
shows for us. We've got an incredible production team.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Jill sort of heads everything up, Andrew is our production manager,
Carla is the front of house, and they all kind
of come together. They advance the shows with the artists.
They make sure that the artists have you know, we
have the back line, the drums and amplifiers that they need,
that we know what time they're getting here, and all
of that fun stuff, what the artists want to eat.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So I have people to take care of all that.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I tend not to work at that level called that
if I'm if Sometimes I want to go there because
that's my background, but that's getting into the weeds, and
my people know beer how to do all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You're a highly paid guy. You don't want to be
using your expensive hours on that.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
And not just that, I mean I have people specialize
in this and they're better at it than I am,
so I try not to get in their way.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And now I support. Well, let's see is it time.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
To Oh yeah, I still don't have a picture of
what it looks like. You've told me that it is neoclassical,
but what about inside? Is it really lush with handel?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you through coming in
off of Cabot Street and coming into the theater. Okay,
so when the renovations are done, you will you'll come
in from Cabot Street. What you're going to see is
going to be this newly renovated facade, this gorgeous restored
half round rose window, ornate masonry work sort of surrounding
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that beautiful awning that's now going to go all the
way down the block. So while you're waiting in line,
you'll be sort of protected from the elements on top
of this awning are going to be these beautiful sculptural elements.
We're calling them sALS to harken back to the naval
history of Beverly. They'll be lit from below, so we
can sort of have we can create movement with light
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and just you know, set the tone for as you
walk into the theater.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So this is not your average theater. This is this
is above board This is spectacle.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
This is spectacle.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
This is really the intent behind what we're doing now
is to really ignite Cabot Street, to ignite downtown Beverly,
to ex people to sort of come into town and
want to be there, whether you're coming to the theater,
it just come into some of the great restaurants we
have around us. It's just going to make it an
exciting place to be.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So I've come into the lobby and now come.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Into the lobby and you see this beautifully restored lobby
which has this really long bar where you can get popcorn,
you can get candy. It really evokes an old movie theater.
I mean, that's where you feel you are. So it'll
bring you back to your childhood.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
All right, this is a tough question, okay, and I
want to know. This is what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Okay, how much is beer there?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Beer?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Well, it's funny, you say, is that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Like going to a ballgame where it's I don't know,
what is it? Eighteen bucks a beer?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I will say, it's not as bad as going to
a ballgame. It's not as bad as going to most
venues around here. But a beard if you get a
twenty four ounce beer. It's going to cost you fourteen
dollars twenty four ounces twenty but that's pretty good size beer.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's yes, it is. It'd be cool if you had
an option for poor people.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
You can you can get pbe are five bucks Miller.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Lite leave it's not five, but I think we do
it for for eight. And maybe we have two venues.
I actually haven't talked about off cab it. We have
a smaller one hundred and fifty seat venue.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Special I could, I could maybe special dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
You come in and you say Bradley j And you
can get a PBR for eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
First four people, okay, and you have a full bar
for fancy cocktails and.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Full bar for fancy cocktails. Yes, right, and that yeah. Yeah,
So it's it's it's really you come to the theater.
You're there to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, now, key question. Can you take your drink in
the theater?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You can take your drink in the theater.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Oh and then if they spill it on the seats,
you're just gonna say, that's the price of doing business.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
That's the price of doing business. We have people who
come in and clean up the floors. They're concrete floors
in the seats, carpet in the aisles, but under the
seats is concrete, so easy.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
To mop up.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And okay, uh, you know steam cleaners for the seats.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh good, that's a very that's very important. Yeah, you
don't want to get it to smell stinky.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
We don't. You will not know that people are drinking
bringing drinks in there.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Smell that new house smell.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
It's I don't know if it has a new house smell.
It's one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Let me see, so we now are entering into the theater,
entering into the theater itself.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yes, and what do we feel and see? And here?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So you walk into this theater and you are taken
back to the nineteen twenties. It is uh, well, the
seats are brand new, seats even have cup holds, so
but it sort of keeps the same field.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Cushiony seats are high.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
They are cushiony seats.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
They're very nice.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Armrests, they have armrests.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
They have cushion armrests, so not like fabric cushiony, but
not you know, not just car level exactly exactly good.
So you go in, you see there's beautiful murals painted
on the wall, some of which are original to the building,
some of which were added by the Magic Company, but
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they blend in perfectly with the building.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Up above, as.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You look up, there's a gorgeous chandelier that's lit in
different colors and it's just it's a giant round chandelier
and this giant round, recessed cove up in the ceiling beautiful.
You look toward the stage, there's several different arches that
come in. So the presidium arch is like the main
arch of the theater, which most you know, all theaters
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have that, but ours is sort of you know, there's
the presidium march on the stage, and then you come
out twenty feet and there's another arch, and that entire
area is done with with just really ornate plaster work,
and there's this sort of you know, these really sort
of Greek esque Romanesque paintings, really Greek murals that are
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painted all on the walls that are just stunning and
have been beautifully restored.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Okay, now, Beverly or entire north Shore, an entire group
of people, within the sound of my voice, how do
you not go to the Cabbit Theater? Now that you
know what an exquisite experience it's going to be. It's
not just a theater, pretty clearly, it's quite it's like
a destination.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
It is a destination.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
After this, we're going to talk to Gary and Beverly,
who clearly knows what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'm guessing maybe he has a question.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And then we get to the key information who is
going to be playing there, and that's coming up on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know what everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Everybody wants something cool to do that doesn't cost an
arm in a leg, and we are providing you with that.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We are letting you know about the.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Cabot Theater which has been wildly and freshly renovated to
be a real experience. And before we go to Gary
and talk more to our guest, Brian Rodolph of the
executive director, I want to note that a previous guest,
a guest from last week, David Bieber, who is a
cultural archivist and has everything.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He has everything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He has displays on cultural stuff like rock and roll
stuff at the Verb Hotel where they even have banned
themes room like the car's room. He I understand maybe
putting a display up there to add to the cultural
significance of the Cabin Theater. Now, Brian, if you'll allow
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me to go to Gary and Beverly, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Hi. Gary, you're on WBZ with Brian and Brad. How
you doing?
Speaker 7 (32:29):
How are you doing there?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Guy?
Speaker 7 (32:31):
How are you doing good? Yeah? I'm I'm actually from Beverly.
I I grew up with the Cabin Cinema.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
I was there as an usher as a kid, as
an at sixteen.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah. I used to walk around the flashlight and keep
telling you to keep keep their feets off the chairs.
And that was the That was the year I spent
the whole month watching Jaws because it was playing at
the Capital Cinema for a longest a month.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I've had a similar experience, I I do was an usher.
Actually it was the Strand Theater in Dover, New Hampshire.
Not only was I one, I was sure I did everything.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
This exactly, And I know.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
The feeling of seeing a movie what seems like a
million times saw whatever that movie was with Robbie Benson
jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Like oh, yeah, yeah, fourteen times.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I can't think of the movie.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
I'm glad that. I'm glad to keep in the Cabin
Simmer alive, you know, I mean lagrinded David came out
for so long and then you know, if Everie took
it over and kept kept it going.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
You know, so you have to tell the kids to
be quiet, right, you have to say hey, hey, oh yeah, yeah,
that never one. I'm sure you've you caught some people
doing more than putting their feet on the seats as well.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Oh yeah, oh no, actually no, I mean back in
those days, it wasn't too bad. I mean taking the
shoes off of a sock or something. But I mean
it wasn't really you know, nothing really super league bad
or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
But okay, I've heard some stories about first dates that happened.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Right, yeah, yeah, people smoke.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I got gotta kick out.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I mean, not if we see them, you're under you're
under oath, yes, not if we see them.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I feel bad.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I feel bad. I feel bad for the guy who
took over the cabin sima uh with Grand David, because
they they had to paint all those bricks on the building,
and one by one, you know they painted all the
bricks from the building years ago. Yeah, individually, that's.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah, that's been that's I think we kind of covered
that up with just one giant coat of paint.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
That was before I got there.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
All right, Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Very much. It's good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Now we need to use the remaining time to have
you tell us who's coming there, when they're coming.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Who's coming. Well, So.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
The first big show we we reopened on September fifteenth,
and we're very excited about that show. We were there's
some question whether or not we're going to be able
to open, but we have the renowned Steve Winwood. Really
that's going to be our first show back. Like I said,
that's the fifteenth of September. That show is unfortunately sold out,
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but that's one of the shows. If you were a member,
you would have gotten tickets to that show. If you
weren't a member, you probably didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
How much is a membership?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
You can you can get membership starting at one hundred
and seventy five dollars and they go all the way
up to twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Do you get anything else?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
So you get second membership starting at sixty dollars. I
apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
And do you get discounts on anything else? On popcorn?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
You get you get discounts on popcorn, you get free movies,
you have discounts we'll do only only if they mentioned Bradley,
you'll get Occasionally we'll have a show that you know,
we'll just we'll say, hey, let's give some members tickets
and we'll say, who wants to come see this show,
and so you can get some free shows as well.
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So it really is it's a it's a great benefit.
It's a great membership to have. The key benefit really
is early access to the show. So if you wanted
to see Steve Winwood, you would have gone.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What happens if like somebody doesn't show up and there's
an empty seat, can they walk up?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
You know, if somebody waits around long enough, can they
get in?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Or just no, no no no.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
So if we won't we don't double sell tickets. But
a lot of times what will happen is somebody will
call us up last minute and say I'm not going
to be able to make this show.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
We give them a.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Basically a tax credit for the price of their tickets,
and then we'll put those tickets back on sale, but
not if you just don't show up. If you call
us and let us know, we'll resell that ticket at
ticket price.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
We don't resell above face value.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Steve Winwood, Okay, Steve Winwood is coming up. Whoever.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
September eighteenth, we have the Red Hot Chili Pipers come in.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Not peppers, but pipers.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
These are bagpipers that play rock and roll sounds sounds
kind of strange. I've seen them many times. It is
an exciting, high energy show. Well worth coming to see it.
How many bag pipers I believe there's seven of them,
but I may be.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Off by a pipe.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
They have a drum or anything.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
They have a whole band. Yeah, they have a whole band.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
So there's guitars and guitars are on drumspace and electric pipes.
So I guess picture ac DC with instead of one
bag with thunderstruck.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Is one of their big course, of course it is, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
And then I mentioned we have this smaller venue off
Cabot we have We do a lot of comedy there.
We have Brian Pushane coming up, great comedian, he'll be there.
Back over at the Cabot, we have Sean Cassidy coming
in in September, Zeppelin Reimagined, a wonderful Zeppelin cover band.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Blues Traveler is going to.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Be in Travelers Still out There.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Blues Travelers Still out There.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
They're they're coming in their first time at the Cabot
and that show is actually sold out as well, So
maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that one. But we have
The Evil Dead in concerts. If you like the movie
The Evil Dead, you come and see a movie live
band on stage playing the score right alongside the theater.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
We have Almost Queen is coming in for the kids.
We have Puppy.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Palace Live, great show with live animals that are coming in.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
With Almost Queen, a Queen tribute band, Almost.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Queens exactly Queen a great Queen tribute band, very good.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
We do you know we still show movies, So we
have Peewee's Big Adventure that we're going to be showing.
You Mean Girls is coming in show coming in called
Otel and Friends. O'tell played h with the Dead and
Friends band and he's played with just Melvin Seals and
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it's it's gonna be a great, great show.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, that's that's good. Good place to stop. Thank you,
so much for coming all the way into the studio.
I really appreciate that. Brian Rodolpho, executive director of the
very special Cabin Theater, all refurbed and ready to go
a real destination for you. Something to do? Hey, honey,
what should we do tonight? I know, let's go to
the Kabby Theater. See you with the Cabot all right
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now coming up, I we have a a horror movie
star coming up. We go to talk about the Silver
Scream convention, and then after she departs, we will just
resume discussion about what would you do this time if
COVID came back?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
WBZ
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Absolutely, Hey, folks, this is kind of a new opportunity,
especially for those of you who maybe have anxiety about
calling a talk show. I don't see this as a
substitute really for calling, because that's great because it's kind
of two way and follow up questions can be asked
and answered. However, for those who are uncomfortable calling and
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having a back and forth, check this out.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This could be for you. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
There's a way you can use the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Make sure you download it, of course,
do you download it, You open it, and then right
there in the upper right hand corner will be a
red microphone and the natural thing to do is push
that button, very intuitive, and you leave a message, you
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say what you want to say, and then it sends
it to us. And Rob Brooks working the wheel out
here and mass to control the producer and he gets
it and he gets it set up and he says, hey, Bradley,
we got him. We got a message, and we play
it probably unless it's some horrific, horrible message. And if
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you just want to call six one, seven, two, five, ten,
thirty or six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Now we turn our we get local now and we
talk about a real gem. That is I want to
make sure you know about take full advantage of because
it's just gotten better than ever. We're with Brian Rodolpho. Hope,
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I said that right, you did. I took it for granted.
I did not check.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You did it exactly like it spelled.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Brian Rudolpho, the executive director of the Cabin Theater in.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Beverly, right in Beverly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And he's he's live in the studio, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's going to join us to talk about things like
what the what the theater means to the community in
the history of the theater and what they did to it,
where they got the money, and most importantly probably what
it looks like now.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And who's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So first you tell me you're new to the community,
kind of like four months.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I've been here for coming on five months.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Now, Okay, tell me about you tell.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Me about me.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
So I'm thrilled to be here. This is my first time,
when I like to say, kind of sitting in the
chair as an executive director. Prior to this, I was
at a venue called the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.
I was the vice president of programming, a little bit
of a bigger venue down there, about twenty one hundred
seats and we had fifteen hundred seat amphitheater. We had
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a four hundred seat smaller Persidium theater, and I was
my job to do all the programming there, to book
all the shows.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And how does a person get a job like that?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
For me, it was just sort of right place, right time.
I kept kind of falling into things.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Did you book stuff in smaller clubs first, or something
like that?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
So I actually started back in South Florida at a
little three hundred and twenty seat venue. My background is
actually production, so my degree is in lighting design. I
was a technical director and production manager and I worked
in this little gem of a theater in Delry Beach, Florida,
three hundred and twenty three seats, and just kind of
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through circumstance, we had an amphitheater outside that wasn't getting
used a lot, and it was about to get taken
over by another nonprofit, and I said, give me a
shot at programming it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Nobody's putting anything out there.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So why was it about to get taken over because
no one went.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
There because nobody because we literally were not putting anything
there at the time. So it was just kind of
I mean, we're using it for rentals and an occasional
event wedding, but exactly that's sort of a thing. And
I said, let's do a free concert series out there,
free concert series, and everybody looked at me like I
was crazy local artists, and I said, you know, it's
not going to cost us a little bit of money.
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We'll probably lose I don't know, fifty thousand dollars in
the first year. We had some donors that were very
interested in supporting the community and supporting that effort and
most importantly keeping the other nonprofit out of it. And
so we gave it a shot, and that was my
first stab at programming. In the first year, we broke even.
That was through just donations that like I said, it
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was a free concert series, but we would you know,
put out buckets and I'd get on stage and you know,
kind of beg for cash, beg for money, and people responded.
We brought some sponsors on, so just through that we
ended up breaking even in the first year.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So your income streams came from donors and donations and sponsors.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Exactly it was.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It was primarily in that first year. We had some
smaller sponsors, but it was really just through people dropping
money in a bucket just because they were having such
a great time we were bringing in. Even this was
South Florida, so any given night it could have been raining,
it could have been ninety degrees, or it could have
been gorgeous. So on the gorgeous nights, we were bringing
in two thousand people and everybody was dropped in a
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few bucks in the in the bucket, and that went
a long way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's always interesting to hear people's career paths to me,
So what was next after that?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So next there was a venue in Palm Beach County
called the Cravis Center, which is another big twenty one
hundred seat theater. And the gentleman who was the vice
president of programming there had been a friend of mine
for a long time. He said that he was looking
for someone to kind of, you know, be his number two,
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and we had some mutual friends. We had dinner together,
and actually that was largely because of my wife, actually
through her connections that came about really and we kind
of reconnected and hit it off, and he brought me
in and so I was at the Cravis Center for
about five years as the programming manager, and I was
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programming a few different series. I was putting a couple
shows in the big hall, but I was booking shows
in our smaller hall, doing a lot of more sort
of culturally based programming. We had a program now called Peak,
which was provocative entertainment at Cravis. So we would book
dance shows. And there's this great band that we used
to bring in called Daca Braco, which is a traditional
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Ukrainian rock band. I say traditional. They played traditional Ukrainian music,
but in a rock sort of style. And so I
loved booking things like that. But just you know, it's
a small, small community. There's not a lot of people. Sorry,
go ahead, then you get fast forward to here. How'd
you get to this gig? So here, I left the
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Cravis Center went to the Peace Center. I got recruited
as the vice presitive programming. I was there for a
long time, but I was looking to the Cravit Center.
In the Peace Center were very large venues. They were
sort of you know, they were pinnacles of the community.
But I always like to say, they weren't really of
the community, not in the same way that my little
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three hundred and twenty three seat venue was. And I
was looking for something smaller, something that was more community
oriented and really engaged in the community. And so I
was kind of keeping an eye on things that were
coming up.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
And I had always known about the Cabot.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I had known of Casey Soward, who was the former
executive director who's now the CEO at the Box Center,
and so when I saw that he went to the Box,
I started keeping an eye out and just coincidentally got
a phone.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Call from the people who were recruiting for that, and
boom and boom. That's how it happens.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What is that you mentioned? It was really community oriented?
What does it mean to the community? The Cabot Theater the.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Best way that I could describe it. And this was
sort of an AHA moment that I had. I was
doing an event, sort of a meet the executive director event,
and I was talking to nice young lady and she
had mentioned when she was talking about the theater and
every time she didn't refer to the theater as the Cabot,
she referred to it as our theater. I just love
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the people are coming to our theater and a kind
of click to me that I've heard a lot of
people saying that this this sort of feeling that the
Cabot belongs to the community, and it really has become
a meshed in the fabric of the community and it
means a lot. I mean not just the concert and
the shows that we do, but the community programming that
we do, the educational outreach, just saving the buildings. Our
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five founders got together and the Cabot was close to
being a parking lot or condos or something.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I want to hold you there, yes, because I want
to ask you right after this break about what was
wrong with it such that it needed such extensive renovations. Sure,
after this break on.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I guess is Brian Rodolpho, who's the boss, the executive
director of the awesome historic cab Theater which is just
being renovated now, And we're going to talk a little
bit about why is it a big deal? Why do
people care about the cabin the so much? And part
of it has to do with the history. So Brian,
let loose with some history.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Let loose with the history, all right. So the theater
actually opened in nineteen twenty. It was at the time
were they creating these amazing movie palaces. It would have
been for silent films at the time. It opened as
the Ware Theater, and it had, you know, just a stage,
so there would have been some vaudeville acts that would
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have come to a play, but predominantly it was it
was film.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It was silent film.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
It was the gathering place sort of in the you know,
the central hub for the community, and it was that
for a very long time. In the nineteen thirties, the
theater was bought by E. M. Lowe, so not the
same as the Lowe's Movie Change, but a smaller sort
of family chain, and they continued keeping the you know,
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the tradition of showing movies. By that point, vaudeville had
kind of gone out, so it was predominantly just movie
screenings at that time. And it was also at that time,
in the thirties that they added the first marquee. Originally
the building had this gorgeous sort of half round rose
window with a really neat blade sign that said the
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Ware Theater. But then I guess Marquees came into style.
So it's in the nineteen thirties they added the first
to the Marquees and it went through some you know,
times change, economic times change, so the theater had to
go through some repairs. It closed for a little while.
It reopened as a movie theater in the nineteen sixties.
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They added the new Marquee, which was basically the Marquee
that was there until just recently, and it operated as
a movie theater until the seventies, at which point it
was taken over by a company, a magic company. It
was actually the it's in the Guinness Book of World
Record as the longest running magic show.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Just in history.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What were the years for that?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
So the years for that, for me, I don't have
the exact years in front of me. It ran for
thirty six years. I believe it was like seventy eight
through twenty twelve, something like that. However, that math would
work out to be thirty six.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Years or thirty plus years. They were doing a magic show.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
They were doing a magic show.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, they would also show movies, yeah, but it was
either movies or it was the magic show.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And it became it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Held a place in people's hearts. I mean, I've talked
to people in the community who remember going to the
Magic Show.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's a kid.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
They would talk about their field trips to the Magic
Show and even just going to see movies there as
a kid, because, as I said, if there wasn't a
Magic show, there was probably a movie that was being screened.
So it was at around the time that they decided
they were going to close down the Magic Company, they
put the building on the market.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And this is approximately when this would.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Have been around twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, And so there was just a group of concerned citizens,
sort of sparked by Rich Marino, who owned Kiyanti restaurant
which across the street, and he said, you know, he
didn't want to see it torn down. He didn't want
to see it become a parking lot or a condo building.
So he worked to gather a group of you know,
like minded community members to save it it and to
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buy it. And in twenty fourteen there actually they were
able to buy it.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
How much did it cost at the time.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I believe it was one point four million at the time,
but I may be off on that figure.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So this is one point four million, but it's a
fixer upper at this time.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It's a big fixer upper at this time.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It is a big It needs new air conditioning, it
needs new seats, It has some internal plaster work that
needs to be prepared. Literally, you know, plaster dust kind
of falling down. There is a long period of time,
not a long period of time, there's a period of
time where they had sort of this mesh net suspended
below this beautifully ornate plaster work that frames the stage
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because it was literally crumbling down.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So did he get renovated then and now it's getting
renovated again.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So it's kind of been done incrementally in stages.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So Henry Berlin, another one of our founders, kind of
got the idea early on to let's not wait till
we raise the money to restore this thing. Let's start
doing shows and we'll fix it up as we go along.
So that's kind of what they did. They replaced the
seats at one point, they restored all of that and
secured the ceiling so it wouldn't fall down on anybody.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And then as they.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Went along they took care of the ada features that
needed to be done. They did some work in the
new lobby, they created they put in an elevator.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
This is ongoing.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
This is ongoing first Sin exactly. So the last big
renovation happened just during COVID about well, I guess the
last major major reservation was about two years ago, which
was the installation of the elevator, which made us fully
client with Ada with modern Ada laws. And then but
prior to that, they redid the lobby during COVID. COVID
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was a great time for theaters to so it was
a horrible time for theaters, but theaters like the Cabin
that had good support were able to kind of go
through and get some infrastructure work done, which being done
now is sort of the culmination of the final step
in as much as you're ever done renovating historic building.
The entire facade is being redone. So we've removed the
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nineteen sixties marquee and we're going back to the nineteen
twenties Rose window with the Blade sign. We're restoring this
incredible historic Rose window. It's going to be just stunning
when it's done. We're redoing all the dressing rooms. Until now,
we have not had showers for the artists that we
have incredible hospitality. My staff is wonderful. They take great
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care of the artists, but the artists like to take
a shower and they need, you know, they want nice
dressing rooms.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
So we're doing all of that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
We're building a new sort of members lounge to help
go ahead, to help sort of service.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That our lobby's tight.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
So it basically just creates more lobby space, more rooms
so we can get some drinks in people's hands or
get some snacks in people's hands before the show.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So twenties, was it a deco style.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
It's actually neo classical, so gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Class school means it looks a little bit like the Parthenon.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It's exactly exactly so as pillars up front it's got
so the inside is really where that shows. The outside
that is basically just been It was a fairly ornate entryway,
but the rest of the building, which is kind of
this brick building, they were old storefronts for the longest
time that weren't really part of the theater. That Salem
News was there for a long time. The Beverly Newspaper
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was there for a long time. Several other businesses came
in and out, but one of the things they did
when the Cabot Performing Arts Center took over. Was to
bring all of those storefronts actually into the performance into
the building itself. So we created what we call the
street Side Lounge, which is one.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Bar that we have.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
We took the other storefronts and made them sort of
a sort of artist hospitality crew rooms, place for the
traveling crews to be. So we incorporated that into the theater.
Now that crew room is what's going to be our
stage side lounge, which is going to be the member lounge.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Okay, by the way, anyone live up in that area
is or anywhere who's been to the theater, I'm curious,
did you have experiences their childhood experiences? Did anybody see
the Magic Show? I am a big fan of magic shows.
I see them regularly, but I had no idea about
this one. Did anyone ever see it to give me
an idea of what it was like? Perhaps you, Brian Rodolpho,
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have an idea of the style of the Magic Show?
Was it an assistant in a box side in half?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, I mean so it was. It was.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I mean it was that too, but it was also
big illusion. It was the way it's been described of me.
I'm gonna sort of age myself a little bit here
or date myself, but very doug Henny, like I think
is kind of the way that it was described to me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
For those who don't know Doug Henning kind of like myself,
I forget what he did.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
He did not hit watermelons with.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
A no, no, no no. That was Gallagher.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Doug Henning was sort of the precursor to the David Copperfields,
to the big big magic shows.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Car disappeared exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
But also the shows tend to be themed. They hung together,
the entire evening hung together. It wasn't just hey, here's
a magic trick, and then we're gonna do this magic trick.
There was sort of a theme that went through the
whole thing. And and but the shows would change all
the time, and they were constantly reinventing it and launching
and staging new shows.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
At what point did you get booze in there? You said,
you keep talking about bars. I'm assuming there are drinks.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
There are drinks there, yes, So I can't speak to
whether or not there were. There was booze when the
Magic Show was there, but basically from the inception of
the Capito Performing Arts Center, since we took over. There's
Bin Booz there, beer and wine and whatever you wish,
So popcorn famous for a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You have more than one bar.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
We actually we have three.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Bars currently and when we come back on September fifteenth,
we'll have four. So we have one upstairs and two downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
How are they different?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
They themed differently, No, no, no, So one in the
main lobby actually was what would have been the where
you would have gone to get candy and popcorn, which,
by the way, you can still go and get candy
and popcorn, but also beer and wine at that bar.
There's the street side lounge, which was made out of
one of those old storefronts, and it's truly that. It's
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just a small little lounge. It's got a great bar
in their full service bar, full liquor bar. Upstairs is
another full liquor bar, beer, wine, mixed drinks, whatever you want.
And then the new bar for the members is going
to be a little bit on the smaller side. It's
really going to be more sort of lounge like. It'll
have some seating areas and it'll be just sort of
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it won't be open to everybody, it'll be open to members.
VIP guests and things like that.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We will get to the show's coming up, and that's
going to be crucial because you got you're gonna want
to go see some of these shows, especially in this
really lux environment.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You speak about membership, tell me about that.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yes, So membership is a very important thing for the theater.
It's a great way for the community to come together
and support us. But it's not just about supporting us.
There's also some benefits in it for the members. Marine
Cotton is our director of Membership. She does a wonderful
job making sure that the members get the most out
of out of their their money. The primary benefit I
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think that members get is early access to tickets. So
when a show goes on sale, which is usually, we
will announce it on a Wednesday and members can start
buying tickets on Wednesday, and tickets go on sale to
the public on Friday, So if you're not a member,
you might not get a ticket to the show.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Depending on who it is.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Is the members lounge fancier.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
The members Lounge just I don't want to say that
it's fancier, it's just different because the street side lounge
is pretty nice itself. But it's just it's more it's
a it's a it's just a different experience. There's some
some seated bankats and there's some tables, so it's more
it's more of a lounge than it is a bar.
I guess that would be the distinction that I would make.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, great, Well, I want to find out more about
the you know, what makes it so special? What it
looks like. Now it must be opulent and nice. I
don't have a sense yet. We'll get to that, and
i'll ask you about the construction. Well, you talked about neoclassical,
but I'm curious about the construction. And I really appreciate
you are not shy about telling me how much stuff costs,
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because that's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
That's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
How much stuff cost? How much did it cost? Where'd
you get the money? How did you raise the money?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So we'll get into that, and I'd love to know
if anybody has been to this Cabot theater and what
their experience might have been, and have them try to
have you convince other folks to go, because it seems
like these type of things are worth saving more on
this after these words on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, and there you go. Bradley J.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
For Dan, and we're speaking with Brian Riudelpho, who's the
executive director the beautiful and very important to the community.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Cabint Theater up in Beverly.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And we've we've come a long way, we've come halfway,
and I guess it's time to talk about You talked
about did you complete what the renovations actually worre?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Did you drill down? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
You kind of did, right, I kind of did.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, Okay, Yeah, So how much does all this cost?
And where's the money come from?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
So this current most recent renovation is going to come
in right and around the budgets three point six million
for this and this is on top of we're north
of twelve million dollars total for renovations throughout the entire
you know, history, since we've had it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, So I got across the street by it for
one point four million.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
He in a group of citizens, Yeah yeah, and that
number I may not be correct on that number, but
somewhere in that neighbor yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So they had to know that that was nothing, that
was just openers and in the poker game that was about.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
To be they definitely knew so.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
And really a majority of the money was through uh,
community members, large and small donations. I mean a little
bit of money from some foundations, from Mass Cultural Council and.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Charge of getting all that money uh.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
So, Uh, it's a combination of people the board originally
and then Casey Soward who was the former executive director.
Uh and then you know, our development team is responsible
for for doing a lot of that. Kimberly Ballard is
our vice president of development.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
So all these people have to get paid.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
All these people have to get paid, and that's part
of the expense. That's of course, that's part of the expense.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, I mean that's how they get paid through the
through the donations, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So we're actually about maybe eighty percent earned revenue twenty
percent donations. And now when we talk about these large
capital projects, that's mostly through donations. This one is sort
of a mix of we're funding it through some of
our reserves and also just some generous donations.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Right from the community.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is one what exactly what exactly do you do?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What does the executive director do?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And I'll strapolate that to in general, I have no
idea what executtive directors do. And you'd think person in
my position and my age and my extreme intelligence. But
understand that I have what do you do? What do
you get up in the morning, you have your coffee,
you go.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
To work, what do you do do? They just wait
for somebody to ask you a question? What should we
do about this? Brian? And you make executives decisions?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
That is that is definitely some of it.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
And like I told you before, I've really only been
sitting in the chair for five months, so I'm still
working out what exist you have?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Exactly. I hope I'm doing a better job. At least
every month.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I like to think I earned at least another month.
But so my job is largely to set direction.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And uh so what does that mean? So I mean
I kind of meetings. There's lots of meeting, lots of meetings.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
For my calendar of Wednesdays tomorrow, I have seven meetings.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
So it's my job to stort to figure out what
the community wants and to figure out how to get
get it.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
So do you have your crew decide how to actuate
this vision?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So yeah, along with me.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, we have a fantastic staff, so I have
we have somebody who actually does all of the booking,
so I'll kind of say I want these kinds of shows,
and Seth will go out and get those kinds of
shows for us. We've got an incredible production team.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Jill sort of heads everything up, Andrew is our production manager,
Carla is the front of house, and they all kind
of come together. They advance the shows with the artists.
They make sure that the artists have you know, we
have the back line, the drums and amplifiers that they need,
that we know what time they're getting here, and all
of that fun stuff, what the artists want to eat.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So I have people to take care of all that.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I tend not to work at that level called that
if I'm if Sometimes I want to go there because
that's my background, but that's getting into the weeds, and
my people know beer how to do all of that.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You're a highly paid guy. You don't want to be
using your expensive hours on that.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
And not just that, I mean I have people specialize
in this and they're better at it than I am,
so I try not to get in their way.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And now I support. Well, let's see is it time.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
To Oh yeah, I still don't have a picture of
what it looks like. You've told me that it is neoclassical,
but what about inside? Is it really lush with handel?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you through coming in
off of Cabot Street and coming into the theater. Okay,
so when the renovations are done, you will you'll come
in from Cabot Street. What you're going to see is
going to be this newly renovated facade, this gorgeous restored
half round rose window, ornate masonry work sort of surrounding
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that beautiful awning that's now going to go all the
way down the block. So while you're waiting in line,
you'll be sort of protected from the elements on top
of this awning are going to be these beautiful sculptural elements.
We're calling them sALS to harken back to the naval
history of Beverly. They'll be lit from below, so we
can sort of have we can create movement with light
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and just you know, set the tone for as you
walk into the theater.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So this is not your average theater. This is this
is above board This is spectacle.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
This is spectacle.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
This is really the intent behind what we're doing now
is to really ignite Cabot Street, to ignite downtown Beverly,
to ex people to sort of come into town and
want to be there, whether you're coming to the theater,
it just come into some of the great restaurants we
have around us. It's just going to make it an
exciting place to be.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So I've come into the lobby and now come.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Into the lobby and you see this beautifully restored lobby
which has this really long bar where you can get popcorn,
you can get candy. It really evokes an old movie theater.
I mean, that's where you feel you are. So it'll
bring you back to your childhood.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
All right, this is a tough question, okay, and I
want to know. This is what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Okay, how much is beer there?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Beer?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Well, it's funny, you say, is that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Like going to a ballgame where it's I don't know,
what is it? Eighteen bucks a beer?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I will say, it's not as bad as going to
a ballgame. It's not as bad as going to most
venues around here. But a beard if you get a
twenty four ounce beer. It's going to cost you fourteen
dollars twenty four ounces twenty but that's pretty good size beer.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's yes, it is. It'd be cool if you had
an option for poor people.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
You can you can get pbe are five bucks Miller.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Lite leave it's not five, but I think we do
it for for eight. And maybe we have two venues.
I actually haven't talked about off cab it. We have
a smaller one hundred and fifty seat venue.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Special I could, I could maybe special dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
You come in and you say Bradley j And you
can get a PBR for eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
First four people, okay, and you have a full bar
for fancy cocktails and.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Full bar for fancy cocktails. Yes, right, and that yeah. Yeah,
So it's it's it's really you come to the theater.
You're there to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, now, key question. Can you take your drink in
the theater?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You can take your drink in the theater.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Oh and then if they spill it on the seats,
you're just gonna say, that's the price of doing business.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
That's the price of doing business. We have people who
come in and clean up the floors. They're concrete floors
in the seats, carpet in the aisles, but under the
seats is concrete, so easy.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
To mop up.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And okay, uh, you know steam cleaners for the seats.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh good, that's a very that's very important. Yeah, you
don't want to get it to smell stinky.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
We don't. You will not know that people are drinking
bringing drinks in there.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Smell that new house smell.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
It's I don't know if it has a new house smell.
It's one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Let me see, so we now are entering into the theater,
entering into the theater itself.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yes, and what do we feel and see? And here?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So you walk into this theater and you are taken
back to the nineteen twenties. It is uh, well, the
seats are brand new, seats even have cup holds, so
but it sort of keeps the same field.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Cushiony seats are high.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
They are cushiony seats.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
They're very nice.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Armrests, they have armrests.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
They have cushion armrests, so not like fabric cushiony, but
not you know, not just car level exactly exactly good.
So you go in, you see there's beautiful murals painted
on the wall, some of which are original to the building,
some of which were added by the Magic Company, but
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they blend in perfectly with the building.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Up above, as.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You look up, there's a gorgeous chandelier that's lit in
different colors and it's just it's a giant round chandelier
and this giant round, recessed cove up in the ceiling beautiful.
You look toward the stage, there's several different arches that
come in. So the presidium arch is like the main
arch of the theater, which most you know, all theaters
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have that, but ours is sort of you know, there's
the presidium march on the stage, and then you come
out twenty feet and there's another arch, and that entire
area is done with with just really ornate plaster work,
and there's this sort of you know, these really sort
of Greek esque Romanesque paintings, really Greek murals that are
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painted all on the walls that are just stunning and
have been beautifully restored.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Okay, now, Beverly or entire north Shore, an entire group
of people, within the sound of my voice, how do
you not go to the Cabbit Theater? Now that you
know what an exquisite experience it's going to be. It's
not just a theater, pretty clearly, it's quite it's like
a destination.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
It is a destination.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
After this, we're going to talk to Gary and Beverly,
who clearly knows what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I'm guessing maybe he has a question.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And then we get to the key information who is
going to be playing there, and that's coming up on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You know what everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Everybody wants something cool to do that doesn't cost an
arm in a leg, and we are providing you with that.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We are letting you know about the.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Cabot Theater which has been wildly and freshly renovated to
be a real experience. And before we go to Gary
and talk more to our guest, Brian Rodolph of the
executive director, I want to note that a previous guest,
a guest from last week, David Bieber, who is a
cultural archivist and has everything.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He has everything.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He has displays on cultural stuff like rock and roll
stuff at the Verb Hotel where they even have banned
themes room like the car's room. He I understand maybe
putting a display up there to add to the cultural
significance of the Cabin Theater. Now, Brian, if you'll allow
(32:21):
me to go to Gary and Beverly, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Hi. Gary, you're on WBZ with Brian and Brad. How
you doing?
Speaker 7 (32:29):
How are you doing there?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Guy?
Speaker 7 (32:31):
How are you doing good? Yeah? I'm I'm actually from Beverly.
I I grew up with the Cabin Cinema.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
I was there as an usher as a kid, as
an at sixteen.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah. I used to walk around the flashlight and keep
telling you to keep keep their feets off the chairs.
And that was the That was the year I spent
the whole month watching Jaws because it was playing at
the Capital Cinema for a longest a month.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I've had a similar experience, I I do was an usher.
Actually it was the Strand Theater in Dover, New Hampshire.
Not only was I one, I was sure I did everything.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
This exactly, And I know.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
The feeling of seeing a movie what seems like a
million times saw whatever that movie was with Robbie Benson
jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Like oh, yeah, yeah, fourteen times.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I can't think of the movie.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
I'm glad that. I'm glad to keep in the Cabin
Simmer alive, you know, I mean lagrinded David came out
for so long and then you know, if Everie took
it over and kept kept it going.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
You know, so you have to tell the kids to
be quiet, right, you have to say hey, hey, oh yeah, yeah,
that never one. I'm sure you've you caught some people
doing more than putting their feet on the seats as well.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Oh yeah, oh no, actually no, I mean back in
those days, it wasn't too bad. I mean taking the
shoes off of a sock or something. But I mean
it wasn't really you know, nothing really super league bad
or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
But okay, I've heard some stories about first dates that happened.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Right, yeah, yeah, people smoke.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I got gotta kick out.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I mean, not if we see them, you're under you're
under oath, yes, not if we see them.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I feel bad.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I feel bad. I feel bad for the guy who
took over the cabin sima uh with Grand David, because
they they had to paint all those bricks on the building,
and one by one, you know they painted all the
bricks from the building years ago. Yeah, individually, that's.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah, that's been that's I think we kind of covered
that up with just one giant coat of paint.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
That was before I got there.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
All right, Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Very much. It's good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Now we need to use the remaining time to have
you tell us who's coming there, when they're coming.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Who's coming. Well, So.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
The first big show we we reopened on September fifteenth,
and we're very excited about that show. We were there's
some question whether or not we're going to be able
to open, but we have the renowned Steve Winwood. Really
that's going to be our first show back. Like I said,
that's the fifteenth of September. That show is unfortunately sold out,
(35:06):
but that's one of the shows. If you were a member,
you would have gotten tickets to that show. If you
weren't a member, you probably didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
How much is a membership?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
You can you can get membership starting at one hundred
and seventy five dollars and they go all the way
up to twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Do you get anything else?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
So you get second membership starting at sixty dollars. I
apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
And do you get discounts on anything else? On popcorn?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
You get you get discounts on popcorn, you get free movies,
you have discounts we'll do only only if they mentioned Bradley,
you'll get Occasionally we'll have a show that you know,
we'll just we'll say, hey, let's give some members tickets
and we'll say, who wants to come see this show,
and so you can get some free shows as well.
(35:47):
So it really is it's a it's a great benefit.
It's a great membership to have. The key benefit really
is early access to the show. So if you wanted
to see Steve Winwood, you would have gone.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What happens if like somebody doesn't show up and there's
an empty seat, can they walk up?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
You know, if somebody waits around long enough, can they
get in?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Or just no, no no no.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
So if we won't we don't double sell tickets. But
a lot of times what will happen is somebody will
call us up last minute and say I'm not going
to be able to make this show.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
We give them a.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Basically a tax credit for the price of their tickets,
and then we'll put those tickets back on sale, but
not if you just don't show up. If you call
us and let us know, we'll resell that ticket at
ticket price.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
We don't resell above face value.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Steve Winwood, Okay, Steve Winwood is coming up. Whoever.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
September eighteenth, we have the Red Hot Chili Pipers come in.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Not peppers, but pipers.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
These are bagpipers that play rock and roll sounds sounds
kind of strange. I've seen them many times. It is
an exciting, high energy show. Well worth coming to see it.
How many bag pipers I believe there's seven of them,
but I may be.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Off by a pipe.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
They have a drum or anything.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
They have a whole band. Yeah, they have a whole band.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
So there's guitars and guitars are on drumspace and electric pipes.
So I guess picture ac DC with instead of one
bag with thunderstruck.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Is one of their big course, of course it is, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
And then I mentioned we have this smaller venue off
Cabot we have We do a lot of comedy there.
We have Brian Pushane coming up, great comedian, he'll be there.
Back over at the Cabot, we have Sean Cassidy coming
in in September, Zeppelin Reimagined, a wonderful Zeppelin cover band.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Blues Traveler is going to.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Be in Travelers Still out There.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Blues Travelers Still out There.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
They're they're coming in their first time at the Cabot
and that show is actually sold out as well, So
maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that one. But we have
The Evil Dead in concerts. If you like the movie
The Evil Dead, you come and see a movie live
band on stage playing the score right alongside the theater.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
We have Almost Queen is coming in for the kids.
We have Puppy.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Palace Live, great show with live animals that are coming in.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
With Almost Queen, a Queen tribute band, Almost.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Queens exactly Queen a great Queen tribute band, very good.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
We do you know we still show movies, So we
have Peewee's Big Adventure that we're going to be showing.
You Mean Girls is coming in show coming in called
Otel and Friends. O'tell played h with the Dead and
Friends band and he's played with just Melvin Seals and
(38:30):
it's it's gonna be a great, great show.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, that's that's good. Good place to stop. Thank you,
so much for coming all the way into the studio.
I really appreciate that. Brian Rodolpho, executive director of the
very special Cabin Theater, all refurbed and ready to go
a real destination for you. Something to do? Hey, honey,
what should we do tonight? I know, let's go to
the Kabby Theater. See you with the Cabot all right
(38:52):
now coming up, I we have a a horror movie
star coming up. We go to talk about the Silver
Scream convention, and then after she departs, we will just
resume discussion about what would you do this time if
COVID came back?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
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