The Mahaffey Theater has been part of the downtown St. Petersburg landscape since 1965, although it’s changed considerably in appearance and stature. For 22 years, it was a boxy little part of the city’s ambitious ($5 million in early ’60s money) Bayfront Center complex, attached at the hip to a 7,000-seat arena where families gathered to see Holiday on Ice, the Lipizzaner Stallions and the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus, where sports fans cheered on the Tampa Bay Rowdies, and where the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and the Grateful Dead attracted massive amounts of screaming fans. All the big “adult” spectacle acts – Elvis, Liberace and Lawrence Welk – performed in the big hall, too, which everyone referred to as simply the Bayfront Center.
The Bayfront Theater, as the Mahaffey was known, was reserved for smaller crowds (the original venue had slightly fewer than 2,000 seats) and more sophisticated entertainment like orchestras, operas and ballets.
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Kara Goldberg has known she wanted to work in the theater since she was 10 years old. Since then, she has realized her dreams in countless forms. She studied Theatre Arts at St. Augustine's Flagler College and eventually returned to her hometown of St. Petersburg to build her career. Currently, she works as the Marketing Associate for American Stage Theatre Company, and is building her own company on the side, the Lost & Found Production Co., a resource for theater artists like herself.
Singers, bands, comedians and orchestras have been gracing the Mahaffey Theater stage since its opening in 1965. With more than 2,000 seats in the Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater, attendees can have an intimate experience and a clear view of their favorite performers from any angle. Audiences have enjoyed legendary performers, including Diana Ross, Jerry Seinfeld and Tony Bennett, since the theater’s latest renovation and management change in 2011.
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