Gammage Auditorium is ASU’s multi-functional performing arts facility, designed by renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s one of Tempe’s most treasured landmarks and has been renovated for your enjoyment, so you might want to mark the 2014-2015 season’s lineup of shows on your calendar.
2014-15 Special Engagements
CHICAGO — March 27-29, 2015
WICKED — August 26, 2015 – October 4, 2015
2014-15 Broadway Season
PIPPIN — December 2-7, 2014
JOSEPH and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — January 13-18, 2015
DIRTY DANCING — February 17-22, 2015
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA – – March 10-15, 2015
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL — April 21-26, 2015
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA — May 27, 2015 – June 7, 2015
KINKY BOOTS — September 16-21, 2015
And not to be missed….
Warren Miller No Turning Back — December 12, 2014
The Forgotten Carols — December 23, 2014
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS — December 26, 2014
Celtic Woman 10th Anniversary Celebration — May 19, 2015
Did you know: The Gammage Auditorium was originally a design for an opera house to be built in Baghdad, Iraq?
ASU President, Grady Gammage, called on his close friend, Frank Lloyd Wright, back in 1957 to design a unique university auditorium. The work was accomplished in the last two years of Wright’s life with the finishing designs completed by his aide, William Welsey Peters.
Sad to say, neither Wright nor Peters lived to see the completed design that stands 80 feet high and measures 300 by 250 feet with two pedestrian bridges extending 200 feet like welcoming arms. The 3,000-seat performance hall has three levels of seating, with the furthest seat only 115 feet from the stage. So all seats are great seats!
The Gammage Auditorium is located on the ASU Campus at 1200 S. Forest Avenue in Tempe.
