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Rendering of theatre
   
   
March 10 , 2005 Guy Gsell, TRTC Managing Director; TRTC Board Member, Sen. Joseph Kyrillos; Ann Unterberg, Gala Chair; Jonathan Fox, TRTC Artistic Director; Robert Rechnitz, TRTC Founder and Executive Producer; Red Bank Mayor Edward J. McKenna, Jr.; Joan Rechnitz, TRTC Associate Producer; Stewart Jones, Principal Architect; TRTC Board President, Mary Carol Stunkel; Ben Lucarelli, Project Manager; and Joseph Torcivia Torcon Construction.
   
   
March 10 , 2005 Robert Rechnitz, TRTC Founder and Executive Producer, recites a humorous, original poem to the ribbon cutting audience, stating in part: “To those of you who stand before this edifice, may this theatre become an addiction…and may you cough up half your winnings at the track and pledge 10 percent of your long-term gains in its support.”
   
   
March 10 , 2005 TRTC Managing Director, Guy Gsell, addresses the audience of over 250 theatre supporters who attended the ribbon cutting in Red Bank.
   
   
March 10, 2005 Lisa Fardella, TRTC Director of Audience Services, sells the first ticket from the new box office to Gold Patron Anthony Forlini.
   
   
February 16, 2005 The main stage with the first two seats of the front row installed.
   
   
February 16 , 2005 TRTC's Marion Huber Theater, a 99-seat "black box" performance space, will have adjustable seating.
   
   
January 17, 2005 The 40-foot high glass-curtain lobby wall has been installed. The heat is on. The anticipation is up.
   
December 8, 2004 Almost like the artist's rendering above!
   
October 26, 2004 The superstructure of the lobby takes shape.



October 1, 2004



 

August 26, 2004

 


July 23, 2004




The walls and insulation are appearing and the steel structure is slowly disappearing.



June 11, 2004




Workers pose on top of the fly tower, one of the highest points in Red Bank.



June 9, 2004



Looking down into the theater from high above in the fly loft. The metal structure at the top is the lighting grid, the semi-circles are where the seats will be placed, and the deep pit at bottom is the trap room area under what will be the wood floor of the stage.




June 2, 2004


Worker welding the back wall of the fly-loft.



May 14, 2004



The Topping Out Ceremony

Workers install the white beam signed by supportors of TRTC and local dignataries. The steel is up!



May 6, 2004




The curved beams indicate the levels of the tiers of seating in the main theatre.



April 20, 2004



March 31, 2004



The Steel Has Arrived!
Workers from Atlantic Steel Construction Company (a Red Bank firm) direct the assembly of 525 tons of structural steel. As the steel grows upward out of the foundation, we begin to see the sweep of the levels for the seating in the theatre.


February 9, 2004


Construction: In the background workers pour the last corner of the foundation for the Marion Huber Theater (our smaller, experimental theater), and in the foreground is part of the foundation for the thrust of the main stage.


December 16, 2003


Sixty-seven yards of concrete were required to pour the footings for the main stage proscenium arch and thrust.


November 21, 2003


October 2003


Construction Starts
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for photographs of the groundbreaking ceremony.


February 2003


Construction Documents Complete
July 2002

Construction Documents Begun
May 2001

Preliminary Design Complete
February 2001

Preliminary Design Begun
July 2000

Programming/Site Analysis Begun
July 2000 Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Hired