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The Iowa Theatre Building, home of Theatre Cedar Rapids, opened on February 26th, 2010 to a black tie audience that filled the house.  TCR staff have put together some incredible videos of the work involved with restoring and updating the building.  The TCR team has done an incredible job of restoring some of the original [...]

Just shy of 1 month following the dramatic removal of the Paramount’s 1928 Wurlitzer Balaban 1A theatre organ console, CRATOS and CRBI coordinated another rescue effort.  This time it was the 1928 Rhinestone Barton console from Theatre Cedar Rapids (formerly the Iowa Theatre).
The Barton console was damaged by the floodwaters, but the impact to the organ was [...]