Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating a city that changed the course of music history with it’s role in the inception of Jazz as well as being the home to several heritage Opera and Ballet companies these items represent the history of music and theater in Kansas City. Sarah Bernhardt as Camille at Convention Hall, the Count Basie Orchestra, and a girl named Billie Cassin are all subjects that resonate with lovers of music and theater history. During the vaudeville era the most famous stage actors in the world travelled by train alongside the contortionists and exotic dancers who worked for the circuits which had the