The boys played with the Youth Honors Orchestra here taking advantage of the remarkable natural acoustics of the building.  A musty smell hangs in the air, thread bare velvet seats tell of audiences gone by, plaster is cracked and paper and gilding peeling from the walls.  A once grand place is loosing the battle with time.  Locals are making a valiant effort to find dollars to save it.

Roll the clock ahead about 15 years and throw in some $18 million dollars and today re-enter the Lerner Theatre as it was in 1924.  Magnificent, mushroom chandelier and all.