Welcome to the Beshore Performance Hall, an intimate but dynamic 400-seat indoor proscenium theater in Joplin, MO. Opened last November, this May, the hall was further updated with the arrival of a DiGiCo Quantum225 console for the venue’s front-of-house audio, installed by locally-based Total Electronics Contracting (TEC).
No, Joplin, MO wasn’t named for ragtime genius Scott Joplin, though even the city’s website acknowledges that common misconception. But JoMo, as some call it, still has plenty of musical heft to it, and it now has even more, with last November’s opening of the new $19-million, 37,000-square-foot Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex. Within lies the Beshore Performance Hall, whose tiered seating can be converted into a flat floor configuration as needed. Most strikingly, the Hall includes a shared stage for both indoor and outdoor performances and has been designed to be as multifunctional as possible to accommodate and promote all types of activities, including concerts.
