The Kimmel Center Catches Eagles Fever
Performing Arts Center takes Center Stage in National FOX NFL Broadcast
January 15, 2003
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will take center stage in the sports world this weekend when FOX Sports, in town to broadcast Sunday’s NFC Championship Game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, hosts a prime-time entertainment special from the glittering year-old performing arts center.
The Kimmel Center’s 650-seat Perelman Theater, which hosts intimate jazz, chamber music, theatrical performances and dance, will demonstrate its versatility when the venue is transformed for FOX NFL Saturday Night, featuring the FOX NFL SUNDAY team of James Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Jillian Barberie and Jimmy Kimmel and scheduled performers Ja Rule, Ashanti and Cedric the Entertainer.
FOX NFL Saturday Night is a private event and is not open to the public. All attendees are either invited guests of FOX Sports or winners of limited giveaways by WTXF, the local FOX-owned station. No tickets will be sold for this show. The program will air on FOX stations on Saturday, January 18 beginning at 9pm.
The $265 million Kimmel Center, which opened in December 2001, features the 2,500-seat Verizon Hall, the 650-seat Perelman Theater and the Merck Arts Education Center all enclosed beneath a 150-foot soaring glass ceiling. The Dorrance H. Hamilton Garden, located atop the Perelman Theater, affords fabulous views of South Philadelphia, including Veterans Stadium where the Eagles will play on Sunday.
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