Editing Century 21 Exposition (section)

===World of Entertainment===
A US$15 million performing-arts program at the fair ranged from a [[boxing]] championship to an international [[twirling]] competition but with no shortage of nationally and internationally famous performers, especially at the new Opera House and Playhouse.<ref>''Official Guide Book'', pp. 98–99.</ref> After the fair, the Playhouse became the [[Seattle Repertory Theatre]]; in the mid-1980s it became the [[Intiman Playhouse]].<ref>[http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=156511937 Summary for 201 Mercer ST / Parcel ID 1988200440 / Inv # CTR008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520174152/http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=156511937 |date=May 20, 2011 }}, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Accessed online October 19, 2007.</ref> When the Intiman Theatre became financially unstable, [[Cornish College of the Arts]] took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jacobson |first=Lynn |date=May 6, 2013 |title=New Name, Same Theater at Seattle Center |url=http://blogs.seattletimes.com/artspage/2013/05/06/new-name-same-theater-at-seattle-center/ |work=The Seattle Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229080128/http://blogs.seattletimes.com/artspage/2013/05/06/new-name-same-theater-at-seattle-center/ |archive-date=December 29, 2013 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}</ref>

====Opera House performances====
Scheduled groups performing at the Opera House included:
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<small>Source:<ref>''Official Guide Book'', pp. 100–103.</ref></small>
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! Date (all dates are 1962)
! Act
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|April 21||Opening Night: [[Seattle Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by guest conductor [[Igor Stravinsky]] with [[Van Cliburn]] as a guest soloist
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|April 22–25||''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', live telecasts
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|April 20 – May 5||[[Joseph Dunninger|Dunninger the Mentalist]]
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|May 6||The Littlest Circus
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|May 8–12||The [[San Francisco Ballet]]
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|May 13||Science Fiction Panel including [[Ray Bradbury]] and [[Rod Serling]]
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|May 15–16||Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by [[Milton Katims]], with guest soloists [[Isaac Stern]], [[Adele Addison]], and Albert DaCosta
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|May 17–19||[[Victor Borge]]
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|May 22||[[Theodore Bikel]]
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|May 24–25||The [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] conducted by [[Eugene Ormandy]]
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|May 29 – June 3||The [[Old Vic]] Company ([[Shakespeare]] performances)
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|June 7, June 9,<br /> June 11||Seattle Symphony production of [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi's]] ''[[Aida]]'', featuring [[Gloria Davy]], [[Sandor Konya]], [[Irene Dalis]], [[Robert Merrill]], and [[Jan Rubeš]]
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|June 10||[[Josh White]]
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|June 17||Norwegian Chorus and Dancers
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|June 18–19||Ukrainian State Dance Company (U.S. premiere)
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|June 22–23||International Gospel Quartets
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|July 8||[[Barbershop Harmony Society|SPEBSQSA]] Barbershop Quartet Song Fest
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|July 9–14||[[Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company|Bayanihan Dancers of the Philippines]]
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|July 24 – August 4||[[New York City Ballet]] Company
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|August 27 – September 2||[[Ballet Folklorico de Mexico]]
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|September 10||[[CBC Radio Orchestra|CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra]]
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|September 18–23||[[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] ([[Gilbert and Sullivan]] [[operetta]]s)
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|September 25–30||Rapsodia Romîna: Romanian National Folk Ensemble and Barbu Lăutaru Orchestra of Bucharest (U.S. premiere)
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|October 2–7||[[Uday Shankar]] Dancers
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|October 8–13||Foo-Hsing Theater (Republic of China), youth [[Chinese opera]]
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|October 14||[[United States Marine Band|U.S. Marine Corps Band]]
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|October 16–17||Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Milton Katims, world premiere of new work by Gerald Kechley
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====Other performances====
[[File:Les Poupées de Paris Marty Krofft 1962.jpg|thumb|190px|[[Marty Krofft]] displays the puppets of ''[[Les Poupées de Paris]]'' backstage]]
Events and performances at the Playhouse included Sweden's [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]]; a chamber music performance by [[Isaac Stern]], [[Milton Katims]], [[Leonard Rose]], [[Eugene Istomin]], the Claiborne Brothers gospel quartet, and the [[Juilliard String Quartet]]; two appearances by newsman [[Edward R. Murrow]]; [[Bunraku]] theater; [[Richard Dyer-Bennet]]; [[Hal Holbrook]]'s solo show as [[Mark Twain]]; the [[Count Basie]] and [[Benny Goodman]] jazz orchestras; [[Lawrence Welk]]; [[Nat King Cole]]; and [[Ella Fitzgerald]]. Also during the fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the [[Ringling Brothers Circus]], [[Tommy Bartlett|Tommy Bartlett's]] Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, [[Roy Rogers]] and [[Dale Evans]]'  Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist [[Billy Graham]].<ref>''Official Guide Book'', pp. 104–109.</ref>

The fair and the city were the setting of the [[Elvis Presley]] movie ''[[It Happened at the World's Fair]]'' (1963), with a young [[Kurt Russell]] making his first screen appearance. Location shooting began on September 4 and concluded nearly two weeks later. The film would be released the following spring, long after the fair had ended.