Wells Fargo Pavilion, Sacramento

The Wells Fargo Pavilion is a theatre venue, located in Sacramento and owned by California Musical Theatre & Sacramento Theatre Company. The site is built on top of the original concrete foundations from the Music Circus tent. Music Circus was a theatre form begun in Lambertville, N.J., by St. John Terrell in 1949. Established as summer stock, the new theatre venues primarily housed light operas and operettas, produced in the round, under a circus-style big top. The original architect is R.F. McCann & Co. Construction for the new pavilion that was conceived in the early 2000's and opened to the public in the Summer of 2003. The structure consists of hard-sided walls with a soft covering, copying its silhouette from the old circus tent. The tent is a permanent structure covered with Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric without tent poles, which had previously obstructed the views of the stage.