Oct. 15, 1955: The new $1.5 million W.D. Packard Music Hall is dedicated.

Oct. 15, 1955: The new $1.5 million W.D. Packard Music Hall is dedicated.
January 1959: The hall becomes a disaster shelter as some 1,000 people in Warren's flats area are homeless in the city's worst flood since 1913.
September 1959: Robert Goulet stars with Dorothy Collins in "Dream Girl."
August 1960: Ginger Rogers stars in the John Kenley production of "Annie Get Your Gun;" Hugh Downs appears in "Anniversary Waltz."
June 1961: Zsa Zsa Gabor appears in "Blithe Spirit."
June 1962: Art Linkletter stars as "Father of the Bride" in a Kenley production.
August 1963: Three zany convicts steal laughs in Kenley's "My Three Angels," starring Gardner McKay and Mia Farrow.
June 1964: Allen Ludden and Betty White star in Kenley's "Critic's Choice."
June 1965: Eva Gabor sparks Kenley production of "Shot in the Dark."
July 1967: Mickey Rooney, Dom DeLuise and Joan Rivers star in "Luv."
October 1967: Variety reports John Kenley had an estimated gross of more than $1.2 million in a 12-week summer theater schedule.
June 1968: Kenley Players back Arthur Godfrey with fine talent in "Take Me Along."
July 1970: Kenley Players' "Man of LaMancha" is an all-time hit with Giorgio Tozzi and Marion Marlowe.
Sept. 22, 1973: Johnny Paycheck appears in concert.
December 1977: John Kenley decides to move the Kenley Players out of the hall. He moved them to Akron.
June 1984: A relative, Frank Kenley, briefly opens Theater of the Stars, bringing in Robert Goulet and Rosemary Clooney.
June 20, 1987: Lightning strikes the music hall, damaging a chimney and scattering bricks all over the parking lot.
January 1994: Faced with underutilization, music hall strains its budget.
Oct. 26, 1996: Reform Party Presidential candidate Ross Perot speaks to 1,000 at a campaign rally.
April 1998: Music hall adds an outdoor band shell, the first exterior addition since the hall was built.
August 1998: City officials get more money from W.D. Packard's $5 million trust fund to enhance the resident W.D. Packard Concert Band.
Sept. 11, 1998: Former first lady Barbara Bush speaks to a packed house.
January 1999: Christopher Stephenson, 34, named hall manager.
December 2000: City council approves budget with $75,000 subsidy for the hall.
March 2002: Audit makes 101 recommendations designed to save the hall $140,000 annually.
Oct. 6, 2004: Fitness guru Richard Simmons appears in the Trumbull Town Hall lecture series.
April 6, 2005: Actor Larry Hagman, star of "Dallas," speaks in the Trumbull Town Hall lecture series.
Sept. 12, 2005: Country music singer Crystal Gayle sells out the hall.
September 2005: Seven weeks of restroom and backstage dressing room renovations totaling $200,000 begin, thanks to a state grant and private funds.
Sources: Vindicator files and Packard Music Hall