The Old Globe in downtown San Diego's Balboa Park earned the 1984 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, capping a theatrical tradition that dates to its construction for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition. Three stages — the 600-seat flagship Old Globe Theatre, the 250-seat Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in the round, and the 605-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre — share a Balboa Park arts corridor with Casa del Prado Theatre. More than 20 productions developed here have transferred to Broadway or Off Broadway, collecting 13 Tony Awards and multiple nominations, including the 2014 Best Musical winner A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Built as a replica of Shakespeare's London Globe, the theater was destroyed by arson in March 1978, rebuilt by 1982, and struck by a second arson fire in 1984 that leveled the outdoor festival stage before the Lowell Davies replacement rose in 1985. A $30 million annual operating budget funds 15 productions per season — Shakespeare, new-work commissions, and the perennial holiday run of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! — drawing over 250,000 visitors to the same Balboa Park cultural cluster that includes Museum of Us. Full-scale world-premiere musical commissions with original scores, multi-week technical rehearsals, and Broadway-bound creative teams represent the Globe's most resource-intensive undertakings.