 The auditorium was host to many talents of the music world, the stage and television, including an Irving Berlin musical road show in the 1920s.In the 1950s and 1960s, telethons were held in the auditorium.These telethons attracted Hollywood stars to Albany, including most of the cast of "Bonanza", "Wagon Train", "The Virginian" and starlet Jayne Mansfield.