In N.Y., there’s an animated interest in Disney Hall

Interest in the Walt Disney Concert Hall is rapidly growing in New York, especially now that the Guggenheim Museum no longer plans its own imposing Frank Gehry-designed addition in Lower Manhattan.

“When were you last in the mouse house?” a colleague recently asked a visiting critic.

Mouse house!

With CalArts having named its black-box theater in the structure REDCAT (for Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) and planning a red cat as its logo, the witty mouse house nickname can’t help but catch on.

At least it beats the Ralphs/Food-4-Less Foundation Auditorium moniker overeager Music Center fund-raisers have already stuck on that glorious room in which the Los Angeles Philharmonic will play. In fact, why not make it official and dub Maushaus as a new school of post-Bauhaus L.A. architecture?

-- Mark Swed