Viewers will be able to go behind the scenes of Music Hall’s historic, $143 million renovation when CET debuts the documentary “Cincinnati Music Hall: The Next Movement,” 9 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 16) on CET.

Encore broadcasts will continue on CET and its sister channel CET Arts through November, including 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 19 on CET and 9 p.m. Nov. 20 on CET Arts. (See the full schedule at cetconnect.org/musichall.)

The documentary takes the viewer from the initial demolition  after the May Festival ended in May, 2016, to the opening weekend last month.

In an interview earlier this fall, CET-TV documentary co-producers Don Hancock and Richard Wonderling said they aimed to film the construction site in all its grittiness, with dust and sparks, which would then dissolve away as people in opening-night attire arrived at the hall on opening night.

Above all, they tried to convey the special place that Music Hall holds in the hearts of generations of Cincinnati citizens, and its importance in the city’s historic and cultural life.

“Don and I needed a beauty shot of the grand chandelier in Springer Auditorium. We went up to the gallery and it was so silent – there was no one else in the house. It was almost spiritual. Just this pervading sense of beauty and tradition that stretched across time – across generations. Magnificent things happen at Music Hall, you just felt that. Vividly,” Wonderling said.

John Kiesewetter’s Media Beat review of the 60-minute documentary describes some of their fascinating discoveries as they filmed the 16-month project.