KANSAS CITY, Missouri ( KMBC ) -- Staff at the historic Folly Theater are cleaning up after a costly and frustrating break-in that left the 125-year-old downtown landmark badly damaged.

Police say vandals broke into the nonprofit theater early Friday morning, smashing through the ADA entrance and wreaking havoc inside the building.

“They smashed our ADA door and went into the building,” said Cassidy Manetta, the theater’s marketing manager. “They broke a bunch of our monitors and deployed six or seven fire extinguishers, which is really what caused the most damage because it got into our HVAC system.”

The thick residue from the extinguishers spread through the entire facility, forcing the cancellation of this weekend’s scheduled show.

Crews expect cleanup to take at least a week and

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