The Orpheum Theater in

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is a Beaux-Arts style theater, built in 1917. It was constructed by local self-made millionaire Louis A. Cella and designed by architect Albert Lansburgh. The $500,000 theater opened on Labor Day, 1917, as a

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house. As vaudeville declined, it was sold to

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in 1930, and served as a movie theater until it closed in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the theater was restored and renamed to American Theater in the 1980s and was listed under that name on the

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in 1985. In 1993, the rock band

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played two concerts at the venue - one in April and the other in August - both of which were released in full on the band's 2017 live album '' St. Louis '93''. The theater was later sold to local businessmen Michael and Steve Roberts, who renamed it the Roberts Orpheum Theater. The Roberts brothers sold the theater in 2012, and it closed. The Chicago developer, UrbanStreet Group, plans to restore the theater.

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The theater was closed in 2012. However, new owners, Jubilee Group, purchased the building in 2017.

External links

* http://www.orpheum-theater.com/orpheum_theater_st_louis.php

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