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Orpheum Circuit, Inc
Orpheum is a name often used for theatres or other entertainment venues. It may refer to: Theatres *Orpheum Circuit, a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters Australia * Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Cremorne, Sydney, New South Wales Canada *Orpheum (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia Germany * Orpheum Dresden Malta *Orpheum Theatre (Malta) United States * Orpheum Theater (Flagstaff, Arizona) * Orpheum Theatre (Phoenix, Arizona) *Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), California * Palace Theatre (Los Angeles), formerly Orpheum Theatre *Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco), California * Orpheum Theatre (Champaign, Illinois) * Orpheum Theater (Galesburg) Illinois * Hotel Mississippi-RKO Orpheum Theater, Davenport, Iowa * Orpheum Theatre (Sioux City, Iowa) * Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) * Orpheum Theater (New Orleans) *Orpheum Theatre (Boston), Massachusetts * Orpheum Theatre (New Bedford, Massachusetts) * NorShor Theatre or Orpheum Theatre, Duluth, Minnesota *Orpheum Theatre (Minn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Circuit
The Orpheum Circuit was a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters. It was founded in 1886, and operated through 1927 when it was merged into the Keith-Albee-Orpheum corporation, ultimately becoming part of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) corporation. History Early history (1886–1893) The Orpheum Circuit was started by the vaudeville impresario Gustav Walter, who opened the Orpheum Opera House in San Francisco in June 1887. This first Orpheum seated 3500 and quickly became one of the most popular theaters in San Francisco attracting a wide variety of people. The Orpheum's tickets were scaled to draw a mixed audience. Customers bought tickets to the Orpheum because of its diverse program that ranged from knockabout comedy to opera. It drew a late-night crowd since it was the only theater open late with performances lasting until two in the morning. The Orpheum's shows were advertised to appeal to "elite audiences" and were "suitable for refined young ladies". One reporter noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Boston)
The Orpheum Theatre is a music venue located at 1 Hamilton Place in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the oldest theaters in the United States as designed by Snell and Gregerson, it was built in 1852 and was originally known as the Boston Music Hall. It was the founding location of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1867 and it was the original home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from its founding in 1880. The concert hall was converted for use as a vaudeville theater in 1900. It was renamed the Orpheum Theatre in 1906. In 1915, the Orpheum was acquired by Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Loew's Theatres and substantially rebuilt. It operates as a mixed-use hall, primarily for live music concerts. The theater has no connection with a different venue in Boston that operated as the Music Hall during 1962–1980, now known as the Wang Theatre. History When the Boston Symphony moved to Symphony Hall in 1900, the Boston Music Hall closed. It was converted in 1900 to a design by Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey City Medical Center
The Jersey City Medical Center is a hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. The hospital has had different facilities in the city. It is currently located on a 15-acre campus at Grand Street and Jersey Avenue overlooking New York Harbor and Liberty State Park. The campus includes three facilities: the Wilzig Hospital, the Provident Bank Ambulatory Center, and the Cristie Kerr Women's Health Center. The hospital serves as a regional referral and teaching hospital. Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) is a teaching affiliate and a member of Americas Essential Hospitals. History The hospital began as the "Jersey City Charity Hospital" at the foot of Washington St. in Paulus Hook on December 15, 1868. In 1882, the Jersey City Board of Alderman bought land at an elevated location at Baldwin Avenue and Montgomery Street for a new hospital. The site was chosen to remove the hospital from the increasing industrial development on the waterfront at Paulus Hook. The new 200-bed facility open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Foundation For The Advancement Of Young Soloists
Orpheum is a name often used for theatres or other entertainment venues. It may refer to: Theatres *Orpheum Circuit, a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters Australia * Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Cremorne, Sydney, New South Wales Canada *Orpheum (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia Germany * Orpheum Dresden Malta *Orpheum Theatre (Malta) United States * Orpheum Theater (Flagstaff, Arizona) *Orpheum Theatre (Phoenix, Arizona) *Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), California *Palace Theatre (Los Angeles), formerly Orpheum Theatre *Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco), California * Orpheum Theatre (Champaign, Illinois) * Orpheum Theater (Galesburg) Illinois * Hotel Mississippi-RKO Orpheum Theater, Davenport, Iowa * Orpheum Theatre (Sioux City, Iowa) * Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) *Orpheum Theater (New Orleans) *Orpheum Theatre (Boston), Massachusetts * Orpheum Theatre (New Bedford, Massachusetts) * NorShor Theatre or Orpheum Theatre, Duluth, Minnesota *Orpheum Theatre (Minneap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Children's Science Museum
The Orpheum Theater opened in Champaign, Illinois in 1914 on the site of a vaudeville theater built in 1904. Designed by the architectural firm Rapp & Rapp, the Orpheum (also known as The New Orpheum) was built to accommodate both live vaudeville performances and the projection of film. After a series of renovations and changes of ownership, the Orpheum screened its final film in 1986. Preserved from demolition in 1991, the Orpheum is now home to a children's museum, the Orpheum Children's Science Museum, and is undergoing restoration. Design and construction One of the earliest examples of movie theater architecture, the Orpheum is an early design by the prolific architectural firm Rapp and Rapp, a firm that would later design many famous American "Movie Palaces" in the first decades of the twentieth century. George Leslie Rapp, an 1899 alumnus of the University of Illinois School of Architecture, with his brother Corneilus, founded the firm of Rapp & Rapp. They designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Madison, Wisconsin)
The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater built in the 1920s as a movie palace in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, located one block from the Wisconsin State Capitol. In 2008 the Orpheum was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Madison's best surviving representative of the movie palace era. History Prior to 1900, a "theater" was usually a place to see live entertainment: vaudeville, opera or live music. A good example in Madison was the Fuller Opera House, built in 1890 at 5-10 West Mifflin. Motion pictures arrived around 1900. They were initially shown in stores and warehouses, and often called "nickelodeons" because a ticket cost five cents. The Fuller Opera added the new motion pictures to its schedule, and other movie/vaudeville theaters were built: the Majestic Theater at 115 King St. in 1906 and the Amuse Theater at 16 E. Mifflin in 1910. In 1909 the Grand Theater at 204-206 State St was built specifically for motion pictures. The new motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Memphis)
The Orpheum Theatre, a 2,308-seat venue listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on the southwest corner of the intersection of South Main and Beale streets. The Orpheum, along with the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, compose the Orpheum Theatre Group, a community-supported nonprofit corporation that operates and maintains the venues and presents education programs. Entertainment and Community Programming Since 1977, the Orpheum has been the Mid-South home of touring Broadway productions. The Orpheum's two venues also host performances by Ballet Memphis, various concerts, comedians, a summer movie series, a family series of educational programs, and local cultural and community events such as Memphis in May, International Blues Challenge, and special Elvis Week events. These performances, along with the theater's numerous educational offerings, are an integral component of the continued revitalization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theater (Sioux Falls)
The Orpheum Theater (historically spelled Orpheum Theatre), formerly the Sioux Falls Community Playhouse, is a historic theater at 315 North Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. It is the oldest theater in Sioux Falls and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Originally, it hosted vaudeville performances, and briefly served as a movie theater before being converted again into a stage theater, which it remains today. With History Establishment and vaudeville The Orpheum Theatre was founded by Frank and Lawrence Solari (operating as the Solari Brothers). It was built over a period of several weeks in 1913 for a total price of $63,200 and officially opened on October 2 of that year. The theater mainly booked vaudeville acts during this period, most of which came in from Chicago or New York City. Notable performers at the Orpheum included Jack Benny; Stan Laurel; Edgar Bergen; Eddie Foy Sr. and his children, the Seven Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Manhattan)
The Orpheum Theatre, formerly Player's Theatre, is a 299-seat off-Broadway theatre on Second Avenue near the corner of St. Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City. The theatre is owned by Liberty Theatres, a subsidiary of Reading International, which also owns Minetta Lane Theatre. There may have been a concert garden on the site as early as the 1880s, but there was a theatre there by 1904. During the heyday of Yiddish theatre in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, the venue was the Player's Theatre, and was part of the " Jewish Rialto" along Second Avenue. By the 1920s, the theatre was exhibiting films, but was converted back to dramatic use in 1958, with the first production, '' Little Mary Sunshine'', opening in November 1959. Significant productions include the revival and revamping of Cole Porter's musical ''Anything Goes'' in 1962, ''Your Own Thing'' in 1968, '' The Me Nobody Knows'' in 1970, ''The Cocktail Party'' in 1980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Omaha)
The Orpheum Theater is a theater located in Omaha, Nebraska. The theater hosts programs best served by a more theatrical setting, including the Omaha Performing Arts Broadway Season, presented with Broadway Across America, and Opera Omaha's season. The theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main auditorium is a proscenium theater known as "Slosburg Hall". The theater has a theatre organ, made by Wurlitzer. History The current site of the building was previously home to the "Creighton Theater". John A. McShane organized a stock company to build the original theater in 1895. The architects for the original theater were Fisher & Lawrie and the general contractors were Rocheford & Gould. Paxton and Vierling installed the iron curtain that weighed 11 tons. The theater was named after John A. Creighton, a local philanthropist, and a large portrait of Count Creighton decorated the proscenium arch. The Creighton Theater was eventually added to the Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theater (St
Orpheum is a name often used for theatres or other entertainment venues. It may refer to: Theatres *Orpheum Circuit, a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters Australia * Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Cremorne, Sydney, New South Wales Canada *Orpheum (Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia Germany * Orpheum Dresden Malta *Orpheum Theatre (Malta) United States * Orpheum Theater (Flagstaff, Arizona) * Orpheum Theatre (Phoenix, Arizona) *Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), California *Palace Theatre (Los Angeles), formerly Orpheum Theatre *Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco), California * Orpheum Theatre (Champaign, Illinois) * Orpheum Theater (Galesburg) Illinois * Hotel Mississippi-RKO Orpheum Theater, Davenport, Iowa * Orpheum Theatre (Sioux City, Iowa) * Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) * Orpheum Theater (New Orleans) *Orpheum Theatre (Boston), Massachusetts * Orpheum Theatre (New Bedford, Massachusetts) * NorShor Theatre or Orpheum Theatre, Duluth, Minnesota *Orpheum Theatre (Minne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpheum Theatre (Minneapolis)
The Orpheum Theatre is a historic theater located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so .... It is one of four restored theaters on Hennepin Avenue, along with the State Theatre (Minneapolis), State Theatre, the Pantages Theatre (Minneapolis), Pantages Theatre, and the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Shubert Theatre (now The Cowles Center). The building opened on October 16, 1921, originally named the Hennepin Theater, its first performers included the Marx Brothers with more than 70,000 guests attending the opening week run. Billed as the largest vaudeville house in the country when it opened, the Orpheum became a major outlet for such entertainers as Jack Benny, George Burns, and Fanny Brice. It also hosted big bands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
