Most Beautiful Touring Theatres
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/15
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#1
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:10am
What are the most beautiful theatres you have seen tours in?
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#2
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:12am
The Fox in St. Louis!
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Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#3
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:12am
The Fox in Atlanta!
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Updated On: 3/3/16 at 11:12 AMBroadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#5
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:16am
The Providence Performing Arts Center
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#6
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:18am
The (mostly identical) Fox theaters in St Louis and Detroit are both amazing. I can't imagine a more beautiful theater. That said... they're so very large, it's not super great seeing a show there.
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#7
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:18am
The Chicago theatres are gorgeous, especially the Oriental. I was always partial to the simplicity of Sarofim Hall at the Hobby Center in Houston (it has a fake skylight!) though it is GIANT compared to theatres with the same number of seats.
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#8
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:39am
http://www.jwoolf.com/portfolios/theaterinteriors/
Here's a link to a lot of the great old touring house interiors and lobbies.
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#10
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:52am
artscallion said: "http://www.jwoolf.com/portfolios/theaterinteriors/
Here's a link to a lot of the great old touring house interiors and lobbies."
Those are gorgeous! I haven't made it to many of the east coast theatres, so thanks for the link!
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#11
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:58am
The Pantages in Hollywood is also pretty great. Too bad about the neighborhood!
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#12
Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:58am
I'm not a huge fan of the Fox in St. Louis. It's a bit o over the top and pushes past opulence into the realm of gaudy. Doesn't it have that crazy raked floor in the lobby?
My favorite is the Oriental in Chicago. I notice something different or new every time I'm there (which is a LOT). I think I was in Sarofim once shortly after it was built for the Thoroughly Modern Millie tour and I loved it. I remember being pissed that they finally buit a beautiful new space after I moved to Chicago. I had worked at the Wortham and Jones Hall for 10 years.
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Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#13
Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:06pm
Fox in Atlanta is gorgeous. But it's huge. I sat in the balcony for Dreamgirls and felt like I was in another state. I felt so disconnected from the show.
There's a theater in Joliet, ILL that is gorgeous. A lot of non-union tours go there.
And a theater in el Paso.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#14
Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:21pm
I was in a majority of them over the years. Most of them were old movie palaces restored. Boston and other cities to their credit have saved some of them and restored them. NYC , to its shame, has torn them all down in Times Square and around the city.
Joliet's theater is the Rialto Square . There is also the Coronado in Rockford Illinois
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#15
Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:21pm
The theatre in Joliet is the Rialto square theatre. It's like a mini version of the Chicago theatre. Although these theatres don't host many touring shows I think the auditorium, Coronado(Rockford), and paramount(aurora) theatres are all beautiful. I also have to agree with the oriental. The ceiling is so beautiful in there.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#16
Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:26pm
The Oriental had a lot of things removed when these theaters sold off many of their furnishings so the Oriental looked even better back when it opened. I was in it before it was restored and it was really showing its age.
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Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#17
Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:49pm
Pantages in Los Angeles is art deco perfection and simply stunning!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#19
Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:14pm
These theaters were built before the depression. Back than only radio and that's it. People's lives were rather drab. These theaters were advertised as Temples Of Entertainment. For $. 25 cents people felt like a King or Queen for a few hours. If you wanted to see the Hall Of Mirrors at Versailles, they went to the Rialto Square. You wanted the chapel @ Versailles, you went to the demolished Tivoli in Chicago
Most people back than did not even notice the plasterwork above their head. They were built to last a hundred years or more and were so solid it is ridiculous The theaters were so overbuilt ( in number) there were hundreds and hundreds of them. When the depression hit, it all came to a screeching halt.
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Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#20
Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:36pm
I love the Opera House in Boston, and the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh is also lovely.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#21
Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:40pm
The opera house was an old Loews movie house. The Benedum was an old RKO movie house.
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#22
Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:42pm
MichelleCraig said: "Here's the Pantages in Hollywood...
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I don't like how the ceiling is not its real ceiling
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#23
Posted: 3/3/16 at 2:06pm
Mr Roxy said: "These theaters were built before and during the depression. Back than only radio and that's it. People's lives were rather drab. These theaters were advertised as Temples Of Entertainment. For $. 25 cents people felt like a King or Queen for a few hours. If you wanted to see the Hall Of Mirrors at Versailles, they went to the Rialto Square. You wanted the chapel @ Versailles, you went to the demolished Tivoli in Chicago
Most people back than did not even notice the plasterwork above their head. They were built to last a hundred years or more and were so solid it is ridiculous The theaters were so overbuilt ( in number) there were hundreds and hundreds of them. When the depression hit, it all came to a screeching halt."
Theres a tvoli theatre in downers grove Illinois and although it's mostly a movie house the interior is still beautiful.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#24
Posted: 3/3/16 at 2:48pm
Hard to believe that the twin Fox theaters in Detroit & St Louis were designed by the same man (C Howard Crane) who designed the rather plain little Music Box theater in NYC. He also designed many theaters in Detroit and the long demolished Brooklyn Fox
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Most Beautiful Touring Theatres#25
Posted: 3/3/16 at 3:51pm
Another vote for boston opera house
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