Most Beautiful Touring Theatres

[BroadMagTech]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:10am

What are the most beautiful theatres you have seen tours in? 

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:12am

The Fox in St. Louis!

[Eliza2]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:12am

The Fox in Atlanta!

 

http://www.geoffreygoldbergphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Atlanta-Fox.jpg

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[evic]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:15am

Fox in Detroit.

[artscallion]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:16am

The Providence Performing Arts Center

[KJisgroovy]

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. 

[asmith0307]

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. 

 

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[artscallion]

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.

[Rhoda4]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:48am

PROCTORS in Schenectady NY

[asmith0307]

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!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 11:58am

The Pantages in Hollywood is also pretty great. Too bad about the neighborhood!

[Mister Matt]

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.

[RippedMan]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

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

[Call_me_jorge]

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. 

[Mr Roxy]

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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[Alessio2]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 12:49pm

Pantages in Los Angeles is art deco perfection and simply stunning!

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:08pm

Here's the Pantages in Hollywood...

[Mr Roxy]

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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[sorano916]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:36pm

I love the Opera House in Boston, and the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh is also lovely.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 1:40pm

The opera house was an old Loews movie house. The Benedum was an old RKO movie house.

[Call_me_jorge]

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

[Call_me_jorge]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

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

[KCW]

Posted: 3/3/16 at 3:51pm

Another vote for boston opera house