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Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was constructed in 1868, at a cost of a million dollars (equivalent to about 22.9 million US dollars in 2023), for distiller and entrepreneur Samuel N. Pike ...
Lehman proceeded to Chicago and established an office there for booking acts into their Orpheum theaters. It was at this point that the pair hired Martin Beck to run the booking operations of the theaters. [6] Beck's goals became to "make the Orpheum circuit bring the highest forms of art within reach of the people with the slimmest purses". [2]
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The Grand Opera House was inaugurated on Monday, November 14, 1881, with a performance of Muldoon's Picnic. [6] [1] Seating 2,000 people, [1] at the time it opened it was the second largest theatre in Brooklyn; with only the Brooklyn Academy of Music surpassing its size. [3] The theatre was purchased by the firm of Hyde and Benham in 1882. [2]
The first site for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit was the Grand Opera House, also known as the Grand Theater, 110 S. Main Street (built 1884, closed 1937). [4] The second Orpheum venue was the Orpheum Theatre (previously known as the Los Angeles Theatre and later known as the Lyceum Theatre, at 227 S. Spring Street (opened 1888, closed 1941). [4]
The Newark Theatre in 1906. Was Miner's Theatre in 1886 when began and was Paramount Theatre in 1986 when closed Waller's Opera House opened in 1847 and became Waldmann's Opera House. Was later known as Fox's Carlton Theatre, Gayety Theatre, and finally known as Ascher's Halsey Theatre until 1922.
The Grand Opera House, also known as The Grand or Masonic Hall and Grand Theater, is a 1,208-seat theater for the performing arts in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The four-story building was built in 1871 by the Delaware Grand Lodge of Masons to serve as a Masonic Temple and auditorium. The construction cost was $100,000. [3]
The Grand Opera House was a theatre located at 119 North Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois. Established by Chicago impresario John A. Hamlin, the theatre originally opened as the Coliseum in 1875 and was later rebranded as Hamlin's Theatre in 1878.