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2. ‘Full-scale renovation’ of Wichita’s Orpheum Theatre will ...

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   The theater is seeking a special sales tax to fund $1 million of the project. ‘Full-scale renovation’ of Wichita’s Orpheum Theatre will close historic venue for a year Skip to main content

3. Orpheum Theatre (Wichita, Kansas) - Wikipedia

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   Originally built as a vaudeville venue, the theatre underwent conversion into a movie house in 1929 and for decades it presented both movies and live entertainment. . Throughout the 1920s, the Chicago-based Orpheum circuit brought famous names like: Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Jack Benny, George Burns, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Gracie Allen, Gypsy Rose Lee, Bing Crosby, Mickey Rooney, and ...

4. Complete Orpheum restoration starts next June, will shutter ...

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   Leaders of the downtown venue announced on Wednesday, the theater’s 102nd birthday, details about how it will restore the Orpheum to its original 1920s glory.

5. Orpheum Circuit - Wikipedia

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   The Orpheum Theater in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: built in 1903, demolished in 1964; The Orpheum Theatre and complex (originally 18 stores, offices, pool hall, ballroom and a cafe) in Springfield, Illinois: built in 1927, demolished in 1965 [22] [23] The Orpheum Theater, 5th & Edmond Street, St. Joseph, Missouri, built c. 1910, demolished 1975

6. RKO Pictures - Wikipedia

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   RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together ...

7. Wichita true crime junkies can explore why serial killers ...

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   My So Called Band, an Oklahoma-based tribute act, will be in Wichita on Friday performing music from the 1990s and early 2000s and covering nearly all genres, including rock, grunge, country, R&B ...

8. RCA Photophone - Wikipedia

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   When Joseph P. Kennedy and other investors merged Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Radio Corporation of America; the resulting movie studio RKO Radio Pictures used RCA Photophone as its primary sound system. In March 1929, RKO released Syncopation, the first live-recorded film made with RCA ...

9. See historic photos of the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita - AOL

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   Wichita’s historic Orpheum Theatre opened to the public on Sept. 4, 1922. After nearly meeting the wrecking ball in the 1980s, the theater is now a staple of Wichita’s entertainment scene.