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The Fox Theatre is a performing arts center located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it was at over 5,000 seats the largest theater in the city.
The Detroit Fox Theatre (1928) was the first theater ever constructed with built-in film sound equipment. Commissioned by William Fox and built by architect C. Howard Crane, the ornate Detroit Fox was fully restored in 1988. It is the largest of the nation's Fox Theatres with 5,045 seats.
The Senate Theater is a theater in Detroit, Michigan, known for its "Mighty Wurlitzer" pipe organ, originally installed at the Fisher Theater.The Senate opened in 1926, deteriorated substantially after its closure in the 1950s, and reopened in 1964 under the ownership and volunteer operation of the Detroit Theatre Organ Society.
313 Presents, LLC is a live entertainment company based in Detroit.It is a joint venture between Olympia Entertainment and Palace Sports & Entertainment (PS&E) that produces and promotes live events held at six of the two companies' venues in southeast Michigan, including the Olympia-owned Little Caesars Arena, Fox Theatre, and Comerica Park, and the PS&E-run Pine Knob Music Theatre, Meadow ...
Organ performances ended around the same time, although the organ remained intact. The original marquee was scrapped for the war effort. [3] [8] In 1966, the Motor City Theatre Organ Society, a local chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, began a series of organ performances at the theatre. The MTCOS had begun to restore the organ the ...
The Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a 1,731-seat theatre located in the city's theatre district at 350 Madison Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.It was built in 1928 as the Wilson Theatre, designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
the article states the the Detroit Fox Theatre has a Moller organ in it and is the last on around to still be in its original place. i believe this is mistaken. the Moller organ spoken of here is in the Atlanta Fox Theatre. because i know that the Theatre organ in Detroit is a Wurlitzer organ other wise know as the "The Mighty Wurlitzer ...
The Murphys arranged for the organ to be donated to Detroit's Calvary Presbyterian Church. A lawsuit was filed to compel Paradise Theater management to allow the organ's removal; the move was eventually carried out by the Toledo Pipe Organ Company and church members in the middle of the night. [5] Orchestra Hall in 1970