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The Roxy Theatre was a 5,920 [a]-seat movie palace at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off Times Square in New York City. It was the largest movie theater ever built at the time of its construction in 1927. [ 1 ]
The concert scenes for their 1979 movie Rock 'n' Roll High School were filmed at the Roxy in December 1978. George Benson's Platinum live album Weekend in L.A. (1978) was culled from a three-night engagement at The Roxy from September 30 – October 2, 1977. John Mayall's November 24 1976 concert at the Roxy was released in 1977 as "Lots of ...
RKO Roxy Theatre, 49th Street, New York, N.Y., 1932 An ice stage 100 feet (30 m) wide with a skating surface of 7,000 square feet (650 m 2 ) was built in the theater. Beneath it 28,000 feet (8,500 m) of pipe were laid, capable of continuously circulating a freezing solution at the rate of 500 US gallons per minute (1,900 L/min).
In 1973, music mogul Lou Adler and a dream team of bizzers opened the Roxy Theatre. 50 years later, the club's still going strong, as is the 89-year-old Adler.
The Buckhead Theatre subsequently became the Capri Theatre and later closed, re-opening in 2010 under its original name Buckhead Theatre. In July 2016, LiveNation and the Atlanta Braves announced that a theater with the name Coca-Cola Roxy will reside at the new SunTrust Park as part of The Battery Atlanta, the development surrounding the new ...
In the mid-1980s, it was called Buckhead Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, [5] until it was converted into the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. [ 7 ] A significant Atlanta concert venue in the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the Roxy finally closed after Live Nation and Clear Channel ended their lease in 2008.
Roxy Theater (Miami Beach), Florida; Roxy Theatre (Atlanta), Georgia; Roxy Theatre (New York City), not to be confused with the RKO Roxy Theatre, a.k.a. the Center Theatre; RKO Roxy Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City, a.k.a. the Center Theatre; Roxy Theatre (Langdon, North Dakota), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Roxy Theatre. In 1924, he sold his interest in the Madison and bought two theatres in Renton. The Roxy Theatre, located at 504 S. 3rd Street, was an art-deco landmark, with an eight-sided dome in the ceiling and staircases with sweeping chrome railings. Inside the auditorium were art-deco light fixtures in the shape of four-pointed stars, which ...