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The Martin Beck Theater, now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, at 302 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Martin Beck (July 31, 1868 – November 16, 1940) was a vaudeville theatre owner and manager, and theatrical booking agent, who founded the Orpheum Circuit, and built the Palace and Martin Beck Theatres in New York City's Broadway Theatre District. [1]
The theater hosted a wide range of events including movie screenings, comedy shows, burlesque, and concerts from alternative, indie rock, heavy metal, punk rock, jam, industrial, gothic bands, and hip hop and electronica artists. [5] Bob Dylan performed at the Troc on December 11, 1997. [6]
The Orpheum Circuit was started by the vaudeville impresario Gustav Walter, who opened the Orpheum Opera House in San Francisco in June 1887. This first Orpheum seated 3500 and quickly became one of the most popular theaters in San Francisco attracting a wide variety of people. [1] The Orpheum's tickets were scaled to draw a mixed audience.
The Melodrama World Tour was the second concert tour by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, undertaken in support of her second studio album, Melodrama (2017). Lorde headlined several music festivals before commencing the tour, and went on to communicate frequently with stage designer Es Devlin to plan the show's design.
The theater was funded by Martin Beck, a vaudeville entrepreneur. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The theater has been housed in three buildings over the years. While the interior space dates to the 1913 design by Kirchhoff & Rose, the original theater building was partly demolished in 1988 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the theater space was renovated inside the DoubleTree ...
G. William "Bill" Oakley, Jr. (March 19, 1937 – October 30, 2010) [1] was a theatrical producer-director-actor and seminal figure in the revival of early American theater, melodrama and vaudeville with theaters in Colorado and Missouri.
Legitimate theatre [a] is live performance that relies almost entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural movement. [2] [3] Traditionally, performances of such theatre were termed legitimate drama, [4] [2] [3] while the abbreviation the legitimate refers to legitimate theatre or drama and legit is a noun referring both to such dramas and actors in these dramas.
He first appeared on the vaudeville stage in 1909 at Hammerstein's Victoria in New York City, appearing in the ring with white boxer, Kid Cutler. He went on a thirty-week vaudeville tour the following year. [422] [423] George W. Johnson: c. 1855 January 23, 1914 American Singer. Ralph Johnstone: 1886 November 17, 1910 American Bicyclist.