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The Carousel Dinner Theatre opened in 1973 and moved to Akron, Ohio in 1988 to what had been a Las Vegas-style nightclub. With 1200 seats, it was the largest dinner theater in the United States until it closed in 2009.
In its heyday, Kenley Players productions drew crowds of 5,000 in Dayton, Akron, Columbus, Flint, Michigan, and Warren, Ohio. [1] Kenley "pioneered the notion of putting TV stars in summer stock." [ 5 ] In a 1950 interview Kenley told The Washington Post , "I only charge $1.50 top...I'd rather have full houses every night than be stuck with a ...
John Kenley (February 20, 1906 – October 23, 2009) was an American theatrical producer who pioneered the use of television stars in summer stock productions. In 1950, he was the first producer to desegregate live theater in Washington, DC.
Another former Chapel Hill Mall fixture, the old mall carousel, was donated by the Chapel Hill Business Park’s owner, Industrial Commercial Properties (ICP), to the city of Akron in 2021.
Akron nightlife king greeted customers at Red’s, Buck’s, Crocker’s, The Vault and Posh, among other places. His reunions at Tangier were popular. Red Shapiro, owner of Red’s nightclub in ...
The Peanut Shoppe has been serving customers for 90 years on South Main Street in downtown Akron. 20. There are four seasons — and sometimes all in the same day.
Neal Shapiro (born July 22, 1945) is an American equestrian and was a silver medalist in team jumping and Bronze medalist in individual jumping in the 1972 Munich Olympics, [2] where he became the first American Equestrian jumper to win two medals and only the third U.S. rider to win an individual medal in an Olympic show jumping event.
Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater – Fresno, California, dinner and a musical or play put on by the Good Company Players; Showboat Dinner Theatre – St. Petersburg, Florida, a popular Tampa Bay venue in the 1970s–1980s, featuring popular stars of stage and screen, such as Dorothy Lamour, Hayden Rorke, Cesar Romero, and Myrna Loy [7]