Everything that played herenothing held
No production we hold names this building. Nine of the 135 venue records are in this position: the building is described and nothing has been joined to it.
In the literature8 passages
- As preparations commenced for the opening, the technicians of San Francisco’s newly refurbished Orpheum Theatre had trouble delivering the exact effects Gower wanted when he wanted them, so he simply grabbed a ladder and made the adjustments himself. But as the show neared its debut, Gower appeared to be slowing down and Lee was concerned…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
- Our next stop was the very haunted Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, where paranormalists have identified no fewer than eleven different entities. The place was lousy with ghosts. But only one of them is so famous and widely acknowledged that she’s featured in the official coffee-table book about the theatre:ebooks/Kostroff, Michael/Letters From Backstage_ The Adventures of a Touring Stage Actor - Michael Kostroff.txt
- The stage of the Orpheum Theatre was where I had the second visitation from Evita. It happened during a preview. At the beginning of the show, as the movie screen was tracking back, a stage light overhead exploded. It shattered and rained down tiny pieces of glass over the center section, right where I was sitting. In my career it is the…ebooks/Lupone, Patti/Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone.txt
- In San Francisco, the backstabbing within the cast, which had already started in Los Angeles, got a lot more intense. Down in the basement of the Orpheum Theatre, where the chorus and dancers lived, somebody put up the alternate’s good notices next to my bad notices. When I found out about these reviews going up on the wall in the basemen…ebooks/Lupone, Patti/Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone.txt
- Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco in late May of 1977. It went on to tour Los Angeles, Dallas, and Miami—and rumor had it that it was going to play a theatre on Broadway before touring Russia.52 At length, however, Reynolds decided that she was not quite ready for another Broadway run and the show did not p…ebooks/test/test - test.txt
What this page does not know
- What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
- Who built it.