On Januit was renamed Toho Theatre, and reopened with Akira Kurosawa’s “"The Bad Sleep Well” and it featured Japanese films.įirst-run features returned in 1965, along with the theatre’s original Bijou Theatre name, and continued until 1970, when legitimate theatre once again made a comeback, although just as quickly, so did movies. Griffith Theatre, which screened art films. The smaller theatre reopened on Octowith its first name change in its history, the D.W. In 1959, when the next-door Astor Theatre was being remodeled and enlarged, it required cutting into the Bijou Theatre’s auditorium and part of its stage, reducing seating to around 365. From 1947-53, movies returned again, followed by another six years staging legitimate theatre. It remained dark until 1943, when it once more hosted legitimate fare.
BIJOU THEATER MOVIE
In 1937, it once again was a movie house, but by the end of the same year, was closed. We’re Bijou Movie Theater and we’ve been a movie theater here in Mount Vernon, IA, since 1975. The Bijou Theatre opened on Apwith the play “The Knife” and continued as a legitimate theatre until 1935, when it switched to an all-cartoon movie format, but only briefly, since by 1936, it had returned to legitimate theatre. Krapp.ĭesigned in refined Louis XVI style inside, featuring an original color scheme of blue, ivory and gold in its auditorium, the Bijou Theatre was planned as the Theatre Francais, and was to have featured French stage classics, but at the last moment, that idea was scrapped, though the French-themed decor remained. In recognition of their architectural and historical value, both the building and the theater were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.The smallest of the Broadway theatres opened by the Shubert Brothers, the Bijou Theatre, which seated 603, was situated between the Morosco Theatre and Astor Theatre, and was designed by the Shubert Brothers' house architect, Herbert J.
In the following decades, at various times, the theater served as a venue for traditional stage performances, vaudeville, and a second-run and pornographic movie house, as well as a commencement stage for the city's African-American high school.Īmong those who have graced the theater's stage over the years are the likes of the Marx Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie, John Philip Sousa, the Ballets Russes, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, John Cullum, and Houdini. In 1909, it had a new lobby cut through from Gay Street to accommodate the Bijou Theatre which opened its doors for the first time on March 8, 1909.
Following the war, the hotel became the center of Knoxville's Gilded Age extravagance, hosting lavish masquerade balls for the local elite. Check out Bijou Theatre Bridgeports events, learn more, or contact this organizer. During the Civil War, the Union Army used the building as a hospital for their wounded. Bijou Theatre Bridgeport is using Eventbrite to organize 5 upcoming events. It was built by Irish immigrant Thomas Humes (1767–1816) and his descendants and quickly emerged as a gathering place for Knoxville's wealthy. The hotel itself dates back to 1817 and was modified in the 1850s. The Bijou Theatre is housed in the Lamar House Hotel building and is located in the rear wing thereof which was added in 1909.
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