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Pantages Theatre (Hollywood) 

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(January 2013) 

Hollywood Pantages Theatre 

The Art Deco façade of the Pantages Theater

Location6233 Hollywood Boulevard 

Hollywood, California 

Coordinates

34.10194°N

118.32556°WCoordinates: 

34.10194°N 118.32556°W 

Public transit Hollywood/Vine 

Owner Nederlander Organization

Type Indoor theatre 

Seating type Reserved

Capacity 2,703

Opened June 4, 1930

Website

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hollywoodpantages.com

 

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument 

Designated July 5, 1978[1] 

Reference no. 193

Architect B. Marcus Priteca

Architectural

styleArt Deco 

The Hollywood Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at

Hollywood and Vine (6233 Hollywood Boulevard), in Hollywood. Designed by architect B.Marcus Priteca, it was the last theater built by the vaudeville impresario Alexander Pantages. The palatial Art Deco theater opened on June 4, 1930, as part of the Pantages Theatre Circuit.[2] 

Contents

  1 History 

  2 Past productions 

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2.1 2009 

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2.2 2010 

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2.3 2011 

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2.4 2015   3 See also 

  4 References 

  5 External links 

History

The 26th Academy Awards (1954)

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The Pantages Theatre Circuit had been built on vaudeville, and the new Hollywood theater programmed first-run movies alternating through the day with vaudeville acts for its first twoyears. But like other theaters during the Great Depression, it was forced to economize andthereafter operated primarily as a movie theater, though live entertainment was presentedoccasionally.

Alexander Pantages sold the Hollywood landmark in 1932 to Fox West Coast Theaters. In 1949,Howard Hughes acquired the Hollywood Pantages for his RKO Theatre Circuit and moved his personal offices to the building's second floor. From 1949 through 1959, the theatre hosted theAmerican motion picture industry's annual Academy Award Ceremonies.[2] It continued to be amajor venue for  Road show movies into the 1970s. From 1965, it was operated by PacificTheatres. The Hollywood Pantages closed as a movie theater in January, 1977, and re-opened thefollowing month with  Bubbling Brown Sugar , the first of the many stage productions that havesince become its regular fare.

The interior of the theater

 Now operated by an arm of the  Nederlander Organization, the Hollywood Pantages is one of LosAngeles' leading venues for live theater (the five highest-grossing weeks in L.A.'s theatricalhistory were all shows at the Hollywood Pantages). The theatre has recently presented large-scale Broadway musicals such as  Disney's The Lion King , which ran at the theatre for over twoyears, and hosted the long-running Los Angeles production of the Broadway musical Wicked . 

Situated on a prime location, the area's building and a rejuvenation boom has spread to BobHope Square with the addition of a new W Hotel and retail stores, tied closely to theHollywood/Vine station. The theater underwent a $10-million restoration and upgrade in 2000.The original plans for the Hollywood Pantages were for a 12-story building: 2 floors dedicated totheater and 10 floors of office space. Completion of the 10 upper floors was halted due to the

1929 stock market crash during construction. In December 2007, plans were revealed tocomplete the original design and floors, much due to the rejuvenation of the Hollywood area andthe demand for office space.[2] 

The theatre has also occasionally hosted popular music concerts, including those of the bandsDream Theater , Foo Fighters and Mark Knopfler  (of  Dire Straits). The Talking Heads' 1984concert film Stop Making Sense was shot there. In 1997, 4 years before her English crossover,Colombian singer-songwriter  Shakira  performed her first show in the United States at the

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Hollywood Pantages. In 2006, Mexican pop-group RBD recorded their CD/DVD "Live inHollywood" at the Hollywood Pantages.

The Hollywood Pantages Theatre is also a popular location for the filming of movies, TV shows,and music videos. The concert scenes in the 1980 film The Jazz Singer  is just one example.

Rickie Lee Jones's 1979 self-titled debut LP has a reference to "the Pantages" in her song Chuck E.'s In Love. 

Past productions

Pantages Theatre during the 2007-2009 run of  Wicked  

Productions at the Pantages (presented by Broadway in L.A. since 1996), have included:[3] 

  Bubbling Brown Sugar  (1977)

 

Man of La Mancha (1978)  Beatlemania (1978)

  La Cage aux Folles (1984-1985)

   Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  (1993)

  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1996)

  Damn Yankees (1996)

  Riverdance (1996, 1998, 2006)

   Andrew Lloyd Webber – Music of the Night  (1997)

  West Side Story  (1997)

  Cats (1997, 2003, 2006)

  Tango x 2 (1997)

  The Phantom of the Opera (1997, 1998)

  The King and I (1998, 2005)

  Peter Pan (1998, 2004)

   Annie (1999, 2005)

  Cirque Ingenieux  (1999)

  Evita (1999, 2005)

  The Wizard of Oz (1999)

  Footloose (1999)

   Jekyll & Hyde (1999)

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  Sunset Boulevard  (1999)

  Defending the Caveman (1999)

  Fame (1999)

  Buddy –  The Buddy Holly Story  (2000)

  The Sound of Music (2000)

  The Lion King (2000 –2003, 2006)

  The Producers (2003)

  Chicago (2004, 2005)

  Starlight Express (2004)

  Mamma Mia! (2004, 2009)

  Hairspray  (2004, 2006)

  Miss Saigon (2004)

  Movin' Out  (2004)

  Les Misérables (2004, 2006)

  Oklahoma! (2005)

  Wicked  (2005, 2007)

  Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2005)

 

Dragon Tales Live (2006)  Doctor Dolittle (2006)

  Stomp (2006)

  Rent  (2006)

  Little Women (2006)

  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2006)

  RBD - Live In Hollywood  (2006)

  Sweet Charity  (2006)

  The Ten Tenors (2006)

2009

  The Phantom of the Opera (2009)

  Rent  (2009)

  Mamma Mia! (2009)

  Grease (2009)

  Dirty Dancing (2009)

  RAIN –  A Tribute to The Beatles (2009)

  Fiddler on the Roof  (2009)

  Legally Blonde (2009)

  Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2009)

2010

  Riverdance (2010)

  Stomp (2010)

  The Color Purple (2010)

  Cats (2010)

  Chicago (2010)

  Young Frankenstein (2010)

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  In the Heights (2010)

  The Phantom of the Opera (2010)

  West Side Story  (2010)

2011

  Hair  (2011)

  Spring Awakening (2011)

  The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony  (2011)

  Rock of Ages (2011)

  RAIN –  A Tribute to the Beatles (2011)

  Disney's Beauty and the Beast  (2011)

  Burn The Floor  (2011)

  Shrek the Musical  (2011)

  Wicked  (2011-2012)

2015

   Jersey Boys (2015)

  Pippin (2015)

  Kinky Boots (2015)

  Wicked  (2015)

   An Evening With Neil DeGrasse Tyson (2015)

  Newsies (2015)

  Motown (2015)

  The Phantom of the Opera (2015)

   Annie (2015)

See also

  Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood