#Orpheum Theater

[twincitiesgeek]

The Beetlejuice Musical Breathes New Life into a Cult-Classic Story

Beetlejuice may have been in the news for unwelcome reasons, but the show's recent Minneapolis stop was a thorough delight.

Full disclosure: this show is a blast. Beetlejuice is haunting the country with its tour, and last week the show graced the Twin Cities with a run at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. I’m not usually one for musicals, but this was one show I wasn’t going to miss … again. (I had a ticket to see it on Broadway back in March 2020. Need I say more?) The musical, based on the 1988 cult-classic film,…

[da-ill-spot]

November 10 - 12 | LA3C Music & Food Fest | DTLA | TIX

[chiegetseven]

Every Frame a Painting - Vancouver Never Plays Itself

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Paramore at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska via shawn_everidge (2022)

[jtrocks]

🎥 musicnmeows

[wheretheeternalare]

wait you're telling me that belle and sebastian rescheduled their american tour but they're no longer coming to [redacted city that i live in]. that's so fucked up.

[chaddavisphotography]

Lion King draws crowds in downtown Minneapolis.

[oldshowbiz]

The San Francisco Orpheum

[mel-street]

suspiciously close to dropping a concerning amount of money to get hadestown tour tickets

[darlenefblog]

Wicked - 2024

The road show is still fun, the staging hasn't changed in the years in-between my first and this second time. Glinda is such a fun character and gets the best lines and songs. Elphaba appears to be a foil for her. When they sing For Good how they end their friendship is said truthfully, the words are so right. The relationship between Elphaba and Fiyero is a surprise and turns out so sweet, a true happily ever after with a twist.

I could listen to the song Popular over and over again. It's funny and the Glinda character is so goofy it works perfectly.

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October 24, 2018

The Orpheum Theater

Phoenix, AZ

[britishchick09]

the story that partly inspired today’s senpai fic! but what about the theater? ;)

turns out senpai’s 5 seats were gone by the time of the fic! the theater burned on october 20th 1937 (coincidentally that’s the day of the wadlows’ move to sanford avenue!) and another blaze took it 10 days later. about a year after senpai’s passing is when the theater passed away as well. crazy stuff! :o

here’s the spot where the theater stood today:

luckily the princess theater swooped in to save the day! :D

it opened in 1908 or 1912 as a combo theater for pictures and the stage. it had a big remodeling in early 1937 and was redone in a modern art deco style, as well as the organ was taken out (rip 1915-1937 :’( )

long after senpai, the theater started to decline in popularity during the 60s and closed in 1970, being demolished in 1981 (but not before being considered to become a disco!)

this is about where it was today:

and for grins and giggles, here’s the route there from the wadlow’s house!:

it’s sort of a long boi... (but not as long as senpai!) what did the he and the sibs see there? you’ll find out very soon! ;)

[loudsoftsonance]

Orpheum - Minneapolis, MN

[neil-gaiman]

hi neil, it’s been a while since i’ve talked to you! just wanted to thank you for everything, you are my favorite author (and my moms, and her dads- i guess you are generational) and you’ve been such an inspiration and motivation to me every day. i know everyone says that, but it’s true. i’m in an academic team and we just recently started our regionals competition, and we were told to prepare and memorize a speech on pretty much anything, and surprise, i chose you! well, not you, but i chose to tell why i want to be an author, and you’ve had a pretty big hand in that. i’ll give you a shorter version at the end since it’s pretty long. again, thank you! truly.

When I was a kid, I had always wanted to be a writer. As I grew older, this dream of mine dissipated, seeming too unreliable to be a real career- until recently.

The ‘me’ of my childhood was scattered throughout the United States, leaving a piece of her youth at every new house we lived in. But one constant in my life, regardless of where I was living, was that I was always reading. Books were special to me, and kept me grounded when my life was going unpredictably. Each book was a world of its own, each story a lifeboat in a sea of uncertainty. Books were not just words on paper, they were my home, more than anywhere else. It is because of this that I strongly empathize with this quote from Neil Gaiman’s novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: “I’ve lived in books more than I’ve lived anywhere else.”

I am familiar with the quote in two ways. The first being in the way I grew up, living in many places but always finding home in my books. The second being one night, of uncertain longitudes and latitudes, I read my first Neil Gaiman novel- The Ocean at the End of the Lane. He soon became my favorite author.

Years later, my mom had gotten tickets for “An Evening With Neil Gaiman” at the Orpheum Theater. It continued to be rescheduled due to covid, but my mom and I held on to our tickets. That evening was all I could ever hope for. He gave us advice, which I’ve kept in my heart ever since. It was that very evening in which I decided I wanted to be on the other side of my passion for reading- I wanted to be the author. With an idol such as mine, how could I not?

I had kept writing in the back of my mind always, and on that night, it resurfaced. I gained my love for reading from my mother, and without it, Neil Gaiman would be a stranger to me, and I never would have rediscovered my passion for writing. Thank you.

as always, with love, ollie :)

You will do brilliantly. Keep going!

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Paramore at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska by falllingwater (2022)