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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

Rising on the site of a opera house destroyed by fire, the Orpheum Theatre opened on 19 November 1928 at the corner of South Main and Beale streets in downtown Memphis. Built for around 1.6 million dollars to designs by the renowned Chicago theatre architects C.W. and George L. Rapp, it replaced the earlier Grand Opera House, which had stood on the spot from 1890 until flames consumed it in 1923, and it opened twice the size of its predecessor. The new Orpheum was a lavish vaudeville and movie ...