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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Jack Johnson slept in the manager's apartment because no Kansas City hotel would rent the heavyweight champion a room; Gypsy Rose Lee made her unplanned first burlesque appearance on the same stage in 1929. The Folly Theater at 300 West 12th Street opened on 23 September 1900 as the Standard Theatre - a Louis Curtiss design whose exposed lightbulbs showed off a technology barely a generation old - and it is now Kansas City's oldest theatre. Its century ran through every name and vice the entert...