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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

A teenage Judy Garland worked this stage in vaudeville's waning years, and the 1928 Mighty Wurlitzer that accompanied silent films still rises from the pit. The Orpheum Theatre at 842 South Broadway opened on 15 February 1926 as the fourth and final Los Angeles home of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. The architect was G. Albert Lansburgh, the circuit's favoured designer, delivering a French Baroque auditorium behind a Beaux Arts facade - his last commission for the company after a falling-out d...