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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Orlando's oldest stage was built on the site of the county jail, and it has spent a century refusing to die. The Beacham at 46 North Orange Avenue opened on December 9, 1921, built by former mayor Braxton Beacham Sr. as a 1,097-seat movie palace and vaudeville house with a $15,000 Austin pipe organ and an electric marquee unique in Florida. The theater ran through every era of American exhibition - vaudeville in the twenties, Florida State Theatres cinema from 1933, a Cinerama conversion on Chr...