6233 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

In the heart of Hollywood, just down the block from the fabled corner of Hollywood & Vine, stands the Pantages Theatre. It’s a fitting location: The Pantages has become one of the greatest landmarks of Hollywood, signifying both its glorious past and its exciting future. The Pantages has a grand and diverse. These days, the theatre is one of Los Angeles’ leading homes of legitimate theatre. In the past, it has been a movie house, with live vaudeville acts between features, and the site of numerous gala premieres and “spectaculars.” The June 4, 1930 opening night audience couldn’t have been more impressed with the theatre. Impressario Alexander Pantages had conceived of this movie palace, the last built to bear his name, as a fitting monument to his position in the entertainment industry. Although the Wall Street Crash occurred between groundbreaking and completion, no expense was spared in its construction. The cost of the Pantages Theatre itself, not counting the considerable expense of theatrical and projection equipment, was $1.25 million, a staggering figure in that era.

In 1949, Howard Hughes acquired the Pantages as part of his national chain of movie houses, and the theatre entered the decade of the 1950s as the RKO Pantages. During that decade, the Pantages played host to Hollywood’s most spectacular annual event, The Academy Awards.

Pacific Theatres purchased the Pantages from RKO in December of 1967, after having run the theatre for two years on a lease agreement. Pacific briefly closed the house for refurbishing and a general relighting. The Pantages reopened, refreshed, again taking its place as one of the finest movie houses on the West Coast, and continued business as such for nearly a decade. In January 1977, Pacific joined forces with the Nederlander Organization to bring back live theatre to Hollywood. Among the most influential producers and presenters of live Broadway theatre in the world, the Nederlander Organization lent its monumental expertise to the task and under the combined Nederlander-Forman aegis, the Pantages opened its doors on February 15, 1977 as one of the finest legitimate theatres in California. From that time until the present, the Pantages Theatre has been the Los Angeles home for scores upon scores of legitimate theatre attractions, most of which have been large scale Broadway musical hits.

In the year 2000, in anticipation of the September bow of Disney’s The Lion King, the James M. Nederlander spent over $10 million to completely overhaul the Pantages, restoring the theatre to the level of grandeur it deserves. Following the 2½ year run of The Lion King, the Pantages had been established as the premiere venue for major Broadway productions in Southern California. The theatre currently hosts a long-running engagement of the blockbuster musical Wicked.

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