Tupelo Community Theatre

The Tupelo Community Theatre AKA Lyric is located at Court & Broadway, P.O. Box 1094, Tupelo, Ms. Seating capacity is 800.

Built in 1912 it opened as the Comus Theatre. When the silent and then talkies came into the picture the theatre was acquired by the Saenger Thetres and was renamed the Strand. It must have later became part of the Malco Theatres and was renamed the Lyric. The actual street address for the Tupelo Community Arts Theatre is 200 North Broadway, Tupelo, Mi. 38804.

Need an aka name of Comos Theater and Lyric Theater.

Here is a photo of the Lyric Theater.

According to the Saenger website, this theater also used the name of Strand Theater. The names were Comus Theater, Strand Theater, Lyric Theater and now the Tupelo Community Theatre.

Address:

200 N Broadway St
Tupelo, MS 38801

This is a 2007 close-up view of the Lyric Theater.

Here is another photo of the Lyric Theater.

A Robert-Morton theater organ was installed in the Strand Theater in 1928.

This is a recent photo of the Tupelo Community Theater.

A 1986 view of the Lyric Theater in Tupelo and a larger view here. Give Tupelo credit for saving the building, but they certainly did not do it justice with the ugly paint job.

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1982 photo of the Tupelo Community Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c24%2c3%2c-1&ProductID=29067

The community playhouse formerly known as the Lyric - a rainy day in Tupelo, summer 1996:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34152329@N06/3476990982/

On this 75th Anniversary of Elvis's birth I wonder if he actually ever attended this theatre as a boy or performed on its stage. Anyone know?