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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Georgia » Albany » Albany Theatre

Albany Theatre

Albany, GA
107 North Jackson Street
, Albany, GA 31701 United States
(map)
Status: Closed/Renovating/Restoring
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Adam
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1700
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Roy A. Benjamin
Firm: Unknown
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The Albany Theatre opened as "Southwest Georgia's Magnificent Theatre" on September 12, 1927. Dedicated to "the pleasure loving public of South Georgia", the Albany Theatre's premiere program featured H. L. Tallman at the console of the three-manual Robert Morton pipe organ (Opus 2304), Ralph Barnes and his Albany Theatre Orchestra and, on the screen, Ronald Coleman and Vilma Banky in "The Magic Flame". The first director of this Adam-inspired theatre was Homer W. McCallon.

The theatre made a successful adaptation to sound films and remained Albany's first-run theatre a few years prior to its closing in the 1970's.

The theatre was purchased from the Farkas Estate by Oglethorpe Development Group, a minority enterprise which is currently underwriting a restoration of the theatre as a performing arts center.

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Albany Theatre - Albany (Official)
Contributed by John Clark McCall, Jr.

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This is an interior photo of the Albany Theater. Text with photo reads: "Albany, after 1927. Interior of the Albany Theater. It was built in 1927 by the estate of Sam Farkas".

posted by Lost Memory on May 9, 2008 at 11:50am
Here is a website for the Albany Theater.

posted by Lost Memory on May 9, 2008 at 11:56am
In 1940, the Albany Theatre presented the world premiere of Paramount's "The Biscuit Eater," a boy-and-his-dog story partially filmed on location in rural Georgia: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=premiere+source:life&imgurl=2f876ee256c525f3
posted by Warren G. Harris on Dec 1, 2008 at 1:51pm
A forlorn view of the closed Albany Theater in Albany from 1986. (Notice the great bas relief artwork).

If there is only one vehicle within a mile of an old theater.....guess where it will be parked?
posted by Don Lewis on Dec 14, 2008 at 3:32pm
The Albany Theatre is up for sale for 1.5 million. There are some pictures of the renovations that have been done on www.albanyc1.com
I toured this theatre several years ago before restoration begin and I do not recognzie some of the areas shown in the pictures. It is possible that they may be dividing up some of the large areas. I don't know what has happended unless the owner just ran out of funds.
posted by Larry Bearden on Jan 15, 2009 at 8:37am
1986 photo of the Albany Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c10%2c3%2c-1&ProductID=25673
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 12, 2009 at 12:38pm
Another photo from 1986 is here.

posted by Lost Memory on May 3, 2009 at 7:48pm
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