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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Wisconsin » Madison » Madison Theatre
Also known as Orpheum Theatre, Garrick Theatre

Madison Theatre

Madison, WI
113-115 Monona Avenue
, Madison, WI 53703 United States
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: French Renaissance
Function: Unknown
Seats: 908
Chain: Unknown
Architect: George Leslie Rapp, Cornelius W. Rapp
Firm: Rapp & Rapp
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Madison had an earlier Orpheum Theatre which was renamed the Garrick Theatre when the current Orpheum Theatre was finished in 1927. The building was built about 1911 as part of the national Orpheum vaudeville and theatre circuit. It was apparently remodeled into a movie theatre in 1936 and a renamed the Madison Theatre.

It is highly likely that it was capable of showing movies before that time but more research needs to be done on this lost theatre. Good pictures of the building appear in a book entitled Double Take by Zane Williams. The theatre was demolished in 1957. The building is attributed to Rapp and Rapp because of its similarities to Dubuque's Majestic Theatre from 1910 and to other early Rapp and Rapp designs.
Contributed by Paul Wolter

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I just remembered that the theatre was definitely a Rapp and Rapp because it is cited in a newspaper article from the Champaign Daily Gazette dated March 17, 1914 announcing the construction of the new Orpheum theatre in Champaign. The article states, "The plans for the new theatre were prepared by C.W. and George L. Rapp, architects of Chicago. The Rapps who make a specialty of theatre designing. They are the architects of the beautiful Majestic theatre in Chicago and have planned several theatres for the Finn & Heiman company, include (sic) the Orpheum theatre in Madison, Wisconsin..."
posted by Paul W on Apr 15, 2007 at 5:39pm
Here is a vintage photo of the former Madison Theater. Address given with photo is 111 Monona Avenue. Today, that address would be 111 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 20, 2007 at 12:57pm
In this 1932 ad, the theatre is listed as the RKO Garrick: www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/rkousa.jpg
posted by Warren G. Harris on Aug 27, 2007 at 1:14pm
This is a 1934 photo of the Garrick. The street name should be changed to Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard so Google will map the address.

posted by Lost Memory on Aug 6, 2008 at 7:17pm
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