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Home » Theater Guide » Location » Canada » Ontario » Ottawa » Barrymore's Music Hall
Also known as Imperial Theatre

Barrymore's Music Hall

Ottawa, Ontario
323-325 Bank Street
, Ottawa, Ontario K2P Canada
(map)
613.233.0757
Status: Open
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Beaux-Arts
Function: Concerts, Live Performances, Retail
Seats: 400
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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Opened August 24, 1914 as "Canada's Theatre Beautiful", the Imperial Theatre seated 1,091, and was Ottawa's classiest movie theatre until the opening of the Loew's in 1920. For years it catered to children with Saturday serials.

The Imperial closed as a movie theatre in 1955, the building is still in existence. It was split horizontally to accommodate retail uses along the sidewalk while the Beaux-Arts auditorium upstairs is still largely intact and since 1978 has functioned as Barrymore's Music Hall, one of Canada's top live music venues. Using the former balcony area which is now a multi-tiered room with 6-levels on 3 floors, the capacity is now 400.

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Barrymore's Music Hall (Official)
Contributed by Alain Miguelez

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A 1930's photo of the Imperial Theater in Ottawa is here:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/theatres/big/imperial_ottawa_ext.htm

Photo of auditorium:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/theatres/big/imperial_ottawa_aud.htm

Photo of entrance:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/theatres/big/imperial_ottawa_ent.htm
posted by Lost Memory on Mar 26, 2005 at 4:43pm
Exterior, 1938:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012531.jpg
Interior views, 1947:
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012528.jpg
http://ao.minisisinc.com/Webimages/I0012532.jpg


posted by CWalczak on Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04pm
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