Grace Theater

19 N. Main Street,
Grace, ID 83241

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Grace Theater

Built on the site of the Grace Opera House (pre-1913), which was destroyed by fire on May 16, 1956. The Grace Theater opened on February 7, 1957. It was demolished in July 1961.

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on January 31, 2012 at 4:03 am

The Grace Theatre presented vaudeville as well as movies in its early years. In her 1959 memoir Early Havoc, actress June Havoc recalled the Grace Theatre as one of the venues her family’s vaudeville act played. Havoc’s older sister achieved fame in her own right as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and young June was immortalized in the musical Gypsy as Baby June and Dainty June, the star of the struggling vaudeville act put together by her ambitious mother, Rose.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 27, 2023 at 3:28 am

Photos of Bert Orr, owner of the Grace Opera House, and of the original building itself when it was nearing completion, can be seen on page 213 of a local history published by the Grace Literary Club in 1977.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 27, 2023 at 8:00 am

The 1916 opening date is a bit late. The Grace Opera House is listed in the 1913-1914 Cahn Guide. Page 17 of the book I linked to in my previous comment has a photo of Main Street dated “around 1913” and showing the Opera House already there.

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