Lyric Theater
1800 Third Avenue North,
Birmingham,
AL
35203
1800 Third Avenue North,
Birmingham,
AL
35203
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The Lyric Theater opened in 1914 as a vaudville theatre.
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On July 18th, accompanied by two assistants, I had the opportunity extensively photograph the Lyric and Alabama Theater (across the street). The photos were taken to compare and contrast the condition of the two theaters and includes a number of wide angle, long exposure images that bring out the detail and vivid color on the inside of both grand old theaters. I’ll post links here to the site the images will be uploaded to. Over 400 photos were taken between the two sites, including backstage, below the stage, storage and mechanical areas, balconies and more. It’s taking a bit to sort out.
I was in Birmingham over the weekend, and was surprised to see how abandoned and unkept this section of the city seems to be. It will be hard to get investors to back the Lyric project until the city cleans the area up a bit! The Alabama across the street is beautiful though!
Records show a Kilgen pipe organ opus 3459 at the Lyric.
Ladies and gents, I just posted a group of interior photos from the Lyric (http://jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com/611040.html) in my blog.
Interesting.
The Lyric Theatre has a new website up:
http://www.lyricfineartstheatre.com/
From the 1940s a photo postcard view of downtown Birmingham that captured a view of the Lyric Theater.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful.
Thanks again Don.
From the early 1900s a night time postcard view of Third Avenue along with the Bijou Theater in Birmingham.