Lyric Theatre
Main Street,
Carmen,
OK
73726
Main Street,
Carmen,
OK
73726
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The Lyric Theatre was downtown Carmen’s first theatre. It launched with a live play, “Daughters of the Desert” on December 17, 1912. The Lyric Theatre switched to a combination of motion pictures with live acts. It moved to a new location in 1921 also on Main Street. It closed for the summer of 1922 in favor of the cooler, Big Tent Show operation.
The Lyric Theatre reopened in the Fall of 1922 closing again after shows of “The Storm” on June 2, 1923. It did not reopen. It made headlines on August 18, 1923 when the Ku Klux Klan placed a burning cross on the roof of the venue. The town got a new movie theatre a year later when the Palace Theatre opened October 16, 1924 in the Sunderland Building.
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