Vogue Theatre
6675 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6675 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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And looking the opposite way, facing east.
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Sorry these are coming out sideways – I edited the photos in photobucket, rotated them, said to replace original, and it shows up there fine, but not here – how come?
Since there are no shots of the Vogue in its classic 60s mode, here are two from circa 1965ish when What’s New Pussycat was playing.
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Thanks for the update soca109. Bummer I missed ‘Mildred Pierce’ at the Million Dollar. I sure hope there are plans to bring that movie palace back to its original use.
The Last Remaining Seats series during the summer is a great way to see the inside of the old movie palaces on Broadway and watch a classic film projected on a large screen. The recent screening of Mildred Pierce at the restored Million Dollar theater was great. Its beautiful inside although there were complaints of bad sighlines in the back part of the orchestra.
As to the Vogue, there was a lot of work going on for a while but recently, nothing. Not sure what is going on. The place is a real mess and needs to be cleaned up.
As to the comment above regarding the Las Palmas theater, its not empty, it functions as Element nightclub.
Hey, thanks Monika, sure do appreciate you providing the link to Bringing Back Broadway. I think I just might have to join the organization.
Here is a link regarding the Broadway theatres:
http://www.bringingbackbroadway.com/index.html
Every summer the L.A. Conservancy hosts “Last Remaining Seats” to raise money to save the movie palaces on Broadway. Other than the Orpheum being renovated, is ANYTHING being done? The other theaters are just sitting there either for filming or turned into discount stores.
The UA theater in downtown LA is still a church.
That was probably a lot back then – if it’s still 13 mil I can’t imagine why a studio wouldn’t buy it and restore it and make it a flagship house like the El Capitan. All they need to do is make one piece of crap less for the year and voila.
Bruce, When I closed the house as a the Hollywood Pacific in the 90' they were asking around $13 Million for the building.
I’ve heard this comment before about trying to sell Pacific’s. What is the asking price?
Thanks for the input; when did Million Dollar cease being a church?
I hear the theatre Dr. Gene Scott was in is not longer holding services; am I mistaken on that?
Rolando
The Vogue and Fox are turning into some kind of clubs. The Ritz is very small and the Vine’s owner wants any kind of money, if it does not cost him anything out of his pocket to put back into it. (very thifty person) None of those four theatres (Fox,Vogue,Ritz or Vine have stages) The Ricardo Montalban and the Music Box/Henry Fonda were built with stages from the start. It’s mainly the cost of redoing the Pacific, that is stopping that house from returning fully into operation. The theatres along Broadway are better suited as stage theatres, because some of them have small to middle size stages. Million Dollar has returned, the Los Angeles would make a Great house for shows and the State too.
In New York the large Broadway houses doing musicals range from 1000 to 1935 seats.
Thanks for the reply William. My point is that the smaller venues would be perfect for plays. Ever try hearing a play at the Wilshire? Talk about a barn. Perhaps a letter to the L.A. Conservancy or Hollywood Chamber of Commerce might be in order. Not that it would do much.
Well the cost of putting a large Broadway style production on is very high. So those productions need larger size full stage theatres like the Pantages, Mark Tapper Forum the former Wilshire and the razed Shubert Theatre. The Fox, Vogue, Ritz, Vine Theatres are much to small for a true Broadway size musical production. The Pacific Theatre is the right size and would need to enlarge the stage area and remove the 1978 tri-plex remodeling to work. The problem with the Pacific is that it would cost alot of money to return it back to a single stage/screen theatre. Pacific Theatres has been trying to sell the theatre for almost 20 years.
Why can’t all these theatres be converted to legit stages? “Wicked” is closing at the Pantages in January of 2009 to make room for “Mama Mia”, “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Grease” among others. What gives? These shows have played the L.A. area many times through the years. The Pacific Theatre is big enough to handle Broadway musicals. Just as they saved the Ricardo Montalban Theatre, formerly the Dootlittle and Huntington-Hartford, I’m sure the Fox, Vogue, Ritz, Vine and Pacific can be converted. They did that to the Henry Fonda. I’m all for saving Hollywood, so let’s save what’s there. Anybody remember seeing “A Chorus Line” at the Las Palmas back in the early 80s? It was awesome. And not that theatre just sits there.
Rolando
Too be clear, anything in the Vogue is preferable to what we have now, which is nothing.
Pacific Theatres has been trying to sell that building for the last 20 years. It would cost alot to undo the damage that was done in the tri-plexing back in 1978.
I too strongly dislike those trees. Trees on Hollywood Blvd. at all, come on…..
My vote goes to the Pacific to be the next on the renovation list, it’s visually the least sorry looking one of the lot!
Another (nameless) theater I was associated with had the same old problem of trees blocking complete view of the marquee.
A little while after drilling some holes near the base, iron filings were then added and watered regularly… then, the trees gradually gave up living and were promptly removed by the city. Vwalla!
While I like trees, isn’t it ridiculous that they would have planted them in front of a theater marquee? Don’t people think when they are laying these tree locations out?
Here are some March 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/yvvkdv
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http://tinyurl.com/2f5s85
Joe, I went to a restaurant in Bangkok once called Bed where you sit on a bed and eat your dinner while strange performers walk around and do their thing. Very strange place but good food. From some of the descriptions above, they better wash down the Vogue with lots of Lysol before they start serving food in there.
Here’s another link to the above photos, this one includes descriptions
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Part 2, Photos of interior circa 1981-83
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