Been to several movies here. This is a great theater. Comfortable seats, great view of the screen, incredible atmosphere. Ilived in Boise for 12 years and really enjoyed the times I went to the Egyptian to see films. Boise is a great place to live and work. The theater is the jewel in its crown. And the staff is wonderful. They will let you come in a look around when there is not a film playing. Go see it!
Wow! I went to the web site above and this is going to be a very cool theater! With kitchen facilities, you can have dinner and a movie in one place! The seating chart at the web site showed what appeared to be “sofa” style seats too. More theaters ahve got to do this! I’m in! :–)
Frankly, I think this theater’s reuse for apartments has been nicely done. Certainly this is better than total demolition of the structure. And it has retained some of the nice structural features of the theater.
Okay, to get this right for everyone… you are all sort of correct. The rock group Styx recorded a concept album “Paradise Theater” based on the rise and fall of the real Paradise Theater in Chicago. The inside of the album cover even had a reprint of the newspaper article telling of the theater’s demolition. The songs were fictional accounts of life in and around the Paradise Theater over the span of the theater’s existence. The film “State Street Sadie” was a real film that played at the Paradise Theater. Follow this link and you will see it displayed on the marquee in the third photo down the page, on the first line of the marqee, starring Myrna Loy. http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-ext1.htm
The song “State Street Sadie” was composed by Styx as the closing tune on the album – a sad instrumental played on a solitary out of tune piano. Presumably, the composer, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, saw the photo that the link listed above displays. So everyone was correct, together! ;–)
As for the theater itself, I did a little research on the Paradise a few years back, based on my curiousity and love of theater palaces, and I happen to be a Styx fan as well. I was completely aghast when I first saw the photos of both the exterior and interior of this jewel! While many times venues have claimed to be beuatiful and the finest or most luxurious – this was actually true of the Paradise. I am frustrated at the thought that I will never get a chance to see this incredible structure. So sad it is gone – and that was almost 40 years ago now.
Been to several movies here. This is a great theater. Comfortable seats, great view of the screen, incredible atmosphere. Ilived in Boise for 12 years and really enjoyed the times I went to the Egyptian to see films. Boise is a great place to live and work. The theater is the jewel in its crown. And the staff is wonderful. They will let you come in a look around when there is not a film playing. Go see it!
Wow! I went to the web site above and this is going to be a very cool theater! With kitchen facilities, you can have dinner and a movie in one place! The seating chart at the web site showed what appeared to be “sofa” style seats too. More theaters ahve got to do this! I’m in! :–)
Frankly, I think this theater’s reuse for apartments has been nicely done. Certainly this is better than total demolition of the structure. And it has retained some of the nice structural features of the theater.
Okay, to get this right for everyone… you are all sort of correct. The rock group Styx recorded a concept album “Paradise Theater” based on the rise and fall of the real Paradise Theater in Chicago. The inside of the album cover even had a reprint of the newspaper article telling of the theater’s demolition. The songs were fictional accounts of life in and around the Paradise Theater over the span of the theater’s existence. The film “State Street Sadie” was a real film that played at the Paradise Theater. Follow this link and you will see it displayed on the marquee in the third photo down the page, on the first line of the marqee, starring Myrna Loy. http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-ext1.htm
The song “State Street Sadie” was composed by Styx as the closing tune on the album – a sad instrumental played on a solitary out of tune piano. Presumably, the composer, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, saw the photo that the link listed above displays. So everyone was correct, together! ;–)
As for the theater itself, I did a little research on the Paradise a few years back, based on my curiousity and love of theater palaces, and I happen to be a Styx fan as well. I was completely aghast when I first saw the photos of both the exterior and interior of this jewel! While many times venues have claimed to be beuatiful and the finest or most luxurious – this was actually true of the Paradise. I am frustrated at the thought that I will never get a chance to see this incredible structure. So sad it is gone – and that was almost 40 years ago now.