Joy Theatre

219 W. Reno Avenue,
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

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missmelbatoast
missmelbatoast on July 23, 2010 at 2:48 am

This montage of bouncy burlesque queens illustrates the type of struo routine performed live upon the Joy runway-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdt0aLl3Bg

missmelbatoast
missmelbatoast on October 24, 2009 at 5:24 pm

Besides stage films, the Joy also screened burlesque clips between live strip shows. Example;
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seymourcox
seymourcox on November 10, 2007 at 6:12 pm

This snazzy album plays peppy burlesque tunes …
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Rodney
Rodney on October 31, 2007 at 1:40 am

Hear an actual Gypsy Rose Lee burlesque routine -
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as presented on this site -
http://www.unicornmeat.com/

seymourcox
seymourcox on February 18, 2007 at 2:18 pm

OKC’s Joy Burlesque Theatre strip queens were usually accompanied by only a three piece band consisting of drums, piano, and sax. On special occasions when a big name burlesque star was featured the Joy would enlarge its pit orchestra.
Hear samples of classic bump-n-grind burlesque tunes on below link;
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xxx
xxx on May 7, 2006 at 8:54 pm

Rick:
Use this web address to see a 1930’s photo of the PIX-
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raubre
raubre on May 7, 2006 at 6:12 pm

I don’t think the link Okie provided is working.

xxx
xxx on May 7, 2006 at 5:51 pm

Research has revealed that the Joy Burlesque Theatre usually presented “stag” films between their four-a-day strip shows.

Also see these burlesque web pages 7 links-
http://www.burlesquehistory.com/index.html

Okie
Okie on March 26, 2006 at 4:40 pm

Sorry! Try this address instead-
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Okie
Okie on March 26, 2006 at 4:37 pm

Joy Burlesque Theater opened in the early 1940s and was located on bawdy Reno Street where it competed with the Reno Burlesque and (immensely popular) Gaiety Burlesque, the Joy lasted only a few years until the WWII war time cash boom fizzled, then operated as a shady nightclub until razed in 1971. No newspaper ads have been located to indicate that the Joy ever showed motion pictures.
Five small theaters were located within a three block area on Reno Street- Gaiety, Isis, Joy, Pix, and Reno.
Click here to see noted Photographer Dorothea Lange’s 1937 print of the Pix, a Paramount theatre;
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