Majestic Theater
1925 Elm Street,
Dallas,
TX
75201
1925 Elm Street,
Dallas,
TX
75201
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Designed by John Eberson and opened in 1921, The Majestic Theater began as a home for both movies and vaudeville shows and had an original seating capacity of 2,800. In 1932, the Majestic began showing movies exclusively. Film was the main attraction for the Majestic until dwindling downtown audiences and poor ticket sales drove the theater out of business in 1973.
The theater was reopened by the city of Dallas along with donations from private and corporate supporters in 1983 after undergoing a transformation to accomodate more seating for performing arts and concerts.
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A photo from May 2010:
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Strictly a live performance venue with great seating, sight lines and sound. Projection capabilities are long gone.
Three Stooges Texas Connection
The Three Stooges performed here during the vaudeville area which would have been during 1921-1934 for them. At the time they were working with Ted Healy and the act was called “Ted Healy and his Stooges”. Healy was the star and was the most successful vaudeville performer in the country making $9000 a week in the 20s. Healy started out as a cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle and met vaudeville performers and entered show business. You can hear a radio interview with Stooge Moe Howard talking about when they performed at the Dallas Majestic Theater and did a joke about Baylor University and the people of Texas where planning on throwing eggs at them! Its on the DVD Stooges Men Behind the Mayhem
http://www.amazon.com/Stooges-The-Men-Behind-Mayhem/dp/B00080ZGZQ
http://ladailymirror.com/2013/05/31/the-death-of-ted-healy-part-4/
Circa 1950 photo added courtesy of Gianni Corso.
1956 photo added of the opening of “Giant”, photo courtesy of Wendy Wilson. Whose mother worked in the concession stand at this time. Via the Traces If Texas facebook page.
1967 photo added courtesy of the Traces Of Texas Facebook page.
1976 photo added courtesy of the Vintage Everyday Facebook page.
15th Annual Holiday Extravaganza image added credit The Polyphonic Spree.
Majestic in 1970 at 1:02 in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zn97VZ5j9Y&feature=youtube.com
1959 the Majestic had the “world premier” of “The Killer Shrews” and “The Giant Gila Monster” twin bill. Newspaper article added to the “Photo” section.