Saenger Theatre
118 S. Palafox Place,
Pensacola,
FL
32502
118 S. Palafox Place,
Pensacola,
FL
32502
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Saenger Theatre, Pensacola (Official)
Additional Info
Previously operated by: ABC Southeastern Theatres, Saenger Amusement Company
Architects: Charles G. Davis, Emile Weil
Functions: Performing Arts
Styles: Spanish Baroque
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
850.595.3880
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The Saenger Theatre was opened on April 2, 1925 with Theodore Roberts in “The Ten Commandments”. It opened with 1,802-seats. It is equipped with a Robert Morton 4 manual 6 ranks theatre organ. The theatre was completely restored in 1981, as a performing arts center in old downtown Pensacola. Its slight exterior belies its massive auditorium and lobby.
Further restoration began in February 2008 and was completed in September 2009. There is currently work being done to restore and enlarge the Robert Moton organ.
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Can somebody please add the Pen Theatre to this sight. Please give size, projection type. and screen size for what I thought was a wonderful theatre when I was stationed at NAS in 1949, 1963 and 1964 and again in 1983.
I goofed. Not 1949 but 1959.
Help restore the organ @ http://www.pensacolasaenger.com/fos/saenger-pipe-organ/
Can anyone give me some information on finding pictures of the original 1925 seats in the Saenger Theatre? I have one that came from the original theatre and want to restore it but would like to get as close to original in style as possible.
Grand opening ad in the photo section and below.
Found on Newspapers.com
Bdeem, This newspaper article may help.
Found on Newspapers.com
Upcoming Doc Severinsen event at the Saenger Theatre.
https://www.foofoofest.com/events/sketches-of-spain-featuring-doc-severinsen-with-the-pensacola-civic-band/?fbclid=IwAR3ajuq5OdBqMuLfGMMpWgz3s9B2AqQfSeipWYf6ZNDYvXzVtQiIbp8DcJE
Once operated by ABC Southeastern Theatres.
Closed as a movie theater on November 13, 1975 with “Let’s Do It Again” and “Black Eye”.
On October 17, 1947, the Saenger Theatre became headlines after a 74-year-old engineer was killed in a small explosion while fixing an air conditioning unit inside the theater. The explosion sent the engineer John W. Mann to the floor unconscious under portions of machinery. Shards of metal was blown through an open door into the screen itself, and a stream of gas resembling smoke shot out into the lot behind the theater.
The explosion was caused by heavy pressure of gas from a metal pipe in the machinery, and also forced the entire audience of 200 to evacuate the theater during a showing of “Tarzan And The Huntress” (plus an unnamed cartoon, the March Of Time Volume 14 Issue 2 “T-Men In Action”, and a newsreel beforehand).