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The Mimi Ohio Theatre is a theater on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, part of Playhouse Square. The theater was built by Marcus Loew's Loew's Ohio Theatres company. It was designed by Thomas W. Lamb in the Italian Renaissance style, and was intended to present legitimate plays. The theater opened on February 14, 1921, with 1,338 seats.
The last theater to be constructed was the Palace Theatre, [7] now known as the Connor Palace, opening in November 1922 in the Keith Building, which at the time was the tallest in Cleveland. [5] There was a great promotion for the theater's opening: the largest electric sign in the world [8] was
The KeyBank State Theatre is a theater located at 1519 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. [1] It is one of the theaters that make up Playhouse Square.It was designed by the noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb and was built in 1921 by Marcus Loew to be the flagship of the Ohio branch of the Loew's Theatres company.
The theater also became the largest American theater devoted completely to motion pictures in 1931. By 1933, the theater went bankrupt and Warner Bros took over operations of the theater. In 1951, the Hippodrome Theater became part of the Telenews chain and the property was purchased by Alvin Krenzler in 1972. [1]
The theatre opened on November 6, 1922, with vaudeville star Elsie Janis headlining. The show was sold out, with several high-profile guests of the entertainment world attending, like Marcus Loew, a pioneer of the motion picture world and founder of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM) film studio, and Adolph Zukor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.
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From 1951–78, the theater offices were home to radio stations WHK (1420 AM) and WMMS nee WHK-FM (100.7 FM); the theater itself was known as the WHK Auditorium. In 1968–69 the theater was known as the Cleveland Grande. In the early 1980s, it briefly re-opened as the New Hippodrome Theatre showing movies. [8] [9]