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Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul
Built in 1910, the Fitzgerald Theater is the oldest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Originally called Sam S. Shubert Theater, was one of four memorial theaters erected by the moguls of the entertainment industry and JJ Lee Shubert, after the death of his brother Sam.
Would be a very elegant building in the style of famous Maxine Elliot Theatre New York, with the typical style of a period of great entertainment entrepreneurs such as JP Morgan or Andrew Carnegie, and James J. Hill of Minnesota, when they built the Shubert Theatre, he was 72 and lived in a mansion in Summit Avenue, a street lined with mansions reminiscent of Victorian and Georgian.
At that time the entertainment industry was booming and the company is worried about problems such as natural resource protection, education and corruption in journalism. Therefore, the work that opened the Shubert Theatre was “The Fourth Estate” by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford about a journalist who works for a metropolitan newspaper. Read the rest of this entry »
Built in 1910, The Fitzgerald Theater is the oldest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Originally called Sam S. Shubert Theater, was one of four memorial theaters erected by the moguls of the entertainment industry and JJ Lee Shubert, after the death of his brother Sam.
Would be a very elegant building in the style of famous Maxine Elliot Theatre New York, with the typical style of a period of great entertainment entrepreneurs such as JP Morgan or Andrew Carnegie, and James J. Hill of Minnesota, when they built the Shubert Theatre, he was 72 and lived in a mansion in Summit Avenue, a street lined with mansions reminiscent of Victorian and Georgian.
In 2001, the directors of the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis, a theater whose history dates back to the ’60s when it was founded by Irish designer, Tyrone Guthrie (1900-1971), along with federal and municipal authorities announced the creation of a new building design which was entrusted to architect Jean Nouvel, mainly because of its special concern for the context and its idea of having rooms vertically, in order to offer the public a view of the landscape.
The location of the new theater is on the banks of the Mississippi River in the historic quarter of the mills, compared to the Falls of St. Anthony and their architectural program is characterized by having in one place three types of room: one of 1100 seats, which repeated open layout of the old theater Guthrie, another 700-seater with a front layout, for the contemporary repertoire, and a study of 250 seats, used theater laboratory.
Built in 1910, the Fitzgerald Theater is the oldest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Originally called Sam S. Shubert Theater, was one of four memorial theaters erected by the moguls of the entertainment industry and JJ Lee Shubert, after the death of his brother Sam.
Would be a very elegant building in the style of famous theater Maxine Elliot in New York, with the typical style of a time of great entertainment entrepreneurs such as JP Morgan or Andrew Carnegie, and James J. Hill of Minnesota, when they built the Shubert Theatre, he was 72 and lived in a mansion in Summit Avenue, a street lined with mansions reminiscent of Victorian and Georgian.
At that time the entertainment industry was booming and the company was concerned about problems such as natural resource protection, education and corruption in journalism. Therefore, the work that opened the Shubert Theatre was “The Fourth Estate” by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford about a journalist who works for a metropolitan newspaper.
The theater had a sophisticated design and luxurious facilities, and was characterized as the most beautiful of all the Northwest. Constructed in steel and concrete, with its facade of sandstone and 16 dressing rooms, the theater could go up or down two meters, had an integrated cleaning system vacuum, and about 2,000 electric bulbs.
Its architecture was ideal for popular productions such as vaudeville, where he presented the brightest stars of the genre. But almost a century in their history suffered several transformations, was theater, renamed in 1981 Garrison Keillor brought his famous radio show “A Prairie Home Companion.” Keillor was a great writer and led a call to rename the theater and give it to F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers, author of The Great Gatsby, who was born in St. Paul and lived a few blocks from the theater.
Currently, the theater maintains its commitment to art and entertainment, making excellent presentations, working in conjunction with Minnesota Public Radio and contributing to cultural and literary development of the community.
The great director Robert Altman filmed the movie “Prairie Home Companion,” written by Garrison Keillor, almost all within the Fitzgerald Theater and starring actors and actresses like Meryl Streep, which tells the story of the last broadcast of a radio variety program The story of a bittersweet goodbye, with lots of music, drama and romance.