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Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre

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live music, live concert, live performance, comedy, watch live comedy
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theater
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historic, artsy, authentic, conservative, family friendly
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full bar, wine, appetizers
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satire, rant, metal, death metal, neoclassical metal
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Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre
189 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M5B 1M4

416-314-2901

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  1. WegoMan wrote on October 31, 2009:

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    According to Wikipedia:
    The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. The pair were originally built as the centrepiece of Marcus Loew’s theatre chain in 1913. The building was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, who also built The Canon Theatre. The ornate lower theatre, then named Loew’s Yonge Street Theatre, was home to plays and vaudeville productions that attracted some of the world’s top talent. The upper level Winter Garden, which is decorated to resemble a forest, also housed vaudeville productions.

    In 1928, the decline of vaudeville forced the Winter Garden to close, and it remained shuttered for several decades. Left inside it was a large collection of vaudeville props and scenery, now the world’s largest surviving collection. The lower theatre was eventually transformed into a cinema. Over time the building gradually deteriorated, as did the theatre. In 1969, Loews sold the Elgin to Famous Players. By the 1970s, the Elgin was showing mainly B movies and soft core pornography. In 1981 the Ontario Heritage Foundation bought the structure from Famous Players and set about restoring the two theatres.

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