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Mar 5, 2013 · On 6 March 1909 the Bijou reopened under the lesseeship of the World's Pictures Company, and thus became the first 'legitimate' theatre in Melbourne to screen all-film programs on a semi-permanent basis. The opening program, of 18 short comedies, dramas and travelogues, proved immediately popular.
A report prepared for the Minnesota Historical Society says that the theater at 20 N. Washington Avenue opened as the People’s Theater on October 31, 1887. It was renamed the Bijou in 1890, but was destroyed by fire in December of that year.
The Bijou Theatre was a former Broadway theater in New York City that opened in 1878 as Theatre Brighton and was demolished in 1915. It also served as an opera house and silent movie venue throughout its history.
Jan 30, 2019 · The Bijou Theater was located at 20 Washington Ave. No. It was originally called the People’s Theater, designed by architect Harry G. Carter. It opened on October 31, 1887, and was owned by Kohn and Middleton. In July 1889 the People’s was taken over by Jacob Litt, who renamed it the Bijou Opera House.
The first theatre on the site at 217-223 Bourke Street, Melbourne was the Victorian Academy of Music, built for Samuel Aarons, which opened with a performance by Ilma de Murska on 6 November 1876.
Jul 31, 1987 · The entrepreneurial team of Albee and Keith, said to have done for vaudeville what Rockefeller did for oil, opened Bijous in Boston and Philadephia in the 1880s, and thereafter Bijou theaters multiplied like rabbits.
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Jun 11, 2024 · The Bijou Theatre was crowded to excess on Saturday evening, when the new HardingHanson comic opera company opened a season with Lecoca's opera bouffe, ...
