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Christopher Cheung / Vancouver Courier August 14, 2014  During a performance at the Orpheum Theatre two years ago, Tony Bennett told musicians to put their instruments down, asked for all sound equipment to be turned off and sang “Fly Me to the Moon” a cappella. Bennett told Vancouverites to hang on to their special theatre on…
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NEWS 1130John Streit July 24, 2014 VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You gaze at its majestic grandeur today on Granville Street and marvel that this was almost torn down in the ’70s and turned into a multiplex. Luckily, the 1927 Orpheum Theatre – orginally built as a moviehouse – is still with us and continues to attract…
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CBC/Huffington Post article Here are five facts you probably didn’t know about the Orpheum: 1. It took less than a year to build (in 1927) “It was a silent movie picture palace and a vaudeville house,” says Rob Haynes, president of the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame Society, the group organizing tours of the theatre. 2. The…
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Turn back the time to the 1960’s when Vancouver had a vibrant supper club and night club scene. “The Cave” and Isy’s Supper Club hosted numerous big name acts from Las Vegas such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Chubby Checker, Della Reese, Bobby Darin, Kenny Rogers, Little Richard and the list goes on and on.…
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The BC Entertainment Hall of Fame performed two very special inductions into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame to coincide with the 95th anniversary of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra were inducted in front of a crowd of over 2700 people in the Historic Orpheum Theatre. Guest of…
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