The theater underwent a $10-million restoration and upgrade in 2000. Now operated by an arm of the Nederlander Organization, the Pantages is one of Los Angeles' leading homes of legitimate theatre and Broadway musicals, including “Lion King”, “Wicked”, and “Hamilton”, and is a favorite location for television shows, movies, music videos and concerts. The Pantages reopened the following month with “Bubbling Brown Sugar”, the first of the many stage productions that have since become its regular fare. It continued to be a major venue for movies well into the 1970s, closing as a movie theatre in January 1977. From 1949 - 1959, the theatre hosted the annual Academy Award Ceremonies. Sold in 1932 to Fox West Coast Theaters, it was purchased in 1949 by Howard Hughes for his RKO Theatre Circuit. The Pantages Theatre Circuit was built around vaudeville and this new Hollywood theatre alternated its programming between first-run movies and vaudeville acts for its first two years before becoming strictly a movie theatre. Marcus Priteca, it was the last theatre built for impresario Alexander Pantages and opened on June 4, 1930. A palatial Art Deco design by architect B.
The Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at 6233 Hollywood Blvd.
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