Since my initial post on Denels Music Store I found some interesting information on the
Turnabout Theatre.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8032
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8032
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The
Turnabout Theatre was located at 716 N. La Cienega Boulevard from 1941 to 1956. Regularly selling out all seats (attracting both general public as well as many of Hollywood's top stars), the theater offered entertainment that combined both puppet (marionettes) for the first half of a show and a stage revue for the second half.
Below: A view of the theater entrance from the courtyard.
http://dbase1.lapl.org/turnabout/
Now here's the interesting part.
The name of the theater derives from the fact that the seats were old 'red car' trolley seats that could be turned
* to face a puppet stage at one end or the live revue stage at the other. At intermission theater-goers would '
turn about' to see the show continued at the opposite end of the building.
* At the end of a route, instead of turning the trolley, the seats would be folded up & then unfolded to face in the opposite direction.
You can still experience this on the St. Charles Streetcar Line in
New Orleans (
G_W's old stomping grounds).
below: The unique interior of the
Turnabout Theatre.
http://dbase1.lapl.org/turnabout/
The seats were covered in blue seatcovers and each was given humerous names such as 'Hot n' Bothered', Salt n' Pepper', 'Knit n' Purl' among others.
below: One of the blue seatcovers.
http://dbase1.lapl.org/turnabout/
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This theater interested me because I have a bit of a 'puppet' chapter in my background.
I worked with Redmoon Theater in Chicago for about 5 years.
I was a feature player in the outdoor spectacle below...
http://www.redmoon.org/events/third-...ectacle-parade
and in this, my
favorite.
http://www.redmoon.org/events/long-l...e-king-is-dead
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