The Golden Gate Theatre
is a performance venue located in San Francisco, CA., first opened in 1922 as a vaudeville venue, and later was a major movie theater. In the 1960's it boasted a Cinerama screen, but by the early 1970's had declined to the point of showing blaxploitation films; it was restored and reopened as a performing arts venue in the late 1970's.
The Golden Gate, as well as the Orpheum and Curran theatres in San Francisco, are part-owned by Carole Shorenstein Hays and James Nederlander. The Golden Gate has brought numerous Broadway shows to Northern California over the years, such as A Chorus Line
, Sweeney Todd
, Stomp
, Hairspray
, Mamma Mia!
, Chicago
, Rent
. The theatre also had the preview engagement of Legally Blonde: The Musical
before it went to Broadway.
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