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LaSalle Bank Theatre Shubert Theatre IL
Until 2006, the LaSalle Bank Theatre was known as The Shubert Theatre, which was opened on New Year's Day in 1906, then known as the Majestic Theatre.
The Majestic Building, the tallest building in Chicago when it was first built, became a Chicago landmark, and the theatre instantly became a popular destination with 12 - 15 vaudeville acts running continuously from 1:30pm to 10:30 pm, six days a week.
The Majestic closed during the Great Depression, but about 15 years later was reopened as the Sam Shubert Theatre.
The Shubert stage
The Shubert stage became home to an astounding array of classic plays and musicals, with earlier classics such as Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, and Guys and Dolls and more recent favorites such as Rent, Chicago-The Musical, Cabaret and the pre-Broadway engagements of The Goodbye Girl and Victor/Victoria.
History
The Bank of America Theatre opened as the Majestic Theatre in 1906 and was Chicago's first million-dollar-plus venue and the city's tallest building at the time. A hot spot on the vaudeville circuit and later host to such luminaries as Harry Houdini and Lily Langtry, the Majestic closed during the Great Depression and was shuttered for 15 years.
Much of the original design was retained when the theatre was remodeled and reopened in 1945, in time for the heyday of favorites like Carousel, South Pacific, and Guys and Dolls.
The Bank of America Theatre has hosted the pre-Broadway world premieres of Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp's Moving' Out and Monty Python's Spamalot. Recent production credits include Edward Albees whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Doubt featuring Cherry Jones.
The Foundation
The Shubert Organization was founded by the Shubert brothers, Sam S. Shubert, Lee Shubert, and Jacob J. Shubert of Syracuse, New York in the late 19th century in upstate New York, entering into New York City productions in 1900. The organization produced a large number of shows and began acquiring theatres. Sam Shubert died in 1905; by 1916 the two remaining brothers had become powerful theatre moguls with a nationwide presence.
By 1929 the Shubert Theatre chain included Broadway's most important venues, the Winter Garden, the Sam S. Shubert, and the Imperial Theaters, and owned, managed, operated, or booked nearly a thousand theatres nationwide. The company continued to produce stage productions in New York until the 1940s, returning to producing Broadway productions in the 1970s after a hiatus.
Reorganization in the Company
The company was reorganized in 1973, and as of 2008 owns or operates seventeen Broadway theatres in New York City: the Ambassador, the Ethel Barrymore, the Belasco, the Booth, the Broadhurst, the Broadway, the Cort, the John Golden Theatre, the Imperial, the Jacobs, the Longacre, The Lyceum, the Majestic, the Music Box, the Schoenfeld Theatre, the Shubert, and the Winter Garden.
It also owns an off-Broadway theatre, the Little Shubert, in New York, the Shubert Theatre in Boston and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia.
Best Known Shubert Theatres
The best known of the Shubert named theatres includes The Shubert Theatre in New York, at 44th Street built in 1913, The Shubert Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts is known as Boston's little princess.
There are former Shubert-owned theatres across the United States that are still referred to by the Shubert name. One of the most famous is the New Haven Shubert, the second theater ever built by the Shubert Organization.
Until the 1970s, it was traditionally where major Broadway producers would premiere their shows before opening in New York. It was immortalized in many mid-20th century films, such as All About Eve.
Another important regional theater was the Shubert in Chicago, Illinois located within the Majestic Building on 22 West Monroe St. originally known as the Majestic Theatre; it was purchased by the Shubert Organization in 1945 and reopened as the Sam Shubert Theatre.
It was sold to the Netherlander Organization in 1991 and in 2005 its name was changed to the LaSalle Bank Theatre.
