Ryman Auditorium Seating chart

The Ryman Auditorium is one of the most prominent and historically significant venues, located in the town of Nashville in Tennessee. The place was first opened for the audience in the year of 1892, being the ultimate dream of Captain Thomas G. Ryman. Raymon Auditorium had reached to the height of glory, with the arrival of the Grand Ole Opry show in the year of 1943; it was the time for it to get the identity as the Mother Church of Country Music. The Ryman Auditorium had seen a closure in the year of 1974, due to the relocation of Opry, to its current home at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center; the movement had caused a great loss to Ryman. It had seen a closure for almost twenty decades, and it was reopened in 1994, after a great restoration and renovation, to reach up to the stature of a national showplace.

Ryman Auditorium has an honor of hosting number of great performers and intellectuals like Enrico Caruso, John Philip Sousa, Charlie Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt. The greatest achievement of the venue is the arrival of Grand Ole Opry, the attraction of it had let many great names, to perform at the stage of Ryman. Every visitor is advised to enjoy the great bluegrass shows, held in the summer.

The Ryman shows go to packed theatre, so to avoid the parking problem; it is advisable to get there, with a margin of time, and to park at the Church Street parking garage less than two blocks away. It is one such place, where musicians like Roy Acuff, James Brown, Patsy Cline and Sheryl Crow have performed, providing the place of a great reputation. Ryman Auditorium has been such a magnificent place, as to be an ideal shooting spot for many of the great movies. There are such wonderful movies like Nashville; W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings; Coal Miner's Daughter; Honkytonk Man; and Sweet Dreams of 1985. The venue was also used in the 2006 film named Neil Young: Heart of Gold. If the television audiences remember the once famous The Johnny Cash Show, it was shot in our very own Ryman Auditorium. The show was really very popular and continued for two years on the ABC network from 1969 to 1971. The Ryman Auditorium had the honor of being named in the Pollstar Magazine's National Theatre of the Year for two consecutive years of 2003 and 2004, by winning over the other great venues like New York's Radio City Music Hall and Hollywood's Gibson Universal Amphitheater.

It is really very interesting to mention here, that every dressing room behind the stage has been dedicated to the legendary performers like Johnny Cash and Minnie Pearl and others. The visitor tour has confirmed that the Ryman Auditorium has been ranked to be having a second best acoustics in the world. The Grand Ole Opry has the tradition of returning to the Ryman Auditorium on an annual basis for the shows from November through February.