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FAMOUS PLAYERS
January/February 1973 PUBLISHED BIMONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE FAMOUS PLAYERS FAMILY OF EMPLOYEES AND ASSOCIATES aa,
Now playing at the Imperial:
the RENOVATORS
There’s a new show at the Imperial Theatre these days, but the daily performances are not open to the public. Heading the cast are architects and engineers with welders and carpenters in strong supporting roles. The downtown Yonge Street theatre, Canada’s largest movie house, is undergoing a $2-million renovation that will create six cinemas under one roof. Opened in September, 1920, as the Pantages, the theatre’s name changed to Imperial nine years later. Many of North America’s leading vaudeville performers appeared on its stage. The cinemas will open at same time and project's target for completion is June 1, 1973.
( Globe And Mail,Toronto )
Winding up in a blaze of glory, fittingly, the last attraction to play the Imperial Theatre before its exciting conversion to a sextet was THE GODFATHER. In its record-breaking run of 24 weeks it played to over 150,000 people with lineups like that shown in the photo right, frequently filling the largest seating capacity in Canada, 3,206 seats.
According to reports this conversion of a single large theatre into six cinemas is the first of its kind on the continent. On completion, sometime in June of this year, present plans call for a total seating capacity of 3,090. One of the most interesting features of the plan calls for two ‘piggy back’’ auditoriums, one on top of the other on what used to be the huge stage area.