Boston Venues:

Agganis Arena
Avalon
Bank of America Pavilion
Berklee Perfomance Center
Boston Opera House
Boston Symphony Hall
Cape Cod Melody Tent
Charles Playhouse
Colonial Theatre
Conte Forum
Cutler Majestic Theatre
DCU Center
Fenway Park
Fleet Center
Gillette Stadium
Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Mullins Center
Orpheum Theatre Boston
South Shore Music Circus
Tanglewood
TD Banknorth Garden
TPC of Boston
Tsongas Arena
Tweeter Center Boston
Wang Center - Boston
Worcester Centrum Centre

Orpheum Schedule

Fri - 04/06/07 - G3
Fri - 04/06/07 - Joe Satriani
Fri - 04/06/07 - John Petrucci
Fri - 04/06/07 - Paul Gilbert
Sat - 04/07/07 - Iggy and The Stooges
Thu - 04/12/07 - Great Big Sea
Sat - 04/14/07 - M. Ward
Sat - 04/14/07 - Norah Jones
Thu - 04/19/07 - Corinne Bailey Rae
Thu - 04/19/07 - John Legend
Fri - 04/20/07 - Patty Griffin
Sat - 04/21/07 - Bob Saget
Fri - 04/27/07 - Modest Mouse
Thu - 05/10/07 - Arcade Fire

The Orpheum is one of the oldest Cinema Treasures in the country.

Opened in 1852, the theater has hosted everything from vaudeville to symphony to movies and is now a rock concert venue.

The original entrance was on Washington Street (just down the street from the old Paramount and RKO Keiths/Opera House), in the heart of Boston's downtown shopping district, but that entrance was turned into a retail store and patrons now must walk down a back alley to get in.

The Orpheum was host to a now-famous U2 concert and has hosted innumerable acts over the years.

It has remained one of the most popular concert venues in all of New England.

Originally it had 3 entrances, the one mentioned on Wash. St., the current one from the alley called (I think) Hamilton Place, and one off Winter Street via the alley called 'Music Hall Place'. The theater was first a music hall, then had a mezzanine and balconies added by architect Clarence Blakhall, around WW I; he also had his offices somewhere in the building. (He designed the Colonial, the Tremont Temple, the Wang Ctr, etc). The area at the Music Hall Place entrance is now part of the food court for a conglomeration of retail stores called 'the Corner', which replaced Gilchrist's dept. store in the 80s. A friend told me they used to have ballroom dancing on the lower level of the current food court, so people could make a night of it when they went to the Orpheum. I went to many first run movies there as a teenager in the late 50s and early 60s. One reason we kids liked it was it was easy to sneak in! There were stage and fire exit doors unguarded at the alley off Bromfield St., and they were often left open from one group of kids to another.

The Orpheum was called the Music Hall in the 19th Century and was the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra until it moved to its new concert hall at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Back Bay, namely Symphony Hall.

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