Rialto Square Theatre Tickets
The Rialto Square Theatre is a theater in the Chicagoland city of Joliet, Illinois. It was a movie theater at one time, but it now houses mainly plays and stand up comedy as well as some concerts for musical artists.
The Rialto was one of Al Capone's favorite haunts. Rialto Square Theatre Tickets It was also the place where Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry held their wedding reception in the final episode of My Fair Brady.
The construction of a "vaudeville movie palace" in Joliet, Illinois was the undertaking of the six Rubens brothers. The Royal Theatre Company was formed to guarantee the 2 million dollar project. Rialto Square Theatre Tickets With the opening of the theatre on May 24, 1926, the Royal Theatre Company leased the operation of the theatre to the Great States Theatre, Inc. The property remained under the control and direction of the Rubens brothers.
The esplanade, or inner lobby, is designed after the Rialto Square Theatre Tickets Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France. The arch between the esplanade and rotunda area has been carefully copied from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. In the center is the head of the goddess Athena.
To the upper right of the arch is a symbolic bas-relief, Rialto Square Theatre Tickets in the form of a dragon, entitled "Labor Fighting the Evils of Today." On the left side is "Man's Labor," showing the harvesting of wheat.
The elegant rotunda is surrounded by 18 Corinthian-style columns, and surmounted by a dome very similar to the Pantheon in Rome. The suspended eight-arm crystal chandelier, the "Duchess," bronze giant of some Rialto Square Theatre Tickets 200 fixtures, is 20 feet long with 250 lights. The large prisms are of the Marie Therese cut which was popular during the Rococo period.
Draperies throughout the theatre were of the early Dufour period. Rialto Square Theatre Tickets Encircling the rotunda in full view, is the Goddess of the Eastern Star.
Today, the Rialto celebrates years of applause - your applause - for the vision and restoration efforts by Dorothy Mavrich and countless others, for the arts and entertainment that enrich our daily lives, and Rialto Square Theatre Tickets for the Rialto - The Jewel of Joliet.
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