Monty Python and the Holy Grail opened in Chicago at this theatre -opening day coconuts were passed out for the first showing, which was attended by Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, who at one point, told the wildly enthusiastic audience, in his best stiff upper lip accent, that “You are being entirely too noisy!”
I remember as a kid seeing Lawrence of Arabia for the first time in this theater. What was striking about it was that it had a very modernist decor, and how small it was compared to the other theaters of the time (today, of course, it would be considered a large auditorium) The auditorium was long and narrow.
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting on a $5 million project to bring the Rialto Square even closer to its original luster.
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“A Thousand Clowns” ran for almost a year at this house, and DeBroca’s “King of Hearts” for almost as long.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail opened in Chicago at this theatre -opening day coconuts were passed out for the first showing, which was attended by Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, who at one point, told the wildly enthusiastic audience, in his best stiff upper lip accent, that “You are being entirely too noisy!”
I remember as a kid seeing Lawrence of Arabia for the first time in this theater. What was striking about it was that it had a very modernist decor, and how small it was compared to the other theaters of the time (today, of course, it would be considered a large auditorium) The auditorium was long and narrow.