Tupelo Community Theatre
200 N. Broadway,
Tupelo,
MS
38802
200 N. Broadway,
Tupelo,
MS
38802
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1919 map calls it the Comus, 1924 map calls it the Strand.
There’s an old Tupelo legend that Elvis had his first kiss in the Lyric Theater’s balcony. Can’t vouch for this, for obvious reasons, but there you go.
On this 75th Anniversary of Elvis’s birth I wonder if he actually ever attended this theatre as a boy or performed on its stage. Anyone know?
The community playhouse formerly known as the Lyric – a rainy day in Tupelo, summer 1996:
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