Royal Theatre
277 Brightman Street,
Fall River,
MA
02720
277 Brightman Street,
Fall River,
MA
02720
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Being torn down today - https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/historic-fall-river-building-to-be-torn-down-after-fire/. The article says the building was sold a year ago for $10k to an owner who wanted to restore it as a theater.
The building burned last night. The article says it was vacant but most recently housed a casket manufacturer. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/se-mass/fire-rips-through-fall-river-building/
The Fall river Herald did a write-up about this theater in 2016 when it was auctioned off (well, they tried to. No one bid on it). It appears that the attempt from 2005 to restore it has long since been abandoned. It should be moved out of the restoring category.
article link here: https://www.heraldnews.com/news/20160803/side-streets-piecing-together-history-of-royal-theater-building-no-one-wants
Nice 1941 photo.
There aren’t any references to this address on the Youth Musical Theater website:
http://www.ymtc.org/
Anyone know what happened to the plans to renovate this? I can’t find anything on it since February of 2005.
This 1941 photo of the marquee and front of the Royal, though from a photocopy of very poor quality, gives an idea of what the place looked like. It is from the M.G.M. Theatre Photograph and Report. The condition was described as good, the type of patronage was stated as “mill and low income.” The seating at the time was 600 with 550 on the main floor and 50 in the balcony. The Royal had been playing M.G.M. product for three years. A competing theatre was given as the Strand.
In a 1990 Fall River Herald article on the city’s theatres, John McAvoy wrote, “The Royal Theatre (capacity 500) was located on the south side of Brightman Street near the railway tracks. I was only in the Royal once, but I remember when a train passed by you could feel the vibrations in the theatre.”
Here are two recent photos I took of the Royal. ONE TWO
The article that you linked to says Royale, not Royal. Which is correct?
See article at View link . Status should be changed to restoring.
The building is being
restored as a theater again!Hopefully,it will be the new home of the Youth Musical Theater.This group has already been using the space for rehearsals,and hope to have a performance there in September.