The Orpheum
Memphis TN
2014

https://orpheum-memphis.com/about-us/history/

Born in 1890. Reborn in 1928. Revitalized in 1977, 1984, and 2015. From vaudeville to Broadway, it is a story of resilience and reinvention that could only happen in Memphis.

Downtown Memphis in the 1970s was not the vibrant area you see today. Many businesses had left the neighborhood a decade prior. The clubs of Beale Street succumbed to disrepair. Single-screen movie theatres were no longer profitable, and Malco decided to sell the Orpheum. Less than 50 years after its lavish revival, the theatre was in danger of demolition. A group of concerned citizens formed the Memphis Development Foundation to save the theatre in hopes of kick-starting a downtown reawakening.