| has gloss | eng: The Orpheum Theatre on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, opened on February 15, 1926 as the fourth and final Los Angeles venue for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. After a $3 million renovation, started in 1989, it is the most restored of the historical movie palaces in the city. The Orpheum has a Beaux Arts facade designed by movie theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh and has a Mighty Wurlitzer organ, installed in 1928, one of three pipe organs remaining in Southern California venues. Broadcasts of American Idol and America's Got Talent and filming of The Last Action Hero and Transformers were hosted here. The Orpheum also appeared as an arena in the 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. In the 2007–2008 film In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Wilson (Scoot McNairy) and Vivian (Sara Simmonds) do a quick tour of the Orpheum on their "first date." The love metal band HIM played there for their CD/DVD live album Digital Versatile Doom. |
