1935

Roy Roberts and Nancy Sheridan were the leads. More comedies were presented this year at Elitch because the company selected was especially suited for comedies, although their years of experience […]

1934

The season opened with the A. E. Thomas comedy No More Ladies, a Lee Shubert production that closed for the summer at the Morosco Theater in New York, to be […]

1933

1933 - Historic Elitch Theatre - Elitch's Theatre - Summer Stock Cast Photo (History Colorado)

The regular season at Elitch Theatre was to open with the play Forsaking All others, However, the season began earlier than scheduled with another play. A road show production of […]

1932

Selena Royle was the leading woman and Roger Pryor the leading man. G. Bradford Ashworth returned to handle the scenic end of the productions. The director for the season was […]

1931

Carlton Miles, a former drama editor of the Minneapolis Journal who, a few seasons earlier, had served as a press agent at Elitch Gardens, wrote a tribute for the then […]

Walter Pidgeon (1964)

Walter Pidgeon agreed to come to Elitch for this 1964 season to perform in Take Her, She’s Mine only after Miss Bonfils and Connor convinced him that Denver’s mile-high altitude […]

Milton Sills (1912)

“Milton Sills, one of the most charming young men I ever knew, came as my leading man, and Louise Woods as leading lady, for a limited engagement. Their first presentation […]

Donald Cook (1930)

Donald Cook made his Broadway debut in 1926 as Donn Cook, and was billed as Donn Cook at Elitch during this season. During the 1930 engagement at Elitch, Cook met […]

Blanche Walsh (1901)

In 1901 Walsh did a four-week engagement at the Elitch Theatre. She opened in Under Two Flags, the dramatization of Ouida’s novel by Denverite, Edward Elsner. The biographer of Mary […]

1930

On January 14, 1930, John M Mulvihill passed away at his home in Denver at 4209 W. 38th Avenue. In the Denver Post “A Tribute of Appreciation” was presented in […]

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