2023 Rocky Horror Wrap-up!

2023 Rocky Horror Audience

Such an amazing event! Thank you to the 500 attendees for our inaugural Rocky Horror showing! Next year we clearly need to do two nights! Hope you can join us!

Edison’s Vitascope

Edison Vitascope

The Vitascope made its Colorado premiere at Elitch’s the weekend of August 15, 1896.

Mala Powers (1962)

Mala Powers - Historic Elitch Theatre

The 1962 SeasonMala Powers and Charles Braswell were the leads for the first five plays, and Gene Raymond and Jan Clayton were the leads for the last five plays. Mala […]

George Somnes (1936)

George Somnes had long been associated with show business and was considered an artist of the broadest culture, a professional of the highest value in his chosen work and, most […]

Arlene Francis (1964)

Arlene Francis

Tickets for Kind Sir, the opening play of the season, were virtually all sold within three days after the box-office opened. Arlene Francis, the star personality and actress of the […]

Gloria Swanson (1967)

2016-04-25 Gloria Swanson in Reprise

Harold J. Kennedy authored and directed the play Reprise and also co-starred with Gloria Swanson. This was the second consecutive season that Kennedy wrote the opening night play and co-starred as well. […]

Harold Lloyd (1914)

The famous screen comedian, Harold Lloyd, paid an unexpected visit to the Elitch Theatre. In a letter to friends of the Theatre, Arnold B. Gurtler wrote: Mr. Lloyd was simply […]

Lana Turner (1977)

In an interview with Josephine Gonzales, the matron and first aid nurse of Elitch Theatre, in sharing her fond memories of the performers who played Elitch, the news reporter wrote: […]

David McCallum (1976)

David McCallum

David McCallum’s Bio from the Historic Elitch Theatre program from the 1976 production of The Mousetrap: DAVID MCCALLUM (Detective Sergeant Trotter) born in Glasgow, Scotland, worked in amateur theatre groups […]

Mitzi Gaynor (1987)

Mitzi Gaynor - Historic Elitch Theatre Alumna

Audiences were particularly attracted to Mitzi Gaynor, more known to them from her movie musicals, in which she had starred opposite Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. The 56-year […]

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