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Eight days later, the Ziegfeld Theatre closed as a large single-screen movie theater with a final showing of the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [9] [10] The theater underwent a major renovation and reopened in November 2017 as a luxury event space called the Ziegfeld Ballroom.
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Built just a few hundred feet from the site of original Ziegfeld Theatre (demolished in 1966), this ‘new’ Ziegfeld Theatre opened December 17, 1969 with a gala premiere of “Marooned” starring Gregory Peck.
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6 days ago · The current building of the same name, converted into an ballroom event space in 2017, was built in 1969 next door to an earlier version.
Dec 12, 2017 · Built in 1969, it was a replacement of the original Ziegfeld Theatre opened next door by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (the Broadway showman known for the Ziegfeld Follies). It had 1,131 seats...
Jan 31, 2016 · A Fond Farewell to NYC’s Ziegfeld Theatre. At the conclusion of business on January 28th, 2016, the Ziegfeld closed its doors for the final time. Even though it hosted many world premieres and regular movie showings, it simply could not turn a profit and the huge annual losses it carried could no longer be sustained.
Jan 28, 2016 · of. By Ginger Adams Otis. PUBLISHED: January 28, 2016 at 5:58 p.m. | UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 3:41 a.m. It’s curtains for the Ziegfeld Theater. The iconic movie theater’s final screening...
Long before the 1969 opening of the current Ziegfeld Theatre single-screen movie theatre (closed January 2016), there was an earlier Ziegfeld Theatre, an Art Deco masterpiece designed for legit theatre use.