History of American Vaudeville 3rd of 3 [30min]

A look at how some of the finest vaudeville theatres reinvented themselves in order to survive after vaudeville itself withered and died in the 1930s. The Boston Opera House, the Orpheum in Memphis, and the Pantages in Minneapolis are now flourishing theatrical and musical venues, but it took millions of dollars of investment and many long years of painstaking restoration and rebuilding, as well as a change of attitude towards the preservation of the past. Geoffrey Wheeler's series about the history of American vaudeville.