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Golden Gate Theatre

1 Taylor St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Mason
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre

Tel. 4155512000
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About Golden Gate Theatre

Stand beneath the sign climbing four stories high that has welcomed theatergoers for over 80 years. You imagine them in formal attire lining around the block for the Golden Gate Theatre's 1922 vaudeville opening. They clamor to see the Marx Brothers and rush screaming by to catch a glimpse of Frank Sinatra at the stage door. They flirt during a double feature and flock to see anything on the Cinerama wide screen. As entertainment evolved, the grand theatre with its magnificent stage and enviable acoustics was altered beyond recognition. Then, ten tons of steel, including an escalator, four tons of plaster, sheet rock, studs and insulation, plus four thousand square feet of plywood was painstakingly removed. The Golden Gate was restored to its original size and splendor to present live theater once again most recently, Broadway blockbusters

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Editorial Review
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Slava's Snowshow
The Forecast is Fun
By Nirmala Nataraj (04/13/2006)

" Russian clown Slava Polunin has all the requisite ingredients for theatrical magic: moon, wind, rainbow, and stars -- you can also throw in some cobwebs, mannequins, and a cavalcade of oddball clown friends for good measure. But be aware that Polunin's celebrated Slava's Snowshow is as capricious as the tricksters who have created it. In Polunin's own words, it is "a theatre of ritual magic and festive pageantry, constructed on the basis of images and movements, games and fantasies". "

Editorial Review
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Evita
A Hurried, Flimsy Affair
By Reyhan Harmanci (03/25/2005)

" "Evita", first staged in 1980 and currently at the Curran Theater, did not age well. The orchestral swells sound like synthesizers; the breathless songs about glamour and stardom must have resonated a lot more when Madonna was actually living as a material girl, not eight years after she played "Evita" in the movie version. The flimsy staging, with a screen showing black and white stills hanging over the performers, as if reminding the audience that the actors bear an extremely superficial resemblance to the historical figures, doesn't add any weight to the affair. "

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