It remained dark until 1943, when it once more hosted legitimate fare.
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In 1937, it once again was a movie house, but by the end of the same year, was closed. The Bijou Theatre opened on Apwith the play “The Knife” and continued as a legitimate theatre until 1935, when it switched to an all-cartoon movie format, but only briefly, since by 1936, it had returned to legitimate theatre. Krapp.ĭesigned in refined Louis XVI style inside, featuring an original color scheme of blue, ivory and gold in its auditorium, the Bijou Theatre was planned as the Theatre Francais, and was to have featured French stage classics, but at the last moment, that idea was scrapped, though the French-themed decor remained. So adding the youth-friendly programs will just add more vibrancy to the business and the corridor and bring people around more regularly.The smallest of the Broadway theatres opened by the Shubert Brothers, the Bijou Theatre, which seated 603, was situated between the Morosco Theatre and Astor Theatre, and was designed by the Shubert Brothers' house architect, Herbert J. "He's (Zayas) 100 percent right that you need a more rounded audience. to downtown Bridgeport, more reasons to come and stay downtown," she said. "The key is having as many days that there's something happening as possible."Īnd Lauren Coakley Vincent, who runs the Downtown Special Services District that markets the neighborhood, believes not just the theater but neighboring establishments will benefit.
"So many businesses wish there were more ways to use their space, right?" Kuchma said. Kuchma is pleased with the new direction at the Bijou. So he's (Peterson) been staying on board with me temporarily just to help me understand this whole process of how everything works, from booking a concert to booking a play or show.” "Jumping in over here, there’s so many moving parts. The next one comes in a half hour later, then we do another. You book a party room two hours, they leave. If you just said, 'The Bijou is now doing kid's birthday parties' nobody would come."Īnd he admitted he also has had plenty to learn about running a theater and has been getting help from his immediate predecessor running the Bijou, Gary Peterson. "We are saying, 'Star Factory at the Bijou,'" he said. But there will be a re-branding of the latter. Zayas emphasized he is not relocating the Star Factory out of Stratford and will run that site along with the Bijou. and seeing on our sign we're doing children's birthday parties and once in the venue they see how beautiful it is, it's like, 'Our son would love this.'" How fun is that going to be for a bunch of moms to go to something like that? And vice-versa. "That's an automatic ticket sale for them. "So a mom coming to a birthday party sees that a 'boy band' tribute (band) is coming," Zayas said. So between my birthday parties, my theater program, financially that will just put the theater over the top."Īnd Zayas also believes the expanded offerings will help create new fans of the Bijou's regular programming. "That was a deciding factor - what I could bring there to enhance what's already there. "If you do just the concerts and the movies and things like that, it's very difficult to maintain a theater of that size," Zayas said. Besides the parties, Zayas intends to offer a children's acting/performance program at the Bijou as well.
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