https://evelazarus.com/the-orpheum-theatre-and-a-conversation-with-paul-merrick/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://evelazarus.com/the-orpheum-theatre-and-a-conversation-with-paul-merrick/#comment-2130 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:10:22 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4743#comment-2130 I love the historic photo above: the Victorian house, the Edwardian apartment building and the theatre (with the Hotel Vancouver in the distance). The evolution of a neighbourhood. When I was a child, I thought that just entering the Orpheum was magical. The lobby, the climb up the stairs and the long corridor, then the descent into the lobby before entering the theatre. I didn’t realize until much later that the long corridor was a catwalk over the lane. Placing the narrow frontage on Granville and the bulk of the theatre on cheaper Seymour Street was a stroke of genius. A couple of years ago, we walked to Priteca’s Pantages theatre at Hollywood and Vine, but didn’t see the interior.

]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-orpheum-theatre-and-a-conversation-with-paul-merrick/#comment-1697 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:27:07 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4743#comment-1697 Our very own “Phantom of the Opera” setting!!

]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-orpheum-theatre-and-a-conversation-with-paul-merrick/#comment-1623 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:21:32 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4743#comment-1623 i love Spanish architecture .. most of the building in our place such as this have a touch of Spanish designers.. though its 2014 already but i would still go around places like this… nothing beats well-design theatre…

]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-orpheum-theatre-and-a-conversation-with-paul-merrick/#comment-1616 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 05:28:48 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4743#comment-1616 I took a tour of the Orpheum a few years back and it was exciting to see it in a whole different light from being a spectator in the audience. The tour was given by someone who was involved with the Orpheum for a good number of years — it wasn’t Hugh Pickett but a contemporary of his. We did all the things you mentioned and he also took us up to the dressing rooms that were up a long flight of stairs and then had us run down the stairs as quick as we could saying that’s what the performers had to do. It was interesting to learn how the theatre was actually on Seymour Street but the entrance was on Granville so that it was less expensive/lower taxes, etc. Until he pointed that out, I hadn’t really figured that out after years of entering on Granville, going up the stairs and across. It’s a great tour.

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