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Once a year, the historic Tennessee Theatre invites KHP to lead an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour with historian Jack Neely of Knoxville’s 1928 Moorish-revival “motion-picture palace.” Jack researched and wrote the official history of the cathedral-like venue, The Tennessee Theatre: A Grand Entertainment Palace (2015).As you tour the theatre, Jack will relate the theatre’s extravagant story, which has included countless first-run regional movie premieres (and a few world premieres), but also thousands of live performances: on that stage, Desi Arnaz sang Cuban songs and demonstrated the rhumba; Glenn Miller led his famous orchestra in a national radio broadcast; Fannie Brice and the Ziegfeld Follies drew a standing-room-only audience, the biggest in the theater’s history; the legendary cowboy Tom Mix hosted a small rodeo; and, in recent years, major performers Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Lionel Hampton, and composer Philip Glass gave concerts to big audiences, some of which have earned international attention. It was also the first theater that Roy Acuff performed in, and the last for Chet Atkins.
A limited number of tickets are available for this tour at $30.00 per person plus fees. Register now to avoid disappointment.
*Please note that you will not receive a physical ticket for this event, therefore the only way to purchase a ticket and have your name on our list will be through our website.
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Tennessee Theatre, 602 S Gay St SW, Knoxville, TN 37902-1605, United States
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