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Gusman
Center for the Performing Arts Miami
Location: 174 E. Flagler St., at N.E. 2nd Ave., Miami
If you have the opportunity to attend a concert, ballet,
or touring stage production at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, do so.
Originally a movie palace, this 1,700-plus-seat theater is as far from a mall multiplex
as you can get. The auditorium was built as the Olympia Theater in 1926, and its
ornate palace interior is typical of that era, complete with fancy columns, a huge
pipe organ, and twinkling "stars"
on the ceiling. Rudy Vallee, Martha Raye, Elvis
Presley, and Jackie Gleason all performed in this former movie palace, now restored
as a concert hall with a fabulous marquee. Resembling a Moorish courtyard inside,
with twinkling "stars" in the "sky," it hosts the annual Miami Film Festival and
other cultural events.
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