August Hall
420 Mason Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94102
420 Mason Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94102
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Gigi ran in 4 track magnetic stereo sound at the Stage Door Theatre.
This reopened as Regency 3 on October 9th, 1981. Grand opening ad posted.
The Stage Door/Regency III/Ruby Skye is being reimagined again:
StageDoor
Here is a link to a discussion about the log book from the Stage Door Canteen, appraised on the PBS show, “Antiques Roadshow”.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200405A27.html
In 1958 The Stage Door Theatre had the movie “ Gigi ” starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier
I saw a film with Richard Dreyfus called The Big Fix here. It was a terrible film.
The picture with the Shirley MacLaine film was interesting because my parents took me to it and we had dinner at the steak house next door after the movie.
We moved around a lot because my Dad was in the Army for years.
George Senda
Concord, Ca
Oh now I remember, this theatre reverted to showing live plays because one of the stage theatres around the corner on Geary was damaged during the earthquake and this was used in its place until the other theatre was repaired.
Never knew it was the Stage Door. I was looking for this one under Regency III. So here it is. Anyway, I lived in SF from 1982 to 2001 and in the early 80s I loved coming to this theatre. I saw Children of a Lesser God , Top Gun and Out of Africa here. It was the only theatre in the union square area at the time (before the metreon was built) and it was convenient and a pretty good theatre I remember (for the time).
I believe (and correct me if Im wrong) that this theatre somehow was damaged or closed for some reason around the 1989 earthquake. that seems to be the time I remember no longer going to this theatre.
From the SF Public Library website:
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When it was the Stage Door, I saw Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! here in June of 1973. When it was Regency III, I saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in July of 1986.
The Stage Door was called the Stage Door Canteen during World War II, one of 6 such theatres named after the Stage Door Canteen in New York. Entertainers such as Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Burns & Allen, and others performed there for the troops, as San Francisco was a big military town during that war.
In the 1980s it was revived as the San Francisco Experience, a multimedia multiprojection show owned by Bing Grosby Productions.
The Regency III was not in the same location as the Regency I & II. The Regency I & II were located at Sutter and Van Ness. The Regency III was seven blocks away on Mason Street.
I personally would prefer this listed as the Stage Door, since during most of its life as a theater, this is what it was called.
When it was the Stage Door, it ran foreign art films. I saw several Ingmar Bergman films here in the 1970’s. Walter Reade Theaters ran it until 1978 when they went bankrupt. Blumenfeld took over and called it Regency 3, which showed mostly holdover fare from the Regency 1 & 2 that were several blocks away. A live multimedia show called The San Francisco Experience ran here for a while after Blumenfeld left.