Lyric Theatre

135 College Avenue,
Blacksburg, VA 24060

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on May 2, 2025 at 4:35 am

Commonwealth Theatre Circuit’s Lyric Theatre “#3” was dedicated on April 24, 1930. The $100,000 venue was the sound era version of the Lyric. It completed 60 years of leasing closing on May 6, 1990 with the venue being transferred to the local university which had been hosting classes in the building. “The First Power” was the last film shown. The theatre was then relit primarily as a performance space but also playing some major Hollywood hits after making the conversion to digital projection.

Dragonlace1
Dragonlace1 on August 19, 2012 at 3:06 pm

My first movie there as a VT student was “Mandingo.” I saw many movies there; one of my favorites was getting to see “Dirty Dancing” there the weekend it opened. This is also where I saw “Blazing Saddles” for the first time.

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on November 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm

A recent article about the Lyric:
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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 9, 2006 at 3:48 pm

Here is a photo, circa 1934:
http://tinyurl.com/pw65n

William
William on December 6, 2003 at 5:07 pm

When the Lyric Theatre was a movie theatre it seated 757 people.

Colin
Colin on January 17, 2001 at 5:07 pm

The Lyric’s web site can be found at www.thelyric.com – check it out!