Mill Run Playhouse
Address |
Golf Road and Milwaukee Avenue Niles, Illinois United States |
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Owner | Rach, Comiskey, and Vaughn, Inc.[1] |
Operator | Mill Run Theater Corporation[1] |
Type | theater in the round |
Capacity | 1,600[2] |
Construction | |
Opened | July 2, 1965 |
Closed | August 1, 1984 |
Demolished | August 1984 |
Architect | Belli & Belli Architects and Engineers[1] |
Mill Run Playhouse (aka Mill Run Theatre)[3] was a 1,600 seat[4] theatre in the round in Niles, Illinois. It was built in 1965 on the grounds of the Golf Mill Shopping Center.[5] It was scheduled to open in June 1965 but torrential rains delayed the opening to July 2, 1965.[6] It was demolished in August 1984.[7] Its last show was a performance by Lou Rawls on August 1.[8]
Notable performers
- Don Adams
- Robert Alda, Lynn Bari, Vivian Blaine, Selma Diamond, Hildegarde, Jane Kean and Mary Small in Follies
- Woody Allen
- Eddy Arnold
- Pearl Bailey
- Gene Barry in Fiddler on the Roof
- Count Basie
- Harry Belafonte
- Tony Bennett
- Jack Benny
- Milton Berle
- Bobby Bland
- John Byner
- Glen Campbell
- Canned Heat
- George Carlin
- The Carpenters
- Vikki Carr
- Jack Carter
- Johnny Cash
- Harry Chapin
- Ray Charles
- Chubby Checker
- Cheech & Chong
- Eric Clapton
- Rosemary Clooney
- Myron Cohen
- Natalie Cole
- Perry Como
- Bill Cosby
- Jim Croce
- Steve Dahl & Garry Meier
- Vic Damone
- James Darren, Reginald Gardiner, Gigi Perreau and Pippa Scott in Tom Jones
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- The Spencer Davis Group
- Marlene Dietrich
- Tom Dreesen
- Ronnie Dyson
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Billy Eckstine
- Lola Falana
- José Feliciano
- Totie Fields
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Redd Foxx
- Sergio Franchi
- John Gary
- Mitzi Gaynor
- Robert Goulet
- Shecky Greene
- Stanley Myron Handelman
- Emmylou Harris
- Isaac Hayes
- Heartsfield
- Heatwave
- Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons
- Bob Hope
- Lena Horne
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Tab Hunter and Ann Sothern in Barefoot in the Park
- Iron Butterfly
- The Jacksons
- Tom Jones
- Gabe Kaplan
- Sally Kellerman
- Chaka Khan
- The King Sisters
- Alan King
- B.B. King
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Kool & the Gang
- Cleo Laine
- Dorothy Lamour in Once More, With Feeling
- Carol Lawrence
- Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé
- Peggy Lee
- The Lettermen
- Jerry Lewis
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Liberace
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Little River Band
- The Manhattan Transfer
- Dean Martin
- Al Martino
- Johnny Mathis
- Barbara McNair
- Sérgio Mendes
- Marilyn Michaels
- Liza Minnelli
- Jim Nabors
- The New Seekers
- Bob Newhart
- The O'Jays
- The Oak Ridge Boys
- The Osmonds
- Jack Palance in Heaven Can Wait
- Dolly Parton
- Tom Paxton
- Freda Payne
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Jean-Luc Ponty
- Louis Prima
- Juliet Prowse in Sweet Charity
- Bonnie Raitt
- Lou Rawls
- Helen Reddy
- Debbie Reynolds
- Don Rickles
- Joan Rivers
- Diana Ross
- Jane Russell in Mame
- Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
- Sandler and Young
- Neil Sedaka
- Sha Na Na
- Frank Sinatra
- Smothers Brothers
- The Spinners
- The Staple Singers
- Donna Summer
- The Supremes
- James Taylor
- The Temptations
- Danny Thomas
- Lana Turner in Forty Carats
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Up with People
- Jerry Vale
- Frankie Valli
- Tom Waits
- Dionne Warwick
- Muddy Waters
- Andy Williams
- Paul Williams
- Pia Zadora
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "New Area Theater To Open". Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Ill.). 22 April 1965.
- ↑ Various sources list 1500, 1700 and 1800
- ↑ "In the Round Down the Drain", Chicago Tribune, December 23, 1983: N16
- ↑ "'Good Theatre is Right Here' is Mill Run Producer's Credo", The Des Plaines Suburban Times, February 7, 1968: 8
- ↑ "Niles Built on Fertile Farmland", Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1986: F19
- ↑ Cannon, Chuck (17 June 1965). "Cannon's Cavalcade". Brookfield Citizen.
- ↑ "Sneed & Lavin INC.", Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1984: 20
- ↑ "Plan Ahead", Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1984: E8