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Teatro Gran Rex
The Teatro Gran Rex is an Art Deco style theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina which opened on July 8, 1937, as the largest cinema in South America.
Located near the centre of the city at 857 Corrientes Avenue, it was designed by the architect Alberto Prebisch, who was also in charge of the construction of the Obelisk, one of the main icons of the city.
The design of the interior was influenced by that of Radio City Music Hall in New York and construction of the theatre was completed in just seven months in association with the engineer Adolfo Moret. The opening caused a sensation and the Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo praised the theatre as an outstanding example of modern architecture from the pages of her influential literary journal, Sur.
Today the theatre has 3,300 seats and, together with the Teatro Opera on the opposite side of the street, is one of the city's most important venues for the staging of international shows.
Chiquititas is the highest-grossing event in the history of the theater. Based on the children-oriented soap of the same name and with the complete cast of the show, six different live musicals were made at Gran Rex during the Winter Vacation from 1996 to 2001. Over 1 million tickets were sold, with the 1998 season being the highest-selling season ever (and the highest attendance ever at Gran Rex up to this days): 240,000 tickets sold.
Concerts
Coldplay
Jason Mraz Rolling Stone
Toto
Interpol
Bjork
Michael Buble
Muse
KT Tunstall
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Medeski Martin & Wood
Echo & the Bunnymen
Liza Minnelli
Asia
Steve Vai
Alice Cooper
Dolores O'Riordan
Electric Light Orchestra
Def Leppard
Alan Parsons
Gloria Gaynor
Flex (singer)
Cat Power Rolling Stone
Aimee Mann La Capital
Cassandra Wilson La Manana Neuquen
References
Ernesto Katzenstein. Argentine Architecture of the Thirties, J. Decorative & Propaganda Arts, Argentine Theme Issue, 1992.
Mimi Bohm. 'Buenos Aires Art Deco y Racionalismo''. Ediciones Xavier Verstraeten, Buenos Aires, 2008.
Arquitectura: Raul Prebisch
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