Keith Albee Theater
by Christy Saunders Church
Title
Keith Albee Theater
Artist
Christy Saunders Church
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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An acrylic painting of the old Keith Albee Theater in Huntington, West Virginia. The blue-green sign is displayed in front of larger buildings in the background to bring back nostalgia of the old theater days. Keith-Albee is a theatre located along Fourth Avenue in downtown Huntington, West Virginia in the United States of America. The Keith-Albee was named after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation, one of the leading vaudeville performance chains at that time, to convince the directors of Keith-Albee-Orpheum to make the Keith-Albee a regular stop. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Downtown Huntington Historic District, and is currently being restored as a performing arts center. In 1988 the theater hosted a pre-screening benefit of the blockbuster movie Rainman. Actor Dustin Hoffman, as well as director Barry Levinson and producer Mark Johnson, traveled to Huntington and attended the benefit. Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of an autistic savant in Rainman. Levinson and Johnson also won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, respectively.
In December 2006, the Keith Albee hosted the world premiere of the Warner Brothers motion picture "We Are Marshall, the real-life story that begins with the 1970 plane crash that killed all 74 people aboard - Marshall football players, coaches and team supporters. The film's star, Academy Award� winner Matthew McConaughey, filmed much of the movie on location in Huntington and spoke at the premiere. He portrayed real-life Coach Jack Lengyel, who rebuilt the team to victory against all odds the year following the crash. Coach Lengyel was also honored at spoke at the sold-out "We Are Marshall" event.
In January 2006 the Keith-Albee Theatre closed as a functioning movie theater and after almost eighty years of ownership, the Hyman family made the most generous donation of this local institution to the Marshall University Foundation, Inc. who in turn passed it on to the newly formed Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center Foundation.
This theater is located in Huntington, WV. Nearby cities include Ironton, Ohio and Ashland, Kentucky.
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July 22nd, 2018
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