36-528: [REDACTED] Look up opening night in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Opening Night may refer to: Premiere , the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition Film [ edit ] The Opening Night , a 1927 American silent drama directed by Edward H. Griffith Opening Night (1977 film) , an American drama by John Cassavetes Opening Night (2013 film),
72-551: A 2000 album by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Opening Night (musical) , a 2024 musical by Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove Opening Night (novel) , a 1951 novel by Ngaio Marsh Opening Night (video game) , a 1995 edutainment computer game Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Opening Night . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
108-748: A business deal. Zukor agreed to buy the San Francisco theaters from the Graumans and also to assist them with financing in beginning their theater business in Los Angeles. Grauman introduced film shows to San Jose, California . On February 7, 1903, Sid Grauman opened the Unique Theatre at 20 East Santa Clara Street in San Jose. The theatre presented movies, stock theater companies, amateur nights, and vaudeville acts. The most notable amateur to develop his talent there
144-524: A destroyed church, he set up on the site where the Unique once stood. The Graumans posted a sign outside of their makeshift theater that said: "Nothing to fall on you but canvas if there is another quake." The family received a commendation from the City of San Francisco for their help in boosting citizens' morale during the trying times. They operated their tent theater for two years; by that time David Grauman had opened
180-485: A dollar each. Grauman told a story about a store owner who purchased a newspaper from him for $ 50. The shopkeeper then read the paper aloud in his store, charging admission to local miners. In the Yukon, the young Grauman learned a lesson which would serve him the rest of his life: that people would willingly pay handsomely for entertainment. Sid and his father began organizing events like boxing matches, which paid them well. It
216-623: A film featuring Tuesday Knight Opening Night (2016 film) , an American musical comedy directed by Isaac Rentz Television [ edit ] Opening Night , a 1958 American television series consisting entirely of reruns of episodes of Ford Theatre Opening Night (TV series) , a 1974–1975 Canadian television series Episodes [ edit ] "Opening Night" ( Curb Your Enthusiasm ) "Opening Night" ( Glee ) "Opening Night" ( Parenthood ) "Opening Night" ( Schitt's Creek ) "Opening Night" ( Smash ) Other uses [ edit ] Opening Night (album) ,
252-599: A theater called the New National Theater. The Graumans expanded their theaters within a short period of time, opening the Imperial and the Empress in San Francisco, and branching out further to other Northern California cities. By 1917, the Graumans decided they would relocate to Los Angeles and build theaters there. They approached Adolph Zukor , who would go on to be the owner and founder of Paramount Pictures , regarding
288-662: A theater. With the Unique Theater gone and the Lyceum unable to be occupied by the Graumans until 1907, father and son appeared to be temporarily out of business when the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 destroyed both the Unique and Lyceum theaters. Sid was able to save one of the theater's movie projectors from the ruins. He was also able to get a tent from an evangelist preacher in Oakland . Putting those together with some pews from
324-601: A time. His parents settled in San Francisco and Grauman joined them there in 1900. David and Sidney Grauman decided to open a vaudeville theater in San Francisco. Their first venture was on Market Street near Mason called the Unique Theater. Before long, they added motion pictures to the vaudeville shows, and another theater called the Lyceum. As the theater manager, though Sid Grauman had seen just about every type of performance, there were some that startled and amazed him, turning down an offer to learn how to swallow swords. The Graumans were also instrumental in establishing
360-529: Is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play , film , dance , musical composition , or even a performer in that work. Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film premiere to showman Sid Grauman , who founded Grauman's Chinese Theatre . The first ever Hollywood premiere was for the 1922 film Robin Hood , starring Douglas Fairbanks , in front of the Egyptian Theatre . By
396-606: The Chinese Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre . Grauman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1879, the son of David Grauman (1851–1921) and Rosa Goldsmith (1853–1936). Grauman's parents were theatrical performers on show circuits. They were both Jewish . Grauman and his father went to Dawson City, Yukon , for the Gold Rush when he was a young man. He worked there as a paperboy. Since newspapers were scarce, they could command
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#1732851155205432-754: The Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna on 7 May 1824, and subsequently received a premiere in England at the Argyll Rooms in London on 21 March 1825. When a work originates in a country that speaks a different language from that in which it is receiving its premiere, it is possible to have two premieres for the same work, e.g., the French-language version of the play The Maids by Jean Genet received its British premiere (which
468-487: The Graumans knew people like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, as the stars had performed at one of the Grauman theaters when they were on their way up. David Grauman was the originator of Pickford's "America's Sweetheart" nickname. Grauman, who never married, was devoted to his mother. She was the only non-celebrity whose imprints were taken for display; after Rosa's death, Grauman kept all of her personal effects. Grauman
504-762: The Northwest Vaudeville Company, which stretched from San Francisco to Minneapolis and Portland , Oregon. The association brought quality live entertainment at reasonable prices to the Northwest area of the United States. David Grauman tried his hand at expanding his theater business in New York City and the East Coast, where he was far from successful; for a time, Sid worked in Scranton, Pennsylvania , at one of
540-492: The Unique Theater. The building had been purchased by the president of the Orpheum Theater circuit and Grauman's rent was doubled by the new owner. The structure was able to house a theater only because Grauman had established one there before a fire ordinance prohibiting it was passed. Before his tenancy was over, Grauman hired a crew of men with axes to demolish the interior of the Unique, so it could not be re-built for use as
576-635: The cancellation of a number festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival , an International film festival called We Are One was organised where films were globally streamed, via YouTube , in an event containing 13 world premieres, 31 online premieres, and 5 international online premiers. Director Lina Soualem [ fr ] , who reluctantly kept her film Their Algeria [ fr ] in for an online premier at We Are One said "At first, your automatic feeling is, 'No, I don't want to do that, ... I felt distressed because this would be
612-489: The completion of the Egyptian Theatre which opened the year after his death. Now working on his own, Sid Grauman began building his last theater, the Chinese Theatre in 1926. It was opened for a premiere on May 18, 1927. There was a crush of onlookers eager to have a glimpse of both the stars attending and the splendor of the building. Many of the fittings were imported from China and Chinese artisans were brought in to create works of sculpture which were originally located in
648-453: The coronavirus pandemic, festivals had to become either partially online, e.g. SXSW and Tribeca , or fully online, e.g. CPH:DOX , Visions du Reel . Director Alex Winter even went so far as to pull his documentary Zappa out of both SXSW and CPH:DOX rather than let the film premiere there, saying "Our main concern was sales. Being online with these festivals would be the equivalent of a streaming distribution deal." On 29 May 2020, upon
684-457: The film." Fionnuala Halligan of Screen Daily questioned the legitimacy of the festivals without physically screened premiers, saying "Is premiere status demanded by A-list festivals still valid, and if not world, then national or international, or online – how much do they matter in the time of Covid?" On the complications of incorporating online premiers during the new online reformatting of festivals, Halligan said that another burning question
720-501: The first time I would show an audience my film, so I was upset that it (would have to) be online." but said she relented as "I was observing (the Doha Film Institute's Qumra event ) online, and it was a good experience. I spoke to many programmers and professionals, and little by little, I understood we are all in the same situation and times are so uncertain that if I decided to say 'no,' I wouldn't know what would happen next with
756-557: The hospital to sleep. Grauman received an honorary Academy Award in 1949 for raising the standard for film exhibition. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6379 Hollywood Blvd. He was one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ). Grauman died of a coronary occlusion at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 5, 1950, twelve days shy of his 71st birthday. He
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#1732851155205792-482: The international premiere status. Premiering at a film festival has been used to gain publicity for a film, even without a distributor already in place, and can even allow last minuting editing. Director Alex Winter said, of film festival premiers, "It helps me get a sense of what my work is or isn't communicating. We've often made little tweaks and changes after we've premiered it at a few film festivals." Concerns existed about online premieres, when in 2020, during
828-510: The investment. Grauman was well-known to Hollywood's leading stars and was considered to be a close friend to many, including Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle . It was in Grauman's office at the Million Dollar Theatre that Arbuckle called the San Francisco police to turn himself in. Arbuckle began working for Grauman as a singer at his San Francisco Unique Theater as R. C. Arbuckle. The San Francisco theater connections of father and son meant
864-638: The late 1920s the red carpet had become synonymous with film premieres. There are a number of different types: A single work will often have many premieres. For example, in film, the 2019 United States movie Aladdin held its world premiere at the Grand Rex in Paris , France, on 8 May 2019, its first regional premiere in Jordan on 13 May 2019, and its United States premiere on 24 May 2019. Likewise, in music, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 received its world premiere in
900-478: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opening_Night&oldid=1218392544 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages opening night A premiere , also spelled première , (from French : première, 1 , transl. first, 1st )
936-525: The most important people in roller skating's history. Grauman's non-entertainment ventures turned out as badly as his father's. He formed the Black Hills Exploration Corporation in a gold mining effort near Deadwood , South Dakota. Grauman had convinced others such as entertainer Al Jolson and many movie company executives to join him in investing in the company. The company was not successful, and Grauman advised everyone to get out of
972-520: The other credits Norma Talmadge with the misstep. Grauman decided it was a wonderful way to have a permanent record of the stars, and began inviting selected film personalities to put their hand and footprints in concrete. Grauman himself made the choices; the tradition continued after his death using a secret system for choosing celebrities. Grauman was not the sole owner of the Chinese Theatre, even though it bears his name. His business partners in
1008-405: The theater's forecourt and are now housed inside the theater. The forecourt still contains the celebrity hand and footprints in cement. The tradition began by accident, while the finishing touches were being put on the Chinese Theatre. Two versions of the story have been published; one has Mary Pickford as the actress who stepped in the wet cement on her way to see Sid Grauman's new building, and
1044-409: The theaters in which he and his father were interested. David Grauman suffered enough financial loss to have the need to take a business partner in his Lyceum Theater, and to accept an offer from the partner to buy him out in 1905. He later arranged to take over the lease of the Lyceum, which would then evict his former partner from the theater in 1907. By early 1906, the Graumans had lost their lease of
1080-516: The venture were Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Howard Schenck. Two years after its opening, he sold his share of the theater to Fox West Coast Theatres, but remained its Managing Director for the rest of his life. Over four million people visit the Chinese Theatre yearly. In addition to his theater, and Hollywood energies, Sid Grauman built the Hollywood Roller Bowl which led to the 'discovery' of Gloria Nord , who would become one of
1116-681: Was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle . The 1906 earthquake demolished the Unique Theatre, and Grauman moved on to Los Angeles, founding the Princess Theatre and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. By 1918, the first of three Grauman movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles was open for business: the Million Dollar Theatre . The others, Grauman’s Rialto and Grauman's Metropolitan Theater , opened in 1919 and 1923, respectively. In 1921 in Los Angeles, David Grauman died suddenly, never able to see
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1152-447: Was "Would a geo-locked online premiere at a smaller festival jeopardise a filmmaker's chances for showing their "international premiere" at another, perhaps larger, more covetable event (for which the selection hasn't yet been announced)?" Sid Grauman Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 – March 5, 1950) was an American entrepreneur and showman who established two of Hollywood 's most recognizable and visited landmarks,
1188-620: Was also in the Yukon that Grauman saw his first motion picture. A failed prospector in the Klondike gold rush , David Grauman initially took his young son to the Klondike with the idea of building a theater there. Though they did not strike gold, both of the Graumans gained considerable wealth by their Klondike entertainment activities. When his father's sister became ill and he left the territory to care for her, young Grauman remained in Dawson City for
1224-640: Was also its world premiere) in 1952, and subsequently its English-language premiere in Britain in 1956. The type of premiers that a work receives will impact on how the work is treated by festivals, including the categorization of the work in screening sessions, e.g. Fantastic Fest , and even as the basis of its submission requirements, e.g. Sundance Film Festival eligibility rules require that United States feature films, both narrative and documentary, have retained their world premier status, whilst international feature films, both narrative and documentary, have retained
1260-681: Was interred in the Sanctuary of Benediction alcove in the Memorial Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale , California. After Grauman's death, a woman named Carrie Adair came forward with claims of being his common-law wife and the mother of his child. Adair produced a copy of a will and a letter naming her as Grauman's childhood sweetheart. Adair's sister, Agnes Gerlich, gave testimony that her sister
1296-492: Was very closely connected with the motion picture industry and appeared in several cameo appearances that nodded to his fame in Hollywood and further afield in the Gold Rush. Living for 35 years at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel , Grauman spent the last six months of his life at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center , but not because of illness. Grauman liked being at Cedars and would leave to eat at various premier restaurants and return to
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