Until 2006, the LaSalle Bank Theatre was known as The Shubert Theatre, which was opened on New Year's Day in 1906, then known as the Majestic Theatre. The Majestic Building, the tallest building in Chicago when it was first built, became a Chicago landmark, and the theatre instantly became a popular destination with 12 - 15 vaudeville acts running continuously from 1:30pm to 10:30 pm, six days a week. The Majestic closed during the Great Depression, but about 15 years later was reopened as the Sam Shubert Theatre.
The Shubert stage became home to an astounding array of classic plays and musicals, with earlier classics such as "Annie Get Your Gun," "Carousel," "Kiss Me Kate," "South Pacific," and "Guys and Dolls" and more recent favorites such as "Rent," "Chicago-The Musical," "Cabaret" and the pre-Broadway engagements of "The Goodbye Girl" and "Victor/Victoria."
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