Broadway Theatre (Toronto)

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The Broadway Theatre, on Queen, the vacant lot across Queen would become Nathan Phillips Square.

The Broadway Theatre was a a theatre located on the southwest corner of Bay and Queen streets, in Toronto, Ontario.^[1] The theatre was opened under the name of Globe Theatre, in 1918. It was renamed the Roxy Theatre in the early 1930s, and assumed its final name, the Broadway Theatre, in 1937.

The Broadway was initially a traditional Burlesque theatre.^[1]

In 1935 the theatre's manager was murdered, in his office.^[1][2][3] $378 appeared to have been stolen, but, according to author and cinema historian Doug Taylor, Toronto Police did not believe robbery was the motive. The shooter was never identified.

Taylor wrote that when New City Hall was to be built on the north side of the street politicians felt that the Broadway, and the Casino Theatre, another Burlesque theatre, just five doors west, and pawn shops and the block's other businesses were inconsistent with civic dignity, and the whole block was expropriated and demolished, in 1965.^[1] The block is now the site of the large Sheraton Hotel.

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