Million Dollar Theater reopens
February 29, 2008 | 9:47
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It cost Sid Grauman more than a million dollars to build in 1918 and took another million to refurbish. Now fans -- like Marco Lopez, above -- and preservationists think the Million Dollar Theater looks like a million bucks.
The single-screen movie palace, built in the Spanish Baroque style, seats more than 2,000. It became a Spanish-language playhouse and then a church before shutting its doors.
The re-do is part of the city's $36.5 million "Bringing Back Broadway" plan to revitalize the theater district.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
