Savoy Theater, Performance venue in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Savoy Theater is a venue in the Haus der Handelskammer at Graf-Adolf-Straße 47 in Düsseldorf, built to plans by architect Hans Nehaus and opened on 18 April 1958. Its main hall held a 165 m² widescreen and a Philips DP70 70 mm projector for Todd-AO and CinemaScope; a smaller Atelier in the basement followed on 6 May 1958. Later halls Apollo 69, Die Lupe and Linse 1 and 2 were added.
The hall, designed by Düsseldorf architect Hans Nehaus, opened on 18 April 1958 as the Savoy cinema, run by Willi Goldermann's film theatre company, with the film The Ten Commandments. On 6 May 1958 the smaller Atelier in the basement followed with a Bolshoi Ballet premiere. The double cinema was a step towards the multiplexes of the 1980s. After the UFA group took over in 1989/90, the Savoy closed on 26 April 2000; Stefan Jürging reopened it as a small-stage venue on 27 September 2000.
The Savoy opened in 1958 as a cinema with two halls: the main Savoy for mainstream films and the basement Atelier as an art-house cinema. Since 27 September 2000 it has run as a small-stage venue (Kleinkunstbühne) under Stefan Jürging, while the Atelier has been used again as an art-house cinema since 13 September 2006.
The venue sits at Graf-Adolf-Straße 47, inside the Haus der Handelskammer, a short walk from Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and reachable by tram along Graf-Adolf-Straße. The hall is on an upper floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, so look for the entrance of the house rather than a separate theatre façade.
The 165 m² widescreen and the Philips DP70 70 mm projector made the Savoy a first-run house for Todd-AO and CinemaScope films, while the basement atelier showed art-house cinema. From 1972 the 50-seat Die Lupe used a rear-projection matte screen, allowed smoking and served drinks.
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