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Ideal Theater
49 South State Street
Clearfield, Utah
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Surprise Theatre
Bountiful, Utah
Lamoni Call opened the Surprise Theatre on 12 May 1909. The theater did so well that a company organized a year later to buy and enlarge the theater to 500 seats. A stage was to be added, "sufficiently large to accommodate the best traveling troupes that visit small towns."
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Ideal Theater
(Admiral Theatre)
49 South State Street
Clearfield, Utah
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Status: |
Demolished |
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Seats:
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250 |
Open: |
1964
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Closed: |
1998
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Demolished: |
Before June 2000
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The Ideal Theater opened as a movie theater in 1964.1
In
1991, the first several rows of seats were removed so that a stage
could be built in front of the movie screen. On 17 October 1991,
Wasatch Playhouse presented the first live theater in Davis County,
"Reserve Two for Murder." The theater company hoped to present six
plays a year.1
The Ideal Theater closed about 1998 because of a lack of profitability.2 In
November 1998 Clearfield city condemned seven businesses, including the
Ideal Theater, to make way for the city's new $9 million,
70,000-square-foot city hall and justice center.3 The theaer was demolished before 15 June 2000.2
1. "The Ideal Brings Live Theater to N. Davis At Last", Deseret News, 8 October 1991, Page B6
2. "Downtown S.L., Clearfield lose movie houses", Deseret News, 15 June 2000, page D7
3. "New city building to displace 7 businesses in Clearfield", Deseret News, 16 November 1998, Page B3
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