Playhouse Square: "The Show That Saved the Theaters"
Channel: CSU Digital Humanities
Date: 2011-02-24

Thomas Rathburn, a volunteer tour guide at Playhouse Square, describes how the show "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" became the show that "saved" Playhouse Square in 1973.

This video was created in the Summer of 2008 for use in the kiosk component of the Euclid Corridor History Project. Research was conducted by students in the Cleveland State University Department of History, with film production by Authentic Films Company.

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