page_title: Broadway Theatre (Toronto)
hierarchical_section_title: Broadway Theatre (Toronto)
caption_attribution_description: English: The south side of Queen Street West, between Bay Street and University Avenue, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nathan Phillips Square is under construction on the north side of the street.
context_page_description: The Broadway Theatre was a burlesque live theatre and cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 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. It was located on the southwest corner of Bay and Queen streets at 75 Queen Street West.
  The Broadway was initially a traditional Burlesque theatre. In 1933, it was renamed the Roxy and offered girlie shows. In 1935, the theatre's manager was murdered in his office. $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. The block is now the site of the large Sheraton Hotel.
context_section_description: The Broadway Theatre was a burlesque live theatre and cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  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. It was located on the southwest corner of Bay and Queen streets at 75 Queen Street West.
  The Broadway was initially a traditional Burlesque theatre. In 1933, it was renamed the Roxy and offered girlie shows. In 1935, the theatre's manager was murdered in his office.  $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.  The block is now the site of the large Sheraton Hotel.
caption: The Broadway Theatre, on Queen, the vacant lot across Queen would become Nathan Phillips Square.
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