100 YEARS
It’s wonderful celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Sheridan Opera
House, although it didn’t start out that way. Originally the Segerberg Theatre
when it opened as a “picture show theatre,” according to the Telluride Daily Journal of July 2, 1913,
the name was later changed from a theatre venue for silent films to an “opera
house” and a mainstay on the state’s vaudeville circuit. There were several earlier
opera houses in Telluride, both long gone. Opera houses not only hosted
performances and lectures, but they served as community centers for dances and
fancy dinner parties … The surviving Segerberg/Sheridan has become the town’s
cinematic landmark, thanks to the annual Telluride Film Festival and its
international following. And blossomed as well into an intimate performance
showcase, “Telluride’s living room,” thanks to the Sheridan Arts Foundation.
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