It's always 1968 somewhere. The Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard, directly across the street from the Hollywood Palladium, opened on December 26, 1938 – a glamorous supper club designed by Gordon B. Kauffman for Earl Carroll, the New York theater producer and director – and then it became other things. In 1968 it became the Aquarius Theater, the home of the long-running Los Angeles production of the Broadway musical Hair – and used for rock concerts on Mondays, when...
more »It's always 1968 somewhere. The Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard, directly across the street from the Hollywood Palladium, opened on December 26, 1938 – a glamorous supper club designed by Gordon B. Kauffman for Earl Carroll, the New York theater producer and director – and then it became other things. In 1968 it became the Aquarius Theater, the home of the long-running Los Angeles production of the Broadway musical Hair – and used for rock concerts on Mondays, when the theater company had its day off. And then those days were over too, but in 2016 the building won landmark status as a Historic-Cultural Monument and will be protected from demolition and restored under an agreement among owner Essex Property Trust, Hollywood Heritage and the Los Angeles Conservancy – and they've decided to make it 1968 again. The Earl Carroll Theater is the Aquarius Theater once again. It's 1968 again – and of course Jimi Hendrix is just down the street too. ~ Thursday, October 18, 2018
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