[9] She returned the theater in 1918 with the Chicago Grand Opera Company (CGOC) to perform the title heroine in Jules Massenet's Thaïs.

Other opera highlights at the theater included Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly starring Tamaki Miura in 1923; Feodor Chaliapin as Boito's Mefistofele in 1924, and Rosa Raisa as Verdi's Aida in 1927.

[9] According to a local legend, the building is haunted by the ghost of Enrico Caruso, who performed there in 1920 and reportedly caught the cold that led to his death of pleurisy in 1921.

Owner Peter Mayo plans to reuse a stainless-steel sign that spells out the word 'Tulsa' in stylish script, fitted with LED lighting.

The building was supplanted in 1977 as the city's municipal auditorium by construction of the more modern Tulsa Performing Arts Center a few blocks southeast of the Brady's location.

Renamed simply The Tulsa Theater, and affectionately known as "The Old Lady on Brady," it continues to operate as a venue for a wide variety of concerts and theatrical productions.

He was given thirty days to plan the transformation of the barn-like space into an elegant showplace suitable for a city that was becoming known as "The Oil Capital of the World."