CIBC Theatre is a performing arts theater located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago.
By the 1920s the theater had become part of the Orpheum Circuit and presented many famous vaudeville headliners including Al Jolson, Eddie Foy, Jack Benny, W.C. Fields, Harry Houdini, The Marx Brothers, Bert Williams, Lily Langtry, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice.
[5][6] From January 2005 to May 2006, the theater underwent restoration and a name change to the LaSalle Bank Theatre and floors 4-21 of the adjoining office building were converted to the Hampton Inn Majestic Hotel.
The architects, Edmund R. Krause and the Rapp Brothers (George and Cornelius), thought that by using decadent colors and textures they could attract a more upper-class crowd than traditionally attended vaudeville.
Michael Crawford played a one-night benefit concert for the newly restored theater's opening night May 24, 2006.
The theater hosted a sit-down production of The Book of Mormon which officially opened on December 19, 2012, and played through October 6, 2013.
In December 2015, it began the premiere engagement of a new musical Gotta Dance directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell and starring Georgia Engel, Stefanie Powers, Lillias White and Andre DeShields.
[14] As the Shubert Theater, the venue hosted the six-week Chicago run of Sherlock Holmes, featuring Leonard Nimoy in the title role and Alan Sues as Moriarty.
The show was an adaption by Neil Simon of his screenplay of the same name with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by David Zippel and starred Bernadette Peters and Martin Short.
[17] Movin' Out, based on the songs of Billy Joel and conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, premiered in June 2002.
The production was directed by Tony and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols and starred David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria.
Directed by Jerry Mitchell, the show featured music by David Foster, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and a book by Bob Martin.