[1] The theatre was modeled after the identical Melody Top in Chicago.
The theatre was originally built in the form of a giant, circus-style tent.
It was located on W Good Hope Road, just east of N 76th St in Milwaukee.
[4] The Melody Top hosted "...Broadway quality presentations of big scale musical hits..."[5] The theatre hosted celebrities such as Leonard Nimoy in Oliver!
; Betty White in My Fair Lady; and Christopher Walken in West Side Story.