Uptown Theatre (Toronto)

[1] It was at the Uptown that Leonidoff developed the style that he would later give Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes.

The theatre was quickly restored, but all the original ornate plasterwork in the dome, proscenium arch, boxes, and organ grilles was lost, being replaced by only smooth plaster and drapery.

Uptown Backstage 1 and 2 were built in the original stage house and could only be accessed through a separate entrance and box office on Balmuto Street.

Mr. Taylor would later found a new chain of multiplex cinemas in 1979 with Garth Drabinsky, called Cineplex Entertainment.

It was the last remaining large-audience big-screen, old-style movie theatre still operating in downtown Toronto for Famous Players.

Following the loss of the Imperial in 1986, the Uptown became the theatre of choice for many movie goers in downtown Toronto and regularly played midnight shows on the weekend.

The five screen cinema made little financial sense in the era of megaplexes, especially when the land it was on was worth millions of dollars.

[5] No workers were hurt, but parts of the brick walls fell on the neighbouring Yorkville English Academy.

[6] Fourteen people in the school were injured and one, Augusto Mejia Solis, a 27-year-old Costa Rican, was killed.