Adios Alhambra!, Cape Town - FINAL PERFORMANCE - 1972

FINAL PERFORMANCE SOUVENIR PROGRAMME, Adios Alhambra! ,Cape Town,Saturday, 22nd January, 1972, illustrated, period advertisement, 12 pages, 22.6 cms x 28.5 cms, condition: very good.

"On a Saturday afternoon;  you are a 6 year old girl.  In front of you a most exciting movie and above, stars shine a above you. And.....I think there were beautiful theater boxes along the sides of the magical interior of The Alhambra.  And then it was gone..this magnificent place."

The Alhambra was built in 1928 for Harry Stodel's African Consolidated Theatres. It was called South Africa's best "atmospheric theatre." It had a Wurlitzer theatre organ that could produce many sound effects. It opened in 1929. Plays and musicals were also presented for four decades in the theatre. Among the entertainers to perform here were Marlene Dietrich, Nellie du Toit, Angelo Gobbato, and Phyllis Spira.The only Afrikaans language theater company to perform here, according to André Huguenet, was his company with its production of Is Jy n Bokryer? in the 1940s. It was also sometimes used by KRUIK (the Cape Performing Arts Council)..The building closed in January 1972 and was sold in 1974 and demolished the same year.