The Elitch Garden Theatre Company became its own incorporated business, separate from the Elitch Gardens Park, renting the theatre in 1963. In 1953, the Elitch Theatre was used to film scenes for The Glenn Miller Story. Mulvihill oversaw the theatre until his death in 1930 and was succeeded by his son-in-law Arnold Gurtler. (Two theatre boxes were always reserved for her and her friends). With the purchase of Elitch Gardens by John Mulvihill in 1916, she relinquished control of the Gardens and theatre. Operating the park became too costly for Mary Elitch. Prior in 1905, he was hired to sweep the stage for theatre tickets. Douglas Fairbanks was hired into the same company. At Elitch's she played Camille at the matinée and LaSorcier at night. Sarah Bernhardt came to Denver in 1906 after the San Francisco earthquake destroyed the California Theatre where she was scheduled to perform. The company became known for putting on ten plays in a ten-week summer season and attracting internationally known stars of the theatre and screen. The first show performed there was Helene. Its first season in 1897 opened with leading man James O'Neill, who had promised John that he would act in the new theatre when it was ready. The Elitch Gardens Stock Theatre Company began performing in 1897 under the management of Mary Elitch Long. In 1896, Edison's Vitascope was exhibited at the theatre showing the first films in Colorado. In 1893 the first summer stock theatre company, the Norcross Company, was organized in the East and brought to the gardens. The Boston Opera Company performed musicals, and light opera starting with The Pirates of Penzance. In 1891 the theatre was enclosed and rebuilt for $100,000. Inspired by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the first shows were vaudeville acts by accomplished local and national performers. John Elitch and Mary Elitch Long first opened Elitch Gardens on May 1, 1890, with animals, bands, flowers and an open-air theatre where Mayor Londoner of Denver spoke. DeMille sent yearly telegrams wishing the theatre another successful season, calling it "one of the cradles of American drama." The first films in the western US were shown there in 1896.
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The theatre was Denver's first professional theatre, serving as home to America's first and oldest summer-stock theatre company from 1893 until the 1960s. Opened in 1890, it was centerpiece of the park that was the first zoo west of Chicago. The Historic Elitch Theatre is located at the original Elitch Gardens site in northwest Denver, Colorado.
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