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Egyptian: recent auditorium views

 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 | map |

The Egyptian Theatre pages: an overview | Hollywood Blvd. views 1922-1954 | Hollywood Blvd. views 1955-present | forecourt | lobby views 1922-2020 | recent lobby views | auditorium views 1922-2020 | recent auditorium views | booth | backstage | Egyptian 2 & 3 | along Las Palmas Ave. | along McCadden Place2021 Netflix renderings |

During the Netflix renovations: 
 

November 2021 - A peek in from an opening in the stagehouse wall. The temporary bracing is supporting the proscenium wall and the organ chamber. The structure around the original proscenium was removed during the 1968 D-150 renovations. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

November 2021 - At the upper left it's the bottom of the organ chamber, located downstage of the proscenium wall. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

November 2021 - A wider view of the ceiling. The narrow zig-zag strip around the edge of the blue ceiling was originally the exhaust ducting. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

November 2021 - A view toward the booth. The columns are the remnants of the balcony that had been installed during the American Cinematheque's 1997-1998 renovations. Photo: Bill Counter 
  
 

November 2021 - Another view to the rear. That area under the booth was originally seating. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

November 2021 - Back under the front of the booth. The stairs and the columns beyond are items from the 1997-1998 project that will be removed. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

November 2021 - A view to the stage. On the far left it's the singer's box. The stubby column in the foreground was part of the structure that supported the sliding acoustical panels installed in 1997-1998. The new seating layout will extend out farther toward the side walls. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

December 2021 - A look toward the stage as the demolition phase continued. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

December 2021 - The ceiling sunburst. Note the nicely backlit return air grille where the ceiling meets the side wall. The light is coming through the building's partially demolished side wall. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

December 2021 - A return air grille detail. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

December 2021 - A look to the rear. That concrete structure that's been unearthed on the left was once a tunnel leading from the fan room beyond that connected to a network of supply air tunnels under the seats. Several of the plenum tunnels can also be seen on the right. They continued back to the lobby to heat that space as well. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

December 2021 - A view back to the lobby. The partially demolished concrete block wall is part of what was the Spielberg Theatre. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

January 2022 - The booth area after more demolition. The upper ports were for the booth installed during the Cinematheque renovations of 1997-1998. That lower level, opened up once again, was the booth location from 1922 to until 1968. Note a bit of decorative painting remaining on the left wall of the booth. Grauman thought even the booth should carry out the decoratice scheme of the rest of the theatre. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 
 
January 2022 - A peek into one of the private boxes after the duct work installed for the Cinematheque renovation had been removed. Some of the 1922 decorative painting survives. It's a shallow box. That open door beyond leads onto the roof. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

January 2022 - A closer look into the house right box. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

February 2022 - A see-through view with the wall behind the boxes removed and the upper level of the booth gone. Those stairs up seen in the lower left were an exit from the Spielberg Theatre, at this point totally gone.  Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

May 2022 - A look across from a side exit. On the right note the new sections of shear wall at the back of what will be the seating area. The daylight seen in the upper right is the booth area, at this point without a floor. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

July 2022 - The big dig in the seating area has been filled in and concrete has been poured for part of the wall and control booth area at what will become the back of the auditorium. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

August 2022 - The rear of the house after more demolition in the original booth area. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

August 2022 - A view to the house right singer's box. Photo: Bill Counter
 

 
August 2022 - Substantially more support installed for the proscenium wall and organ chambers this side of it. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

August 2022 - The ceiling with a few test areas done to evaluate cleaning techniques. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

October 2022 - The temporary support under the proscenium was removed. Note new concrete in place at floor level across the stage area. Photo: Bill Counter 


 
October 2022 - A look across the front of the auditorium with a big dig up the centerline. Offstage left we're looking out the loading door. In the upper center it's the stairs for what had been the dressing room area. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 
 
October 2022 - The view toward the well-ventilated back of the house. Below the booth area we're looking through the lobby and restrooms and out the deconstructed north wall of the building. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

October 2022 - Across the back of the house with new steel going in at the control booth area, situated on the centerline below the projection booth. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

November 2022 - A look across with more steel in place. Photo: Bill Counter  
 
 


November 2022 - The back corner house left. Photo: Bill Counter  
 
 
 
November 2022 - The view across the auditorium with electrical roughed in and more dirt back in place. Note the two workers over in the house right singer's box. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

November 2022 - Across the front with some very curious ductwork in the foreground. On the left note the augmented column at the proscenium to support the proscenium wall and the organ chamber. There's a new concrete beam on the stage side of the proscenium wall just below the grid. Photo: Bill Counter  
 
 

December 2022 - Looking toward the stage with scaffolding up for ceiling and side wall restoration. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

December 2022 - A walk down the newly poured concrete for the house left aisle. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

December 2022 - More steel in place at the front of the control room. Photo: Bill Counter  
 
 

December 2022 - The view in from the stage door. In the upper right it's brackets being welded to the beams going from the bottom of the organ chamber to the back wall of the stage. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

March 2023 - A look to the rear of the house with scaffolding down other than at the proscenium and back in the lobby. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

March 2023 - Across the rear of the auditorium from house left. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

March 2023 - Framing going in for the new proscenium. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

March 2023 - The restored ceiling -- and some new cove lighting. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

March 2023 - A closer look at the sunburst. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

April 2023 - Down the house right aisle. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

April 2023 - A look across at framing for part of the new proscenium. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

April 2023 - The decking system for seating risers. In the upper left note the floating black rectangle -- evidently a test for their cable support system for surround speakers. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

April 2023 - A peek underneath some of the deck. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

April 2023 - A view toward the back wall and control booth area. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

April 2023 - Progress in the booth. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

April 2023 - Looking in from house left. Drywall is mostly up on the screen wall with holes for speakers visible through the forest of scaffolding. Photo: Bill Counter 
 
 

May 2023 - Another look toward the screen after more proscenium work. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

May 2023 - House left as seen from the middle of the auditorium. Photo: Bill Counter
 
 

May 2023 - The back wall scaffolded again to work on the front of the booth and other areas. Photo: Bill Counter  
 
The Netflix project architect is Ross Brennan of Studio 440 Architecture & Acoustics. Peyton Hall of Historic Resources Group is the project's historic consultant. Renderings of the exterior, lobby and auditorium areas from the presentations Netflix made to the city's Cultural Heritage Commission in January and April 2021 can be seen on our Netflix renderings page.
 
 

A floorplan from Studio 440. The revamped seating area uses about half of the auditorium's original depth. With this design they're looking at a capacity of 540. The curved row of columns in the middle of the beige lobby area is where the seating ended in 1922.

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