The musical benefits to support the people in Los Angeles who were affected by the devastating fires earlier this year in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, keep coming.
Last week (3/16) at the historic United Theater on Broadway, Peter Asher, Maria Bamford, Margaret Cho, Al Jardine, Neil Hamburger, Eric Idle, Paul Shaffer, Nancy Sinatra, Reggie Watts, Rufus Wainwright, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and others gathered for the comically-named Let’s Get L.Aid wildfire benefit.
100% of the net proceeds went to support local organizations including Altadena Girls, Friends in Deed, One Voice, and the Pasadena Humane Society. Both the venue fees and the ticketing fees were waived.
For the last decade, the venue was called The Theatre at Ace Hotel, but when the hotel went bankrupt, it moved out leaving behind a 100-year-old somewhat-recently renovated jewel. Last year it reopened under the new, generic, name. Groups like The Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, and Morrissey have performed there since the refresh.
Built in 1927 at the behest of the founders of United Artists (Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffiths, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks), the theater is a masterful example of Spanish Colonial Revival style whose ornate exterior features boast towers, decorative showy arches, and intricate carvings whose faces see all, so watch it mister.
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