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Mai Kai Theater
2001 Photo from the Adam Martin collection.
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33330 Plymouth Rd
Livonia MI
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| Record #13055 |
Opened: 1963
Closed: 1993
Demolished: 2003
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Capacity: 1400 seats
Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s): Polynesian
National Register:
Current Organ: none |
| Also Known As: Omni Star, George Burns |
The Mai Kai opened on April 10, 1963, with the Disney film Son of Flubber. Stars Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk attended the opening of the $1.5 million Polynesian-style theater built by Nicholas George. When it closed in 1987, the Mai Kai was one of the last large single-screen neighborhood theaters in the area.
The theater reopened in 1988 as a live event theater and was renamed the Omni Star. The theater closed just two months later, and in 1990, the manager plead guilty to selling $70,000 worth of tickets to a concert that never took place.
The theater was sold to Stuart Gorelick, who remodeled it at a cost of $1 million and renamed it the George Burns Theatre. The theater reopened in 1992, with Burns himself in attendance, but closed again the next year. Photos
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June 2001 photos from the Adam Martin collection.
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Last featured 3/9/2005. Last edited 3/9/2005.
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