"Do you buy all these books retail or do you send away for, like, a shrink kit that comes with all these volumes included? " - Will, Good Will Hunting.
How long has it been since I was in the Orpheum, well I was watching Good Will Hunting, so awhile. This is less a review and more a memory of the greatness the Orpheum possesses for me.
Back when the Orpheum was nothing but a movie theater you could not watch films from the balcony, sure the ushers went up there but regular ticket paying folk were not permitted. While I never got an official answer the generally gossiped conclusion was that if it was regularly filled with people the old structure would collapse and most likely kill the unsuspecting audience below... lesson 1 in the Orpheum I never intended to sit under or too close to the balcony.
This lack of permission did not, however, stop my then bf from insisting that we hop the velvet rope and sit in the balcony. Making the big desicion to break social norms by crossing that rope is one of my first memories of dong something I was afraid of because I was trying to be a cool teenager. As a result Good Will Hunting, balcony movies, and the Orpheum remain key developmental memories.