Saenger Theater

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

1111 Canal Street: From the New Orleans Jazz History Canal Street Walking Tour brochure: “The Saenger was designed as an ÒatmosphericÓ theater (with stars and clouds) by architect Emile Weil and opened in 1927. It still has its Robert-Morton organ and a rising orchestra pit for fifty musicians. Included in its various musical groups were trumpeters Johnny Dedroit, Mike Caplan and Louis Prima, banjoist, Steve Loyacano and clarinetist, Tony Parenti. Castro Carazo, who led the orchestra, later collaborated with Governor Huey P. Long on several compositions.”