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The Fox Theatre is an ornate performing arts center in the United States, located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it is noted as the first theater designed and built to include a speaker system for sound films. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989. The area surrounding the Fox is nicknamedFoxtown. The city's majorperformance centers and theatre semanate from the Fox Theatre and Grand Circus Park Historic District and continue alongWoodward Avenuetoward the Fisher Theatre in the city's New Center. The Fox has 5,048 seats (5,174 seats if removable seats placed in the raised orchestra pit are included). It is the largest surviving movie palace of the 1920s and the largest of the original Fox Theatres. The Fox was fully restored in 1988.The adjacent office building houses the headquarters of Olympia Entertainment and Little Caesars.

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