Riviera Theatre

Dingy and loud.  Perfect.  CRAPPY parking around there.

It's sad but true: this is one of the oddest layouts I've ever seen at a venue. It has a series of blocked off seating areas and tiers with guard rails that make seeing the stage quite a challenge if you're not a particularly timely person like myself. The bathrooms are pretty foul and lines pretty long, for them and for the coat check. The sound wasn't horrible, nor wonderful. And it can get warm for such a big place.

Still, I love the vintage marquee.

Great balcony seating, decent acoustics, and all the charm of such a classic venue but certainly not as well maintained as other similar spaces such as The State Theater in Detroit or The Paramount in Seattle.  Saw Frightened Rabbit here on 3/23/13 and with a jammed packed house the sound was good, but not great while the crowd was largely drunk, but not totally obnoxious.  Judging from the echo I can only imagine that sound on the floor, or for a much louder band would suffer.