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| Location | 334 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°38′57″N 79°23′42″W / 43.649276°N 79.394914°W |
| Owner | John Christensen |
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| Genre(s) | Alternative, Indie |
| Capacity | 70 (dining room), 200 (back room), 200 (upstairs pool hall) |
| Opened | 1982 |
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| Rivoli Toronto [1] | |
The Rivoli is a bar, restaurant and performance space, established in 1982, on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The club originally earned a reputation as one of Canada's hippest music clubs,[1] and many major Canadian comedy and musical performers have played on its stage, including The Kids in the Hall, Gordon Downie, The Frantics, Sean Cullen and the infamous Dark Shows. The Drowsy Chaperone premiered at the Rivoli and went on to subsequent productions and eventually a highly successful run on Broadway. The venue is also the subject of the comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show in which each episode Nirvanna The Band try to get a show at the club.
- ^ Griffin, John (May 2, 1985). "Hit album makes a believer of Gowan". The Montreal Gazette. Montreal. p. B4. "[...] Gowan, who, on the phone anyway, seems more the affable hockey-and-beer type than a denizen of such desperately hip clubs as Montreal's Beat and Toronto's Rivoli."