William Fox, founder of the Fox movie productions studio that bears his name, began construction of the Fox Theatre in St. Louis in 1927. He hired Howard Crane, a noted theatre architect, to design the building in a "Siamese Byzantine" style. Ground breaking to opening night took just a year and a half and the city was treated to an opulent theater palace.The popularity of the theater and movies proved to be a successful venture through the mid-1950s. Facing competition from the nearby St. Louis and Grand movie theaters and the growing popularity of television sets, the Fox began to decline through the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, the building closed. Leon Strauss and Fox Associates purchased the building in 1981 and, under the watchful eye of Mary Strauss, the Fox Theatre was restored to its original beauty and grandeur. In 1982 the Fox reopened and in 1983 Lifestyle Tours took our first group there to see Lauren Bacall in "Woman of the Year". For over thirty five years our groups still travel to the Fox to see Broadway shows and big-name entertainers take the stage in this beautiful movie palace.


In the 2017-18 Broadway Series season, Lifestyle Tours will have seen several shows including two remaining blockbusters:

"The Color Purple" on Saturday, March 24

"The Phantom of the Opera" on Thursday, May 10 in cooperation with First Bank. The group will begin in Evansville and stop at Grayville, IL to meet the bank's Illinois clients.

"The Phantom of the Opera" on Saturday, May 19

There is no better venue for "Phantom" than the magnificent space at the Fox Theatre!