Showcase Cinemas Orange
100 Marsh Hill Road,
Orange,
CT
06477
100 Marsh Hill Road,
Orange,
CT
06477
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According to the Milford/Orange City Directory, the Orange 1-2-3 opened under General Cinema in 1966, then became 1-2-3-4-5 in 1975 and became Showcase, then 6 screens in 1980 and 7 in 1983.
And General Cinema only had 4 theaters in the entire state of Connecticut ???
There was a Showcase Cinemas in Derby?!?!?
There is a nice artist rendering of the original triplex at www.fromscripttodvd.com Then click on the list of NY theaters with 70mm. That site also claims this was the most expensive theater ever built in Connecticut back then.
The Cinema 1,2, 3 letters look identical to those used by General Cinema back then.
Appears to have been a superior quality triplex in it’s day…
The theatre moved across the street or I-95 because Bayer wanted to move there in it’s place.
The theatre moved across the street or I-95 because Bayer wanted to move there in it’s place.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE NEW COMPLEX AT 100 MARSH HILL ROAD OPENED?
when did this Triplex close?
Remember this theater from the early 70’s. It was like movie heaven. Each of the three had a thousand seats. Opened in 1969. Bill was 1) Krakatoa east of java, 2) Lion in Winter 3) Funny Girl. At the time, Orange was not built up with stores or malls, so you had this big theatre complex in the middle of nowhere, but it was quite modern and beautiful â€" think movie heaven. It was one of the first of it’s kind, and showed first rate, first run entertainment like all the road show movies, even though they were of a dying breed.
I remember that during the summer of 1969 they showed, at the same time: Patton, Airport, and Mash. Separately of course. At the time they were big money makers.
In 1973/1974, one of the three was gutted into two, so it became showcase 4. In the summer of 1974, they utilized some of the oversized lobby space and made a fifth theatre, but it was too damn small, almost the size of a giant screen television or one of the mini Criterion theaters in Manhattan.
Around Christmas of 1974, they had all the big disaster films at this theatre before they hit second run houses. The gutted first theater showed Earthquake in one and Airport 75 in the other, the next big theatre showed Godfather Part II, the next big theater showed Towering Inferno, and the small mini showed The Man With The Golden Gun.
Yes, it’s a totally different building. The triplex was on the other side of I-95, and was demolished. The property is now part of the Bayer plant.
So this is not thew original triplex building added onto and carved up? It’s a totally different building?
This building replaced a triplex that was located on the opposite side of I-95.