It was supposed to get Mame but a production of that size seems no longer a propect on Broadway. Something big is coming in in the fall.
While we’re at it I hate that they got rid of the great facade and put up a slick plastic looking front. I can’t believe people are paid a ton of money to come up with these horrible new designs. Contemporary architecture not global warming will be the end of the human race.
The Disneyfication was the worst thing to ever happen to midtown. If you actually think it was a good thing then may you live in a shopping mall for the rest of your life.
The first half of my list belongs to Koch and Giuliani.And I left out the Criterion and Bijou and the destruction of 42nd St as a neighborhood. Everything left after the slaughter of the 60’s. There was still a great theatrical neighborhood left. Now it is just a corporate cesspool. Sorry if this offends you. But if it does I am genuinely surprised.
Look at the constant political harrassment the Friends of the Loews is going through out in Jersey. There are many who would have said that building was in a ‘shambles and steep decline.'
Thank god for those volunteers out there showing what a great legacy was left to us and how much of it was destroyed.
If you want to refer to my anger at the destructions of our downtowns and the neglect of our national security a hissy fit so be it.
A great deal of architectural beauty has been destroyed out of sheer greed. And it doesn’t take a lefty to figure out that our national security was purposely ignored.
The Rivoli, Strand, Morosco Helen Hayes and Loew’s State, the old Met, the Capitol, the Paramount, Astor Hotel and Penn Station did not need to be torn down.
These were fully functional great NY buildings.
And I still stand by my statement on that loathsome triumvirate.
Koch and Giuliani destroyed mid town and had demolished all the remaining Times Square movie palaces. They are despicable in their stupidity and greed.
And as for leading the city after 9/11 what did Giuliani have to do? Everyone was stunned! For him and Bush it was nothing but a photo op testament to their incompetence and ingnorance of a terrorist threat. All three men may they rot.
Does anybody have a color photo of the Hawaii billboard? That was also pretty spectacular.
The Magnificent Men had moving parts.The planes looking as if they were bobbing in the air and legs spinning.
Thank you RobertR!
Just looking at the photo Warren posted in Feb of this year. Looks like the Brooklyn Paramount along with the Chi Paradise were the two most beautiful movie palaces ever built in the US. From the black and white photos I’ve seen of them to have actually been in them in their glory days almost seems like too much.
ErikH made me think of the time I was lost in my own thoughts walking up 5th Av when Rizzoli was still there when I suddenly look up in front of the store and right in front of me are DeNiro and Streep holding shopping bags of Christmas presents. This was nowhere near Christmas and if there is a movie out there with this scene of the two of them standing in front of Rizzoli’s I’m probably somehwere in the vicinity off camera.
I vaguely remember it but the truly great production of Porgy in the second half of the 20th Century was the Houston Grand Opera Company version which played at the Uris and then tranferred to the Mark Hellinger where I saw it with Clamma Dale and Donnie Ray Albert. One of the great musical performances of all time.
This is meant to be seen in a Broadway house. Not at the Music Hall and not at the Met.
Can anybody tell me who visited this theater during its roadshow 70mm heyday if there was a flat screen in the proscenium or if there was a curved screen in front of it.
Does anyone know how much of the original decor as pictured in Warren’s photos from January made it to the 50’s before the house was redesigned for Cinerama?
That automat had a very elegant facade which was covered over when they turned it into a Burger King. It is on the cover of a Carole King album and above the facade is a billboard for Sunflower which played at the Hall in the fall of ‘70 which was obviously when the album cover was designed.
Does anybody know the name of the King album?
You want me to get started Vito?
By the way Ed and klass discuss H and H but wasn’t there a Howard Johnson’s right by the Hall. Does anyone know where it was exactly?My mother took my sister and me there after my first visit to the Hall.
klass
Molly Brown was a summer movie. The Easter film was Henry Orient-another of those bizarre mid 60’s choices of what the Hall considered a holiday film for the entire family. The Christmas film that year was Father Goose and I know of no one alive who was ever able to sit through the entire thing.
Isn’t it interesting that people of Christ take such care of and love these buildings so much. Having been built in the interest of commerce and pop culture at their gaudiest and most baroque they are now welcoming homes for people of deep religious spirituality.
Go figure!
What in the world could anybody see in the fourth and the fifth tiers of boxes of the Lyric from Warren’s picture of May 1 except the ceiling?
Though the theater itself seems to have been one of the loveliest to have ever existed in New York.
They did attempt to have an Easter show a couple of times but it was pretty pathetic. They included the Glory of Easter because I assume they still had the sets and costumes however they seemed to have lost the original lighting designs as the lighting was flat. When it was originally done the set seemed to glow with rich color.(I know because when I worked there for Robin and Marian I used to watch it again and again and I thought the lighting was amazing. Of course it was originally designed in the 30’s when they knew how to do these things.)
Millie couldn’t have played there until the spring of ‘67. Does that mean that SOM played from May '65 until '67 at the Virginia and then moved to the Shore? Was this all on reserved seats?
As I’ve written above on my first visit to AC GWTW was playing at the Virginia in the summer of '68. There was a billboard above for Mille which they hadn’t bothered to change.
When I was on the boardwalk in the summer of '76 the Virginia was still there but boarded up.
Does anybody have any interior and exterior photos of the Virginia?
Amazing that SOM was selling out everywhere in that summer of '65.
Also the fact that this current program is so aggressively unfamily friendly really makes me wonder what is going on in the minds of the people running the place.
You’d think at times they were programming midnight shows at the Angelika or the Cinema Village and not at one of the Loew’s Wonder Theaters.
After the Ford tribute things were looking up but now we’ve got more inscrutable programming for the Jersey. The theater really needs somebody else to come up with programs. The only one that makes sense is the Kramer and that’s at 3 in the afternoon!
I mean Brazil as a movie palace feature on a Sat night?!!!
It was supposed to get Mame but a production of that size seems no longer a propect on Broadway. Something big is coming in in the fall.
While we’re at it I hate that they got rid of the great facade and put up a slick plastic looking front. I can’t believe people are paid a ton of money to come up with these horrible new designs. Contemporary architecture not global warming will be the end of the human race.
Bway you must be very very young. Lucky you!
The Disneyfication was the worst thing to ever happen to midtown. If you actually think it was a good thing then may you live in a shopping mall for the rest of your life.
The first half of my list belongs to Koch and Giuliani.And I left out the Criterion and Bijou and the destruction of 42nd St as a neighborhood. Everything left after the slaughter of the 60’s. There was still a great theatrical neighborhood left. Now it is just a corporate cesspool. Sorry if this offends you. But if it does I am genuinely surprised.
Look at the constant political harrassment the Friends of the Loews is going through out in Jersey. There are many who would have said that building was in a ‘shambles and steep decline.'
Thank god for those volunteers out there showing what a great legacy was left to us and how much of it was destroyed.
If you want to refer to my anger at the destructions of our downtowns and the neglect of our national security a hissy fit so be it.
A great deal of architectural beauty has been destroyed out of sheer greed. And it doesn’t take a lefty to figure out that our national security was purposely ignored.
The Rivoli, Strand, Morosco Helen Hayes and Loew’s State, the old Met, the Capitol, the Paramount, Astor Hotel and Penn Station did not need to be torn down.
These were fully functional great NY buildings.
And I still stand by my statement on that loathsome triumvirate.
Koch and Giuliani destroyed mid town and had demolished all the remaining Times Square movie palaces. They are despicable in their stupidity and greed.
And as for leading the city after 9/11 what did Giuliani have to do? Everyone was stunned! For him and Bush it was nothing but a photo op testament to their incompetence and ingnorance of a terrorist threat. All three men may they rot.
Does anybody have a color photo of the Hawaii billboard? That was also pretty spectacular.
The Magnificent Men had moving parts.The planes looking as if they were bobbing in the air and legs spinning.
Thank you RobertR!
Just looking at the photo Warren posted in Feb of this year. Looks like the Brooklyn Paramount along with the Chi Paradise were the two most beautiful movie palaces ever built in the US. From the black and white photos I’ve seen of them to have actually been in them in their glory days almost seems like too much.
ErikH made me think of the time I was lost in my own thoughts walking up 5th Av when Rizzoli was still there when I suddenly look up in front of the store and right in front of me are DeNiro and Streep holding shopping bags of Christmas presents. This was nowhere near Christmas and if there is a movie out there with this scene of the two of them standing in front of Rizzoli’s I’m probably somehwere in the vicinity off camera.
I vaguely remember it but the truly great production of Porgy in the second half of the 20th Century was the Houston Grand Opera Company version which played at the Uris and then tranferred to the Mark Hellinger where I saw it with Clamma Dale and Donnie Ray Albert. One of the great musical performances of all time.
This is meant to be seen in a Broadway house. Not at the Music Hall and not at the Met.
Can anybody tell me who visited this theater during its roadshow 70mm heyday if there was a flat screen in the proscenium or if there was a curved screen in front of it.
Why would watching Susan Sarandon bathe her breasts with lemons be melancholy? I think it would be kind of sensational and inspiring.
Does anyone know how much of the original decor as pictured in Warren’s photos from January made it to the 50’s before the house was redesigned for Cinerama?
But now you can see Streisand at the Garden for $1,800.
These are the good old days!
That automat had a very elegant facade which was covered over when they turned it into a Burger King. It is on the cover of a Carole King album and above the facade is a billboard for Sunflower which played at the Hall in the fall of ‘70 which was obviously when the album cover was designed.
Does anybody know the name of the King album?
But I don’t think it was either of these. It was directly by the Hall(I think.)Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me-this was in ‘66.
You want me to get started Vito?
By the way Ed and klass discuss H and H but wasn’t there a Howard Johnson’s right by the Hall. Does anyone know where it was exactly?My mother took my sister and me there after my first visit to the Hall.
klass
Molly Brown was a summer movie. The Easter film was Henry Orient-another of those bizarre mid 60’s choices of what the Hall considered a holiday film for the entire family. The Christmas film that year was Father Goose and I know of no one alive who was ever able to sit through the entire thing.
Isn’t it interesting that people of Christ take such care of and love these buildings so much. Having been built in the interest of commerce and pop culture at their gaudiest and most baroque they are now welcoming homes for people of deep religious spirituality.
Go figure!
To BOBill.
I’d go to see Lassie Come Home with Autumn Album today if it were playing at the Music Hall.
What in the world could anybody see in the fourth and the fifth tiers of boxes of the Lyric from Warren’s picture of May 1 except the ceiling?
Though the theater itself seems to have been one of the loveliest to have ever existed in New York.
They did attempt to have an Easter show a couple of times but it was pretty pathetic. They included the Glory of Easter because I assume they still had the sets and costumes however they seemed to have lost the original lighting designs as the lighting was flat. When it was originally done the set seemed to glow with rich color.(I know because when I worked there for Robin and Marian I used to watch it again and again and I thought the lighting was amazing. Of course it was originally designed in the 30’s when they knew how to do these things.)
Millie couldn’t have played there until the spring of ‘67. Does that mean that SOM played from May '65 until '67 at the Virginia and then moved to the Shore? Was this all on reserved seats?
As I’ve written above on my first visit to AC GWTW was playing at the Virginia in the summer of '68. There was a billboard above for Mille which they hadn’t bothered to change.
When I was on the boardwalk in the summer of '76 the Virginia was still there but boarded up.
Does anybody have any interior and exterior photos of the Virginia?
Amazing that SOM was selling out everywhere in that summer of '65.
Also the fact that this current program is so aggressively unfamily friendly really makes me wonder what is going on in the minds of the people running the place.
You’d think at times they were programming midnight shows at the Angelika or the Cinema Village and not at one of the Loew’s Wonder Theaters.
After the Ford tribute things were looking up but now we’ve got more inscrutable programming for the Jersey. The theater really needs somebody else to come up with programs. The only one that makes sense is the Kramer and that’s at 3 in the afternoon!
I mean Brazil as a movie palace feature on a Sat night?!!!