Colonial Theater
247 Wanaque Avenue,
Pompton Lakes,
NJ
07442
247 Wanaque Avenue,
Pompton Lakes,
NJ
07442
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Additional Info
Functions: Community Center, Playhouse
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Cowdry's Playhouse
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News About This Theater
- Mar 31, 2011 — Moral hits rockbottom at the Colonial Twin!
- Feb 9, 2011 — Colonial Twin goes to the dogs!
- Dec 23, 2010 — The fall of the Colonial Twin Theater is documented in Reality Series.
- Oct 15, 2010 — Video shot at Colonial Theater nearly twenty years ago becomes a reality series!
Operating since 1913, this theater was twinned in the 1980’s, and showed movies until closing in 1996. It is now home to the Smiling Rhino Theatre. The theatre group occupies the second floor of the theatre, while the former orchestra seating area is now a community center.
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I watched two of the clips and can’t stomach any more. The owner should have hired people who cared.
The owner eventually did!
I saw a fantastic double feature here in the ‘70s: “Forbidden Planet” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”.
This theater is still listed as having two screens and 800 seats. Not true. The fact is, this theater showed it’s last movie back in 1996…15 years ago! It has only one small stage upstairs that now showcases live theater, (The Smiling Rhino Theater). The downstairs theater was totally gutted back in the mid/late 90’s and has since been used as a teen community center. No screens…no movies…The Colonial, no more!
I saw “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at The Colonial back in the mid ‘80s.
In 1974 Colonial had Ape’s Fest. This was the entire Planet Of The Apes franchise in one sitting.
I remember seeing The Day of the Jackal,The Helstrom Chronicles and Fiddler on the Roof while it was still a single screen theatre
yes i was working there at that time ,the theater billed the show “see all the planet of the apes films"Go ape for a day!i loved that theater i have been showing films ever since.i use to do all the week end midnight shows also.the very first film i showed there was song of the south.i went to lakeland during the week and worked the colonial on the week ends.
Twinned in June 1983, closed on October 9, 1997 with “In & Out” in Screen 1 and “Game” in Screen 2.
Ironic that the last movie to play at the Colonial Twin in Pompton Lakes was In & Out because it was actually filmed in Pompton Lakes High School!!!
Here’s a piece of Colonial Twin history! (Albeit a crazy piece!)
Aside from being funny, Colonial Twin Follies also represents the most extensive collection of footage captured in the historic theater. The footage was taken 80 years after its doors opened in 1913, and just 4 short years before it closed its doors for good in 1997.
www.youtube.com/@TheColonialTwinFollies
In the summer of 1993, the crew of a tiny movie theater in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey videotaped a simple little birthday greeting to their friend and former colleague, Glenn. Little did they know, nearly twenty years after it was made, that same video would resurface as a reality series!
Witness their hilarious hijinks, their madcap antics, and the events that unfold in this uniquely original, wacky and whimsical, once-in-a-lifetime reality series, throughout which the crew attempts to achieve their ultimate goal: A birthday greeting to Glenn from the neighborhood cross-dresser, Roger!
Be sure to SUBSCRIBE and get notified when each episode of COLONIAL TWIN FOLLIES premieres!
www.youtube.com/@TheColonialTwinFollies