I saw “My Own Private Idaho” there its opening day. It was just a TAD out of focus (meaning less detectable to the disinterested eye). I went out in the lobby to complain and one of the (young) staffers took a look and saw nothing wrong. So I told him/her to have the projectionist check it anyway, a request met by rolled eyes. It never went into sharp focus UNTIL the end credits began. Guess it was already a platter house. I later found out that the Plaza projectionist was doubling at the Ziegfeld as well.
Every time I attend a dance performance at the Joyce I always think of the Elgin. Among the many movies I saw there I will always most strongly associate this theater with the first time I saw “El Topo.” Never saw ‘Rocky Horror" there, having burnt out on that experience at the 8th St,. Playhouse.
I worked with the Off Broadway production of “MacBird!” It ran from February 1967 to January of 1978. We closed our run at the Garrick after first playing the Village Gate (Elizabethan 3-quarter stage), then moving across the street to Circle in the Square (extreme thrust stage). We never left Bleecker St., the Garrick being one block east from our first two theaters, in the same block as the Bleecker St. Cinema. The Garrick was a narrow (“bowling alley”) proscenium house that had ceased playing films. We may have been the last show there.
I saw “My Own Private Idaho” there its opening day. It was just a TAD out of focus (meaning less detectable to the disinterested eye). I went out in the lobby to complain and one of the (young) staffers took a look and saw nothing wrong. So I told him/her to have the projectionist check it anyway, a request met by rolled eyes. It never went into sharp focus UNTIL the end credits began. Guess it was already a platter house. I later found out that the Plaza projectionist was doubling at the Ziegfeld as well.
Every time I attend a dance performance at the Joyce I always think of the Elgin. Among the many movies I saw there I will always most strongly associate this theater with the first time I saw “El Topo.” Never saw ‘Rocky Horror" there, having burnt out on that experience at the 8th St,. Playhouse.
I worked with the Off Broadway production of “MacBird!” It ran from February 1967 to January of 1978. We closed our run at the Garrick after first playing the Village Gate (Elizabethan 3-quarter stage), then moving across the street to Circle in the Square (extreme thrust stage). We never left Bleecker St., the Garrick being one block east from our first two theaters, in the same block as the Bleecker St. Cinema. The Garrick was a narrow (“bowling alley”) proscenium house that had ceased playing films. We may have been the last show there.