Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center
1 School Street,
Foxborough,
MA
02035
1 School Street,
Foxborough,
MA
02035
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Now named “Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center”.
Hello! We are under new management and very excited to be bringing back our core mission – performing arts and movies for the regional Foxborough, Massachusetts community! We are building our slate and looking forward to being part of the community once again –
The Orpheum in Foxboro is listed in the 1927 Film Daily yearbook as having 300 seats and open 3 days per week.
The Orpheum continues to host a variety of entertainments. During Christmas week there will be 2 different children’s shows on stage, and from Dec. 26 – 28 will run the annual Three Stooges film festival.
For the Halloween season 2008 the Orpheum has fitted itself out as a “haunted theater” which patrons can roam through, including the backstage area.
Today in history shown 1978 House Calls 7:00-9:00 lol Admission only $1.50 phone 543-5612 wow ! how time flies
The MGM Theatre Photograph and Report form for the Orpheum in Foxborough has a photo taken in May 1941. Unlike most of the facade photos in these Reports, the photographer stood about 100 yards away, for some reason. The address is given as “Rockhill Street”. The Report states that the theatre is not a MGM customer; but in the next line states that it has been presenting MGM product for over 10 years. It states that the theatre is over 15 years old; that it is in Good condition, and has 418 seats on the main floor and 113 in the balcony, total: 531 seats. A competing theatre is the Mansfield Theatre in Mansfield, and the 1940 population of Foxboro was 6,300.
I’m glad that you made it out to the Foxboro theatre; you should have stopped by the booth! A former projectionist who had worked at the Orpheum years ago was visiting that night and enjoyed seeing the venue in its present form.
(I should point out here that the cause of Friday’s brief show interruption—a clogged fan which tripped a thermal sensor in the lamphouse power supply—was corrected on Saturday afternoon.)
Here is one of the photos I took last night before seeing Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room. The Orpheum is a 32 minute drive from where I live. The village common across from the theatre is very pleasant.
I was surprised to see the Orpheum reappear in today’s Boston Globe movie listings, after many years' absence. Turns out they are having a festival of recent documentaries each weekend in July.
It also appears that they are now using the name ‘Orpheum Theatre’, not ‘Foxborough Regional Center for the Performing Arts’.
As far as I know, they’re still doing it.
Is the Monty Python festival still going to happen? They’ve taken it off their web site.
Yes, they still have film capability (a single Century projector with xenon and the “wonderful” Super Platter). The Three Stooges show (which they do every year) always does good business. In the last year or two, they have shown the Stooges program, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and a few other titles that I have forgotten. They were scheduled to show Ferris Bueller last year, but the print did not arrive due to a shipping mishap.
(I will be in the booth for the Monty Python shows if anyone wants to stop by.)
Looks like they still show a few old movies here, between the live productions. The 2005 schedule includes the first Harry Potter movie in February, a Monty Python festival in April, an unnmaed “family movie” later in April, and a Three Stooges festival after Christmas.
As a single screen movie theatre the Orphuem Theatre seated 531 people.