Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place
24 Patriot Place,
Foxborough,
MA
02035
24 Patriot Place,
Foxborough,
MA
02035
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This opened on August 8th, 2008. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
Sowcase Live is still open and thriving with good entertainment. Right next to Showcase Cinemas and close to the CBS SCene.
There is a conflicting claim about the design of this theater. Two photos of the Patriot Place Showcase Cinemas De Lux appears on the web site of the Philadelphia architectural firm SPG3. A brief biography of architect Irving Shapiro (the S in SPG3) says this about the firm’s relationship to National Amusements:
Apparently, SPG3 designed all of National Amusements' Cinema De Lux projects, even when the larger developments of which they were a part, such as Patriot Place, were designed by other firms, such as Arrowstreet. Arrowstreet did design a number of projects for Hoyts America, though, and SPG3 has designed some theaters for other chains.The biography also mentions the firm’s earlier connection to General Cinema:
According to Architect, the magazine of the AIA, the entire Patriot Place complex, including the cinema, was designed by the Boston architectural firm Arrowstreet, Inc.
Arrowstreet designed several multiplexes for Hoyts America from the mid-1990s until 2003, when most of that circuit’s locations were sold to Regal Entertainment.
According to Boston Gerald, Showcase Live had a hard time with competion from CT casinos, Boston & Sputh Shore Music Circus.
Showcase Live! has announced that it will be closing on December 31st. No explanation was given. The Boston Globe reported that musicians received an e-mail canceling all bookings after Dec. 31 and asking if they would like to reschedule their dates before the end of the year.
Next to the Cinema, to the left, is Showcase Live!, a concert venue with a capacity of, (I think), 1,200.