Madison Theatre

149 W. Main Street,
Orange, VA 22960

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on January 28, 2025 at 5:55 am

Pitts Madison Theatre opens over in the Masonic Temple on October 22, 1931 with “My Personal Maid”. Pitts moved on as noted above in 1969 but the venue reopened September 18, 1970 under new operators, RC Theatres, with “The Boatniks” as the Madison Theatre. It closed permanently in 1977.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on March 16, 2018 at 4:09 pm

Boxoffice of February 16, 1970, said that Mid-Atlantic Theatres, new owners of the Pitts-Madison Theatre in Orange, Virginia, which had been in operation since 1936, had closed the house on December 31, 1969, due to lack of business. Mid-Atlantic planned extensive improvements at the Pitts Drive-In, which continued in operation on weekends.

R/C Theatres, of Randallstown, Maryland, had bought the sixteen remaining theaters in the Pitts chain in November, 1969. As far as I’ve been able to discover, Mid-Atlantic was a subsidiary of R/C.