Okay, if movie theaters are included...
Back before home video came in, there used to be a lot of "revival theaters", movie theaters that would show classic films like "Casablanca" and Marx Bros. movies, and they'd actually show "midnight movies" (cult films, not porn) for a late show. So one time I went to see "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) at such a movie theater, and the audience REALLY got into it! They laughed at all the old stuff, they applauded when Judy finished singing "Over the Rainbow", and they booed and hissed when the wicked witch came on! That got to be the thing, for the whole showing, that audience HISSED whenever the witch came on, and then laughed, and it became an impromptu audience participation thing, which I've never seen repeated.
Perhaps it was because that movie theater had a bar.
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sslssg (30264)
10 months ago
My theatre is a performance space as well as a movie theatre, and we have a Casablanca curse. We won't show it anymore. We tried three years in a row and each year had an emergency. The first year was a lightning strike, the second year a goose crashed into the power box on the theatre, and the third year there was a fire near by and we had to evacuate the park. So yeah. No more Casablanca.
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Otter (24464)
10 months ago
You still have a revival theater in your town? It makes me happy to hear that, I thought they were all gone!
I really loved that old theater where the audience hissed at the Wicked Witch of the West, but it died some time around 1990. Home VCRs killed almost all of the revival theaters.
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sslssg (30264)
10 months ago
I work at a living history museum, and the theatre that I work at is a replica of a theatre from 1918. We even have rumble seats. We just had work done so aren't currently showing films, but we have 2 other theatres in the city which show all types of movies, including old ones.
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Otter (24464)
10 months ago
That sounds rather lovely, and may I ask what a theater rumble seat is? I thought they were just something you found in old cars!
Working at a living history museum sounds wonderful, even enviable, although I imagine it leads to a feeling that your work is underappreciated a lot of the time.
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sslssg (30264)
10 months ago
I guess they are technically called seat rumblers. They aren't under every seat, but we have this like 4d experience show that was about the history of the area and the seats rumbled at certain parts in that. We also use them in some of the live shows. It's fun.
I don't really feel underappreciated as I'm in the entertainment department. We have a pretty cool customer experience department which brings in new events all the time. We have an outdoor escape room happening currently which is pretty fun, and we do a huge Halloween event as well. I do like what I do.
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Otter (24464)
10 months ago
That sound fantastic! And probably a long way from me, I'm sure I would have heard about a local museum that cool.
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sslssg (30264)
10 months ago
We have had a bunch of movies and tv shows filmed at my work as well. Our steam train was just the filming location for a new movie.
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Otter (24464)
10 months ago
You definitely aren't in northern California, where I live. I'd have heard.
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sslssg (30264)
10 months ago
Much further north. :)
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Otter (24464)
10 months ago
I won't ask where, and advise you not to say so. There are some real crazies and huge assholes on this forum, it wouldn't do to let your location be known.
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