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In 1964, The Beatles were on top of the world: sold-out world tours, record-breaking album sales, global TV audiences, unparalleled press coverage, and the devotion of thousands of screaming girls everywhere they went. Nobody—least of all the band itself—imagined they ... read more
A Hard Day’s Night
1964 | G | Comedy, Musical | d. Richard Lester
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

Arts Festival Plaza
Friday, Aug 7 at 09:00 PM
Digital

35th Anniversary Screening
Signature Classic

“Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!”…to 1930’s Berlin, a time of political unrest and economic hardship. However, amidst the chaos and distress, there is one place people can go to forget their problems - the Kit Kat Club.

It is ... read more
Cabaret
With Special Guest Michael York
Sponsored by
1972 | PG | Musical, Romance | d. Bob Fosse
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm

Signature Classic

A flying British nanny changes the lives of two children, largely ignored by their disciplinarian banker father and loving but distracted suffragette mother. Aloof but charming, Mary Poppins, with or without jack of all trades Bert, takes the Banks kids ... read more
Mary Poppins (Sing-A-Long)
1964 | G | Family, Musical | d. Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm

45th Anniversary Screening
Signature Classic

A flying British nanny changes the lives of two children, largely ignored by their disciplinarian banker father and loving but distracted suffragette mother. Aloof but charming, Mary Poppins, with or without jack of all trades Bert, takes the Banks kids ... read more
Mary Poppins (Sing-A-Long)
Sponsored by
1964 | G | Family, Musical | d. Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm

45th Anniversary Screening

You’re lucky, he’s lucky, I’m lucky, we’re all lucky to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show on the big screen! The quintessential cult classic is a treat regardless of whether it’s your first or hundredth viewing.

Brad Majors (Barry ... read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 | R | Comedy, Musical | d. Jim Sharman
Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien

Arts Festival Plaza
Friday, Aug 14 at 09:00 PM
Digital

Dress the part!

From RKO Radio Pictures comes one of the most delightful and entertaining song and dance extravaganzas among the many memorable film teamings of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire plays Jerry Travers, a dancer who falls hard for Ginger’s ... read more
Top Hat
1935 | Not Rated | Comedy, Musical | d. Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 9 at 03:00 PM
Archival 35mm

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at their peak!
Signature Classic

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets an urban retelling in this stylish film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about two lovers caught between rival street gangs on Manhattan’s west side in the 1950s. Natalie Wood plays Maria, the young ... read more
West Side Story
1961 | Not Rated | Musical, Romance | d. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 10 at 07:00 PM
35mm


After director Mel Stuart’s 10-year-old daughter read the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), she begged her dad to make it into a movie. Thus was born Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl wrote ... read more
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Sponsored by Patricia and J.L. Jay
1971 | G | Family, Musical | d. Mel Stuart
Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum

Philanthropy Theatre
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 01:30 PM
Digital