Kings Theatre
1027 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11226
1027 Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11226
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Bruce1,
Is That’s Brooklyn only on on Tuesdays? Will they repeat those shows? I’ll happily pay postage and stock cost for a VHS tape yet, or better yet a DVD. If you know when/if they’ll be repeated, I’ll watch!
Isn’t there already a new play about Brooklyn?
What would you all think of putting in a show about Brooklyn if and when we reopen this theater? I am the writer who is writing one. I also haven’t heard a response from this page lately
Mine still will but I wasn’t sure whether I could receive it on my computer. It does not have realtime player.
I thought that some of you would have watched the last two episodes of ‘That’s Brooklyn’ that featured the Loew’s Kings, but unfortunately nobody seems to have watched!
What can I say? Based on your postings on this board, I thought the shows would be of interest.
My organization is trying to Save The Kings, I hope that your interest will continue to grow.
Bruce1
Bruce1 just wrote me that the main reason they may not be letting people into the theater is insurance. I apologize if I offended anybody on this page. However, the asbestos study has been completed, and that is apparently not a problem.
According to Bruce1 the city plans to receive requests for proposals in April. That is when the city will let in perspective developers. Right now, I hope they find somebody.
Did anyone watch ‘That’s Brooklyn’ parts I and II on the Loew’s Kings?
Maybe one day they may tryout one of my shows (Although I have my doubts considering I’m newcomer)…Thanks Bruce One.
The architects/decorative designers used various styles of architecture in creating the Loew’s Kings and that is what I mean by the term: ‘indoor theme park’. The 2 main design elements borrow liberally from the Palace of Versaille and the Paris Opera House.
It was a performance venue in the days of vaudeville, where the orchestra either rose from the pit or was on stage behind the performer. Thus, the terms: ‘pit’ and ‘stage shows’. Under a plan by Save The Kings, it would return to it’s glory days and present LIVE concerts and possibly a try out venue for upcoming Broadway productions.
What exactly do you mean by indoor theme park? Wasn’t this supposed to be a performance venue?
Hi Gang, I’m just back from Disney World and have some news about the Loew’s Kings as an INDOOR Theme Park!
The owner, NYC Economic Development Corporation, not the Flatbush Redevelopment Corp, will issue their Request for Proposal on the theater in either April or May. In the meantime, Brooklyn Borough President’s Office has been asked to submit their recommendations for how RFP should read. I will be meeting with the BP’s people this week to help draft their response.
Bruce1
I was looking at a Los Angeles Tourism page. For those of you who don’t know, my family plans to visit that area. It seems Disney restored Hollywood’s El Capitan Theater, maybe they can do the same for ours. They run stage shows and movies there like it’s an old picture palace.
Furthermore, fund raising events have been held under the marquis of the theater. Has the theater fallen down? No, it hasn’t. In other words the building can be saved.
This was not a fund raising event, it was just an idea I had for when the Kings was opened.
I wrote trying to get the famous ushers of this theater in the description above. They said I should add it here. Not only did Barbra Streisand usher there, but so did Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone. Ben Vereen’s Mother worked there and he danced on the stage.
I think I shouldn’t have placed the addition on the B-Movie thing guys, sorry.
With modern projection and other things other theaters throughout the country can play the show live, or we can hook up with a theater somewhere else and share the show. I don’t normally consider the costs of my idea, I just throw them out.
Maybe I should add also, I am talking about 1940s and 1950s “B-Movies”. The fee would not be as large.
Another idea occured to me was a Christmas Show like at Radio City Music Hall except our own. We can make it a multi-media show with video screens beside the stage.
Getting DVDs is easy nowadays, but, sad to say, getting performance rights to them in a public place is not. The owner of each title must be tracked down and persuaded to give written permission to use the source of their property that they designate, usually for a very stiff fee! This is one reason that ‘vintage movies’ festivals seldom occur nowadays outside of non-profits for limited audiences.
Maybe I should add that the DVDs had a catalog with them, and that’s how I got the idea.
I thought of a great idea to bring to the Kings, and it may be profittable because of its silly nature, and some nostalgia. I call it the “Brooklyn begins with a B Movie Festival”. I bought some schlock “B-Movie” DVDs and it’s looks weird and fun what’s out there. Instead of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ we can present ‘Teenagers from Outer Space’. Then again, there are some great B-Movies, I saw Joan Crawford in ‘rain’ in there as well as some famous war movies. We pick twelve features and hold it over twelve consecutive days a year with a serial like one from the East Side Kids.
Thanks Bryan, will send again.
Thanks to Ken Roe for submitting further details about this fabulous theatre.
I did submit a full description and update for this page on November 15th after several members couldn’t understand why there wasn’t one. I even enclosed a personal picture of the exterior but for some reason Cinema Treasures won’t update the page listing or even respond to my 4 emails asking why……..
Dear Loew’s Kings fans:
Be sure and watch, ‘That’s Brooklyn’ starting next Tuesday at 11 AM and 7 PM
www.bcat.tv/bcat — for next 2 weeks, for 2 weeks only & only at REAL TIME.
When you get to the web site, Click ON Channel #3
Loew’s Kings Part I and Part II. These classic episodes were shot inside this old house approximately 11 years ago and you’re sure to enjoy.
In the meantime, I’ll be taking a few days off and then we can arrange our first meeting!
Regards to all,
Bruce1