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Racing Back 50 Years to June 19th, 1969
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The original New York roadshow engagement opened almost ten years earlier, at Loew’s State in November, 1959.
I wonder how Ben-Hur did on its second go-round as a reserved seat attraction. (Wasn’t this rather unusual? The only other example I remember is Gone with the Wind).
This house switched from movies and the occasional concert booking to legitimate fare in 1966 with Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity, running over 600 performances.
Joel Grey in George M! ran here a year, closing in April 1969.
Jimmy Roselli and Pat Cooper were booked from May 2nd until ?, and then in June 1969, movies were back at the Palace (well, at least this one movie, Ben-Hur), and there was not another theatrical booking here until May 1970, when Lauren Bacall in Applause opened for a long run.
I wonder how long the Ben-Hur roadshow played here.
The “BEN-HUR” 1969 re-release at the Palace ran for a mere nine weeks.