Sutton Theater
205 E. 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10022
205 E. 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10022
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bigjoe59 - Good call with the arthouse roadshow engagements. One trivial point: My memory is that Taming of the Shrew at the Coronet was ‘Reserved Performance’ (rather than Reserved Seat). But I guess that still qualifies as a ‘roadshow.’ And at the Trans-Lux East: Marat/Sade (reserved performance) and Last Tango in Paris (Reserved Seat)
Please update, became a twin on June 15, 1990 Sutton 1 250 seats and Sutton 2 350 seats Theatre closed September 10, 2004 Grand Opening ad as twin in photos section
“THE BLUE MAX” in the photo section.
Vindanpar, “YOUNG WINSTON” was real classic Roadshow reserved seats at the Columbia.
“The Last Remake of Beau Geste” (7-1-77) “High Anxiety” (1-4-78)
Didn’t Young Winston play reserved seats at the Columbia twin? Or was it reserved performances?
This is from Irwin Winkler’s book “A Life in Movies” (2019):
We opened in New York on November 13, 1980, at The Sutton on Fifty-Seventh Street. Marty and I stood in the back of the theater and were dismayed by the bad sound. I complained to the manager, who angrily informed me that he had bought six new speakers at $49 each at Radio Shack just for “Raging Bull.” We, of course, had spent about a million dollars to get the sound right.
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to NYer thanks for the info.
also the Sutton wasn’t the only East Side “art house”
to host a roadshow engagement. the Coronet had The Taming
of the Shrew and the Fine Arts has three-A Man for All
Seasons, The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Trojan
Women.
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the last several years of the theater’s life it ran as a twin. to which- what was the last film to play it as a single screen theater?
25 years ago today the nightmare before Xmas made its new york city debut here before expanding wide.
Was in this theater in its latter days and found it hard to believe movies like The Blue Max and Gigi(after moving from the Royale reserved seat engagement) had prestigious runs here rather than in more spacious theaters in Times Square. Not only dumpy but too small for these kinds of films
The one movie I remember seeing here was a very strange little Isabelle Huppert number. She was in love with a too young hockey player and did unmentionable things to her body with a razorblade. Bad in the way only a French film can be bad.
The only movie I saw here was the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again in 1987. I don’t remember much, other than it was a big single screen cinema with comfortable seating and a screen. My sister and I arrived late, just as the beginning credits were finished rolling. It was the day after Thanksgiving, I think, and we’d just seen Dirty Dancing, the second time for both of us, at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village. I wish time travel was possible. I’d go back to the days when theaters like this one were open and see anything that was playing.
I just saw this theater in the movie The Devil’s Advocate. Sad it’s not there anymore.
“The Rocketeer” showed at the Sutton 2 in 70mm 6-Track Dolby Stereo SR beginning on Friday June 21, 1991 (the film’s nationwide release date).
It opened at the Coronet during the newspaper strike. “A WEDDING” was showing here at the time.
OK I am still at this. Did the Nicholson film “Goin' South” open here in ‘78? Hoping AlA or someone else can tell me.
haha I love THE NUDE BOMB
Al you are the Guru of Manhattan theatres, thank you.
“The Nude Bomb” opened at the Gemini in 1980.
Looking for some help. Does anyone know if the Get Smart movie “The Nude Bomb” premiered here in 1979? I’m pretty sure I was at the Sutton once , and this is one of the few films where I don’t recall which Manhattan theatre I saw it in. I tried the NY Times review archive but couldn’t come up with anything.
Let’s not forget the exclusive engagement of newly restored and reissued Marx Brothers classic, “Animal Crackers” in 1974 or so.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sicilian Clan, The 3 Stooges Review,Network,Cuckoo’s Nest, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety gives you some indication of the quality of the bookings this theatre got in first run
This was a small issue at the Sutton as it didn’t even have a concession stand until the eighties.
Back in the 60’s — the theatre owners DID NOT clean the theatres that is why they could schedule manymore showings than today!!
THU25APR2013 There’s a shot of the Sutton towards the end of “The Devil’s Advocate” (to be precise, it’s 1 hour 56 minutes into the film).