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The Chicago Theatre is being sold to Madison Square Garden. At least that's what Chris Jones is saying. According to the article, Madison Square Garden Entertainment has agreed to purchase the downtown landmark and is just waiting for a few formalities — like the City signing off on the sale — before closing the deal.
MSGE owns — duh — Madison Square Garden, plus Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theater in NY. It's an arm of Cablevision, the nation's fifth-largest cable provider, and owner of AMC, IFC, We TV and Clearview Cinemas. We're loathe to start beating the Big Media Companies Eat Imagination And Crap Money drum and all, but man, there's something really unsavory about this. The current owners, Theatre Dreams Chicago, LLC (worst ... name ... ever), are selling, Jones says, because they "found it hard to compete with the subscription and programming muscle of Broadway in Chicago, a joint venture by the Nederlander Organization and Live Nation that operates the nearby Oriental Theatre, the La Salle Bank Theatre and the Cadillac Palace Theatre."
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I guess the anti-Macy's people can just walk a bit to the north and protest this as well.
I for one am excited to get some new blood into this place. Theatre Dreams stepped it up a notch, but MSG will take it to the treuly professional level. Their venues in NYC are all extremely well run and well maintained.
The Chicago Theater needs some serious help in the bathroom department, and the bar department. Neither of which are well maintained or run efficiently. Hopefully these guys can bring their experience to the table and make that happen. There also needs to be some sort of change to the entrance security procedures. They vary so drastically from one show to the next.
I hope they rename it and tear down that old, ugly eyesore of a marquee.
Madison Square Garden West?
"I hope they rename it and tear down that old, ugly eyesore of a marquee."
is that flame bait? cause i think it's flame bait.
Anyway, yeah I have nothing really to say about this.
Actually, it was just a feeble attempt at Macy's-esque humor.
I remember the old Chicago Theatre
back in the day when downtown wasn't all white washed.
They use to show double features on Saturday, Kung Fu and the latest horror movies, like Bruce Lee Battles Five Hundred Kun Fu Zombies and The Shinning. Yea, picture a young Spook sneaking in cause back in the day you had to be accompanied by a “guarding” if you were under 18.
During the Kun Fu picture people would be cracking jokes, smoking weed and drinking
beer they smuggled in. During the Kun Fu movies which were always shown first the bigger boys shot craps in the bathroom.
In the darkness of the theater, I’d sit Indian style afraid my Chuck Taylors would get stuck to the floor long enough to slow my reaction to a an attack from the rats that scampered around on the dark floor
Yeah, the good old days, right?