Sunday, December 15 | Doors & Book Swap: 2:00pm | Pre-Show Caroling: 2:30pm | Screening: 3:00pm | $5 Tickets
In 19th century Massachusetts, while the March sisters – Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth – enter the threshold of womanhood, they go through many ups and downs in life and endeavor to make important decisions that can affect their future.
We continue to honor our past as a vaudeville house with live entertainment before the main feature on the big screen. This holiday season screening of Little Women (2019) will include pre-show caroling on stage, led by the talented young performers of Statement Arts, and a medley of songs from the musical version of the story, performed by Ridgefield High School thespians who mounted the show earlier this year.
Also before the main feature, we will honor the literary roots of Little Women with a “book swap” in the Grand Foyer. In collaboration with Word Up Community Bookshop, we encourage you to contribute gently loved books and take home new reads. Please bring a book if you wish to participate.
DETAILS
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Written by Greta Gerwig and Louisa May Alcott. The movie runtime is 2 hours and 15 minutes, Rated PG, and will be screened on DCP.
Little Women (2019) continues the Movies at the Palace Season of Friendship. We chose that theme after asking ourselves what we need most to get through 2024. Our supporters and fans helped us select the movies in the series, including Rebel Without a Cause, The Producers (1967), Duck Soup, Hidden Figures, Finding Nemo, Thelma & Louise, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Please note: The Season of Friendship is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.
UNITED PALACE HISTORY
The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theatre and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theatres in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theatre ended in April 1969 with a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (“In the Heights” and “Halftime” as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (“It’s A Wonderful Life”), to community favorites (the documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom” about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).
Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.
One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of “The Godfather,” described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn’t get any better.”
